Online ISSN: 2604-9821
Comparative Cinema ISSN 2604-9821 (formerly Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, ISSN 2014-8933) is a biannual publication. Published by the Center for Aesthetic Research on Audiovisual Media (CINEMA) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), the journal specializes in the study of comparative cinema and the ways in which cinema is received and interpreted in different social and political contexts.
The publication aims to cover an original area of research, developing and establishing a series of methodologies for comparative studies in film. To that end, it also explores the relation between film and the traditions of comparative literature, and with other contemporary arts such as painting, photography, music, dance and audio-visual media.
Comparative Cinema publishes texts in English, Spanish, and Catalan, with issues that come out twice per year.
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Call For Papers Nº 26 (Summer 2026)
Vivian Sobchack, followed by Laura U. Marks and Jennifer M. Barker, have led a cinematographic way of thinking focused on affect, in which the experience of looking, hearing, and feeling a film has gained prominence. Both film phenomenology and "haptic visuality" challenged the ocularcentrism and disembodiment of theory, and the haptic has since contaminated contemporary audiovisual practice and analysis, affecting study fields as varied as feminism, queer theory, ecocriticism, and new media, among others. In order to continue contributing to this research line and its multiple intersections, Comparative Cinema invites authors to submit articles that analyze and reflect on hapticity in film and television.
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