JAWS is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes new art and writing from early- to mid-career researchers and practitioners working across creative disciplines. JAWS publishes writing about art and writing as art. We welcome practice-based research visual essays book reviews and interviews by emergent practitioners and researchers. Supporting criticality and experimentation in arts writing the journal connects authors to an international audience. JAWS welcomes divergent and/or unconventional forms as well as more traditional submissions.
Adaptation or the conversion of oral historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries. In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries. Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or identities of Africa and its peoples represented in film.
The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is an interdisciplinary journal that provides a forum for debate on the historical and contemporary aspects of media and communication in Africa.
The Journal of Alternative and Community Media (JOACM) publishes research which helps explain the shifting media environment and the ways in which people use alternative forms of media and communication. Issues of concern to the journal include the nature and distribution of media power; access to and participation in media; media practices of communities and social movements; and the possibilities of emerging technologies and new media.
The Journal of Applied Arts & Health publishes peer-reviewed art-based research and serves a wide community of artists researchers practitioners and policy-makers evidencing the effectiveness of art as the mode of inquiry and evidence within the interdisciplinary use of arts in health and arts for health. It provides a forum for the publication and debate within an interdisciplinary field of arts in healthcare and health promotion. The journal defines 'health' broadly which includes physical mental emotional spiritual occupational social and community health.
The emergence of satellite TV the internet and digital technology have dramatically changed the way audiences receive information and interact with the media. The sudden success of Al-Jazeera and other Arab broadcasters have altered the way the Arab world narrates itself and reports news from the region to the rest of the world. The journal aims to lead the debate about these emerging rapid changes in media and society in Arab and Muslim parts of the world.
The Journal of Arts and Communities seeks to provide a critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory arts encompassing a field of work defined for this purpose as incorporating active creative ollaboration between artists and people in a range of communities.The journal will take a cross-artform and interdisciplinary approachincluding work happening in performance visual arts and mediawriting multimedia and collaboration involving digital technology and associated forms. In part this will create an archive that will document work which can otherwise be ephemeral
The Journal of Class & Culture is a provocative theoretical and empirical intervention into debates concerning class and culture. We reject and challenge the rendering of class as an archaic concept and engage with class as a dynamic category actively shaped by the changing demands of capitalism.
The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (JCCA) is a scholarly forum for the presentation of new research into and critical debate on or concerned with the subject of contemporary Chinese art.
Journal of Contemporary Painting responds to the territory and practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense viewing painting as a context for discussion exploring its sphere of history and influence rather than as a medium specific debate. The JCP combines a thematic approach with an open call each issue opening up and problematising pressing concerns in contemporary painting.
As well as contributions to current debates on contemporary art a particular feature of the Journal of Contemporary Painting is the publication of archival or newly translated texts alongside current responsive articles based on the premise that contemporary painting cannot be understood without reflecting on its history. Dedication to understanding the nature and forms of painting research has also led to the inclusions of an original visual essay for every edition. Additionally we respond to current exhibitions books and symposia nationally and internationally in our reviews section.
Our aim is to be responsive to current debates in painting and related art practices drawing from a wide geographical field and across discipline boundaries to provide a discursive space in which a range of subject specialisms can be brought to bear on the culture of painting. We are particularly interested in writing emerging from practice-based research as well as from academics working in different disciplines.
The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international peer-reviewed publication that explores the cultural functioning of curating and its relation to exhibitions institutions audiences aesthetics and display culture. The journal takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes ""the curatorial."" Curating has evolved considerably from the connoisseurship model of arranging objects to now encompass performative virtual and interventionist strategies. While curating as a spatialized discourse of art objects remains important the expanded cultural practice of curating not only produces exhibitions for audiences to view but also plays a catalytic role in redefining aesthetic experience framing cultural conditions in institutions and communities and inquiring into constructions of knowledge and ideology.
This journal focuses on the relationship between dance and somatic practices and the influence of this body of practice on the wider performing arts. The journal will be aimed at scholars and artists providing a space for practitioners and theorists to debate the work to consider the impact and influence of the work on performance the interventions that somatic practices can have on other disciplines and the implications for research and teaching.
The Journal of Environmental Media offers a scholarly platform to bridge work in environmental studies identity and social justice and science communication through the prism of screen media focusing on the role of new and emerging digital media in our understanding and perception of the environment and related social issues.
The Journal of European Popular Culture investigates the creative cultures of Europe present and past. Exploring European popular imagery media new media film music art and design architecture drama and dance fine art literature and the writing arts and more the journal is also of interest to those considering the influence of European creativity and European creative artefacts worldwide.
The multi - disciplinary nature of fan studies makes the development of a community of scholars sometimes difficult to achieve. The Journal of Fandom Studies seeks to offer scholars a dedicated publication that promotes current scholarship into the fields of fan and audience studies across a variety of media. It focuses on the critical exploration within a wide range of disciplines and fan cultures of issues surrounding production and consumption of popular media (including film music television sports and gaming) The journal aims to address key issues in fans studies itself while also fostering new areas of enquiry that take us beyond the bounds of current scholarship.
The Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds focuses on theoretical and applied empirical critical rhetorical creative economic and professional approaches to the study of electronic games across platforms and genres as well as ludic and serious online environments.
