Film International

Film International is a quarterly academic journal (with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering film studies. Established in 1973 (in Swedish), Film International became an English-language journal in 2003. It is published by Intellect Ltd. and presents critical, historical, and theoretical essays on film, television, and moving image studies, including book reviews, interviews, and coverage of film festivals around the world. It regularly features film reviews, interviews with directors, actors, and cinematographers, as well as covering national cinemas on a country-by-country basis. The content ranges throughout topics of the moving image, from art cinema, foreign films, genre works. and music videos, like Beyonce's Lemonade.

Film International
DisciplineFilm studies
LanguageEnglish
Edited byMatthew Sorrento, Tom Ue
Publication details
History1973–present
Publisher
Intellect Ltd.
FrequencyQuarterly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Film Int.
Indexing
ISSN1651-6826 (print)
2040-3801 (web)
OCLC no.803316091
Links

The editor-in-chief is Matthew Sorrento and the co-editor is Tom Ue. The image editor is Jonathan Monovich. The contributing editors are Jessica Baxter, Jacob Mertens, Liza Palmer, Yun-hua Chen, Christopher Sharrett, Jeremy Carr, Robert K. Lightning, George Toles, Tony Williams, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.

Andre Gregory has described the journal as "of enormous interest to anyone who is passionate about film," while Robert Pulcini has commented that FilmInt offers "a level of writing about film that is unfortunately all too rare these days." Works from the journal have been adapted in longer studies by top scholars and authors, including Toles, Carl Freedman, Carol Vernallis, and Murray Pomerance. David Hudson of The Criterion Collection regards the journal as a standout in book reviewing. Groundbreaking critic Robin Wood was a longtime contributor.

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