FOCUS

Framework 64.1 now available

The Spring 2023 issue of Framework, featuring the dossier Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Centenary Retrospective: Film Culture in Action; the essay “Archival Film Practice Behind Off Frame: Unravelling Cinematic Solidarities in the Palestinian Struggle for Liberation”; and more

LATEST Archives

Framework is interested in the possibilities of what an academic journal can do. In Focus, Framework focuses, periodically, on a particular subject and uses its platform, currently, as a way to add to the public conversations around prison and prejudice, and the avant-garde.

 

Prison USA

American imprisonment and incarceration’s consequences and realities, as topics, have begun to emerge, in the last few years, in the public dialogue and have become recognized increasingly as complicated and urgent. Equally, the social fascination with crime and punishment as a form of entertainment continues, perhaps more than ever. 

Framework started this section, called PRISON USA, in 2016 in a desire to add to the public conversation about the reality of prison and of social justice, by compiling eclectic information that comes from both spheres, divided here as REAL and RENDITION. These sections, obviously, don’t divide easily and the intention is to offer more routes to more ideas about how we, as a nation, see prison and how we incorporate its existence.

 

PREJUDICE NOW

In PREJUDICE NOW, started in 2016, Framework invites a guest columnist to write a piece, of any length, choosing a film or television program that has come out within the last year, and to discuss it in terms of how her or his own prejudice is provoked or to examine a film or program in terms of how prejudice appears in it.

 

 

AUDIO-VISUAL

Framework's AUDIO-VISUAL section features curated programs, avant-garde films, streaming, live symposiums, interviews, and salons.

 

About Framework

  • FRAMEWORK offers radical approaches to the complexities of today’s film and media, with special interests in Politics, Prejudice & Feminism.

  • Framework has no single ideology but rather seeks to publish work from original thinkers in the forefront of new cultural and political perspectives, and follows all aspects of film and media, in any genre or type.

  • Framework aims to interface academic focus with the current cultural and political world as it unfolds day to day.

  • Framework welcomes contributions from writers, scholars, critics, and practitioners from around the world, and invites the submission of articles, interviews, reviews, dossiers, art projects and think pieces.

  • FRAMEWORK: The Journal of Cinema and Media is a peer-reviewed, international journal
    published bi-annually by Wayne State University Press.