Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Issue 31, Pandemic Documentary. Now Available Online.

Issue 31 of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media on “Pandemic Documentary”. Edited by Oliver Brett and Rhiannon Harries, the issue explores pandemic documentaries through the idea of “cramped space” (Deleuze and Guattari),

asking what forms documentary might take when movement is restricted and resources are limited, including reduced access to subjects. Through a range of articles, reflections, and video essays, the issue engages with the question how documentary can at once preserve lived experience, mobilise political response, and reconfigure its own conception and production under crisis conditions.

Alphaville is a diamond open-access journal and charges no fees to its authors or readers.

 

We are delighted to announce publication of issue 31 of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media on “Pandemic Documentary”. Edited by Oliver Brett and Rhiannon Harries, the issue explores pandemic documentaries through the idea of “cramped space” (Deleuze and Guattari), asking what forms documentary might take when movement is restricted and resources are limited, including reduced access to subjects. Through a range of articles, reflections, and video essays, the issue engages with the question how documentary can at once preserve lived experience, mobilise political response, and reconfigure its own conception and production under crisis conditions.

Alphaville is a diamond open-access journal and charges no fees to its authors or readers.

 

Issue 31 – https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31

Editorial

Pandemic Documentary: Negotiating “Cramped Space”

by Oliver Brett and Rhiannon Harries, Issue Editors
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.00

Pandemic Documentary and the Aesthetics of Crisis

Case Study

Seeing the Opioid Epidemic through COVID-19: Ambivalent Aesthetics in

The Family Statement (2023)

by Rhiannon Harries

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.01

Articles

Pandemic Documentary and Graphic Narrative: Race, Disability, and the Chromatic Language of In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of Pandemic

by Ruth Maxey

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.02

Allegories of Pandemic Governance: Comedy, Cramped Space, and National Imaginaries in European Cinema

by Oliver Brett

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.03

Frames of Isolation: Recording Memory and Loss in Mati Diop’s In My Room

by Brittany Bernard

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.04

The Harold Scott Story: Remembering and Documenting an Activist, Educator, Thirty-five-year HIV/AIDS Survivor (Video Essay)

by Amy Bertram

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.05

Memories of COVID-19 by Thai Film Crews: Encountering and Navigating Film Sets (Not) as Cramped Spaces (Video Essay)

by Wikanda Promkhuntong and Natthanun Tiammek

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.06

Critical Practice: Cramped Methods

“Mandatory Training”, Online Teaching, and Dialectical Space

by Patrick Tarrant

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.07

Making Dreams of Safety—A Series of Online Videos

by Richard Whitby

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.08

Dream Workers: A Filmmaking Journey During the Pandemic (Video Essay)

by Pinar Fontini

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.09

 

Book Reviews
Edited by Jill Murphy

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach, by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer

Reviewed by Martin Bubanović

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.10

Filmmaking in Academia: Practice Research for Filmmakers, by Agata Lulkowska Reviewed by Hande Çayir

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.11

Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy and the Kubrickian Consciousness, by D. Harlan Wilson

Reviewed by Jarvis Curry

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.12

Towards a Film Theory From Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-up, by Jiří Anger

Reviewed by Chiara Grizzaffi

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.13

Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, by Gregory A. Waller

Reviewed by Simon Hewitt

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.14

The Intellect Handbook of Documentary, edited by Kate Nash and Deane Williams Reviewed by Dina Iordanova

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.15

The Postmodern Slasher Film, by Steve Jones

Reviewed by Shahbaz Khayambashi

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.16

Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film, by Tessa Laird

Reviewed by Botagoz Koilybayeva

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.17

Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries, by John Thornton Caldwell

Reviewed by Jessie Krahn

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.18

The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis, by Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon

Reviewed by Ciara Moloney

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.19

UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity, edited by Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall

Reviewed by Diana Ortega Martín

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.20

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair, by Alexandra Seros

Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher Woodward

https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.21

 

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media

Open access, peer reviewed

Published in the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork

https://www.alphavillejournal.com