Cinematheque Press

A new press!

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Cinematheque, a new independent literary imprint located in Chicago, is devoted to publishing in the spaces where text, art, and film converge. The titles we produce engage directly with the visual, explore the complexities of narrative, and eschew the conventional limits of literary texts.

Our focus is as much about quality writing as it is about beautiful craftsmanship. Cinematheque is seeking well-crafted, academic writing on or about film for its website section, Cinema Queue. Particular interests of Cinematheque include the scholarship of Gilles Deleuze, Jean Mitry, and Christian Metz; Pasolini’s ideas on the free indirect subjective; publications such as Critical Inquiry, Film Quarterly, and Cahiers du Cinéma; perception, camera consciousness, and the Gaze; adaptations, parodies, and adaptations of adaptations; European and world cinema of the 1950s, 60s, & 70s; classic and contemporary noir; and the “new” Western. Th is is not, however, a comprehensive list of topics or possibilities Cinematheque will consider. Our inquisitiveness is vast, and we are eager to explore new scholarship. Cinematheque invites PhD, MA, and MFA students from disciplines as wide-ranging as Film Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Philosophy, Art, History, French, and other programs to submit essays to the press. Some essays for Cinema Queue will always be featured on the Cinematheque Press website, but the end goal is to publish Cinema Queue as a bi-annual print journal. Cinema Queue aims to be the voice of the next generation of film scholars.

Guidelines & Contact
• Submit: essays, parts of theses, chapters from dissertations
• Format: Chicago (preferred) or MLA
• Length: 10–20 pgs, double-spaced
Send essays in .doc or .rtf file to Nate at cq (AT) cinemathequepress.com