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.