[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies is the first academic journal of its kind. The open peer-reviewed journal encourages scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study—moving images and sounds—and publishes work that contributes to both the knowledge of film and media studies and the videographic form. The journal was awarded the 2015 Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship of Distinction by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Established in 2014 as a project of MediaCommons and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (then known as Cinema Journal), as of 2024, [in]Transition is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and owned by SCMS.
Welcome to [in]Transition’s first issue of 2025, 12.1. This issue features eight peer-reviewed videographic work that focus on a variety of film and moving image studies topics: gestures and gender dynamics in classical Hollywood cinema; the representation of male mental health and working-class masculinity in Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric; the portrayal of landscape and its symbolic value in contemporary Galician cinema; the Chinese series The Untamed and transcultural fandom; trains as a recurring motif in the work of Hideaki Anno; videotapes as precarious and palimpsestic memory devices; the visual and aural aspects in the representation of women in New Turkish Cinema; the musical affect of Irish history films and the influential work of the composer Seán Ó Riada.
As usual, we would like to remind you that our journal welcomes new submissions.
We would also like to take a moment to thank all of our peer reviewers. We appreciate their hard work and constructive feedback. That being said, we would also eagerly welcome new reviewers. If you are interested in reviewing for our journal, please contact us.
Chiara Grizzaffi, Drew Morton and Alan O'Leary, co-editors
Kevin Ferguson and Kathleen Loock, production editors
Jason Mittell, journal manager
Research Articles
Many Cantonas: Mental Health and the "Invisible Companion" in Looking for Eric (2009)
David Martin-Jones
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Blurring the Boundaries: Galician Cinematic Landscape as a Transnational Character
Eva Álvarez-Vázquez
2025-03-23 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025
On the Art of Affective Repetition: Fan Video & The Untamed
Louisa Stein
2025-03-23 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025
Phantom Rides: Trains in the Work of Hideaki Anno
River Seager
2025-03-23 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025
Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes
Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
2025-03-23 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025
Scoring Irish History: The Ó Riada Effect
Steven S Sehman and Niall Ó Murchú
2025-03-23 Volume 12 • Issue 1 • 2025
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