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Happy LGBTQ+ History Month! 🌈

We’re celebrating Intellect authors who are shaping queer scholarship and culture. Explore their work and stories. 📚✨

#LGBTQHistoryMonth #QueerVoices

Call for papers on 'Beau Brummell' in Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, deadline 31 March 2026.

This Special Issue invites article submissions that explore reworkings in men’s fashion from Beau Brummell to the present day, considering sartorial expression and both resistant and hegemonic masculinities.

Deadline: 31 March 2026

Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/poMT50Y4V3C

Cover of Journal of Environmental Media showing a hand holding a smartphone capturing green fern leaves in a forest setting.

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of Environmental Media 6.2!

Including ‘The Virtual Guide Dog Walkshop: Rediscovering connection, imagination and sustainability through walking’ by Laura Apolonio.

Access the issue via Discover 👉
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jem/6/2

Cover of Asian Cinema journal Volume 36 Number 2 featuring a family watching a large TV screen with a scenic outdoor scene.

Critical Studies in Asian Cinema 36.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Aesthetics of Fear’

Including and ‘Hair becomes her: Presenting the ‘monstrous’ feminine in Japanese horror’ by Jennifer M. Yoo.

Access the issue via Discover 👉https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ac/36/2

Book cover showing a blurred woman with dollar bills hanging on a line, titled Dark Film, Blood Money by Vernon Shetley.

Dark Film, Blood Money: The Economic Unconscious of American Neo-Noir Cinema by Vernon Shetley is out now in hardback.

Aimed scholars and faculty who study and teach film noir and neo-noir at levels from high school to post-graduate.

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/mX0o50Y5onR

On this episode James Campbell is joined by Shelley Sella and Janean Forsyth.

They discuss Shelly's book, Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care and Chelsea’s Fund, a NPO that helps with access to abortion care.

Watch here 👉https://ow.ly/HvyE50Y7ro5

Dr. Shelley Sella | #BookSky

A whole new journal issue on Pinocchio @intellectbooks.bsky.social I have a rev on The Prince of Egypt.

Say hello to today’s team spotlight!
Meet Oliver Rendle, one of our journal production editors, who’s celebrating 2 years with us.

When they’re not supporting the magic happening at Intellect, you’ll probably find them:
✨ Cycling
✨ Taking photographs

More faces coming soon!

This Black History Month, we’re spotlighting authors, editors and publications across Intellect that explore Black histories, cultures and creative practices.

These voices and stories shape our publishing all year round. So join us as we celebrate black history.

#blackhistory #notjustamonth

DSA Conference
Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies and Movement in a World in Flux
California State University, Long Beach
23–25 Oct 2026

Speculative Choreographies invites critical engagement with dance as both performance and practice

Deadline: 10 Feb 2026

https://ow.ly/Ak5m50Y66FM

Cover of Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture journal with a silhouette walking toward a bright light surrounded by digital code.

We are pleased to welcome the new editorial team of ISCC! Thank you to Principal Editor Salvatore Scifo for his many years of work in support of the journal.

Ana Cristina Suzina
Dorismilda Flores-Márquez
Jessica Noske-Turner
Weiyu Zhang
Andrea Meyer Landulpho Medrado

https://ow.ly/Agma50Y4gjZ

Cover of Visual Inquiry journal featuring a desert scene with a crashed small airplane and a vehicle in the background under a clear sky.

Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art 14.1&2 is out now.

Special Issue: ‘Knowledge and Data Transparency across Creative Visual Education: Practice, Research, and Policy’

Association for Art History

https://ow.ly/eSgx50Y5l5K

Call for papers on ethics, politics, and poetics in video game preservation for a special issue of the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds.

Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds Call for Papers
Special Issue: ‘Save State: Ethics, Politics and Poetics of Video Game Preservation’

Deadline: 1 March 2026

Find out more 👉https://ow.ly/9wmO50Y4fZ0

Participate in the 1st Olomouc Games Conference taking place on 23–24 April 2026 at Palacký University Olomouc.

More information and the registration form (deadline 31 January 2026) can be found here:
https://forms.gle/qVTmW1PpoTiNTFT19

Cover of Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance featuring a blurred image of a woman dancing against a cityscape background.

Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 18.2 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘A Global “Puppet”’

Including ‘Ottoman and Greek popular culture and Italian literary figures’ by Eleni Kassapi and ‘Pinocchio and his siblings’ by Rosangela Libertini
TaPRA

https://ow.ly/fyMV50Y4M4R

Cover of Journal of Global Diaspora & Media Volume 6 Number 1 featuring a world map with interconnected network lines.

Journal of Global Diaspora & Media 6.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Diaspora, Rethinking Praxis and Theory in Communication for Development’

Including ‘Transcultural narratives and diasporic representation in New Nollywood’ by Tioluwalogo Olakunbi-Black

https://ow.ly/xume50Y4M1K

Book cover for „Studying Unmade, Unsern, and Unreleased Film and Television - Histories, Theories, Methods“ edited by James Fenwick and Kieran Foster

Title page „Queer Histories of the Unmade“ Sabrina Mittermeier

Table of Contents List of Figures vii Introduction: Unmade, Unseen, and Unreleased Film and 1 Television – an Unresolved Problem James Fenwick and Kieran Foster PART I: THEORIZING THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 27 1. Creative Failure 31 Peter C. Kunze 2. The Poetics of Phantom Cinema: Waiting for Harry Dickson 49 Philippe C. Met 3. Archival Absences, Silences and Fragments: The Unmade and 64 Film History James Fenwick 4. Batgirl Incorporated: Cancelled Films, Corporate Strategy and 84 Questions of Quality Kieran Foster 5. Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives 101 Monika Kin Gagnon 6. Phantom Visions of the SnyderVerse: Unproduction and the Fan- Led 116 Battle to Restore Zack Snyder’s DC Extended Universe Films Ryan Greene 7. Queer Histories of the Unmade 131 Sabrina Mittermeier 8. Becoming Unmade 142 Zach Karpinellison Delivered by Intellect to: Sabrina Mittermeier (23322593)

STUDyING UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED FILM AND TELEVISION PART II: ARCHIVES OF THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 157 9. Disinterring Johanna ter Steege: Aryan Papers and the Materiality of the Stanley Kubrick Archive Cassie Brummitt and Joy McEntee 10. The Lost Crusade: Lindsay Anderson’s Unmade Sequel to If … (1968) Will Kitchen 11. No Film to Watch: Pare Lorentz and the Atom Bomb Jason Potel 12. Ken Russell’s Unmade Films 1968– 82: A Critical Reflection Matthew Melia 13. The Case of Tizia Jus: An Unmade Film in Post- War Austria Hanja Dämon 14. The Location Outtakes for Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah Sue Vice and Dominic Williams 161 175 189 204 224 238 PART III: CREATIVE PRACTICE AND THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 253 15. Not Showing at This Cinema: Festivals of the Unmade 257 Tim Brown 16. Containing, Transforming, Transcending the Story: Notes from a 272 Scriptwriter’s Journey Marianne Strand 17. The Unfilmables 279 Colm McAuliffe Notes on Contributors 295 Index 299

The edited collection on „Studying Unmade,
Unseen, and Unreleased Film and Television
Histories, Theories, Methods“ by James Fenwick & Kieran Foster is out now with @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Glad to have contributed a chapter on „Queer Histories of the Unmade“!

Michael Wayne, assistant editor of the Journal of Class and Culture talks to Ali Alizadeh.

Ali Alizadeh is the author of 'The will to horror' an article published in the Journal of Class and Culture 4.1

Watch the interview https://ow.ly/2bIl50Y4bg8

Read the article https://ow.ly/WYZ050Y4bg9

Explore what’s capturing attention in community music scholarship 🎶

Here are the top 10 most-downloaded articles from the International Journal of Community Music – showcasing the ideas and practices shaping community music today.

Find them on our Discover platform here 👉https://ow.ly/xmf850Y4kWy

Cover of 'Decolonizing Islamic Art in Africa' edited by Ashley Miller, featuring a black and white photo of a person in traditional attire holding a star-shaped object.

New review! ⭐

Find out more about the book 👉https://ow.ly/CVA350XXiGu

Cover of PUBLIC 72 journal titled '(Searching for) Home' with abstract landscape art in earthy tones.

PUBLIC Issue 72 is out now!

Including ‘Imagined Homes: Speculative Futurecraft-work in South Africa’s Margins’ by Eve Wong
Association for Art History

Access the issue via Discover 👉
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/public/36/72

Team spotlight time!
Say hello to Judith Schofield, our Journals Marketing Executive.

When they’re not working on marketing, they’re usually:
🥾 Hiking
✍️Writing fantasy or horror stories

Favourite Intellect book: Horror Studies 📚

#MeetTheTeam #PublishingPeople

Podcast episode titled 'In Conversation' featuring Nanette Hoogslag and Adrian Holme, editors of the Journal of Illustration, on a blue background.

On this episode of In Conversation, James Campbell is joined by Nanette Hoogslag and Adrian Holme editors of the Journal of Illustration.

They discuss the format and themes of the journal, the visual essay and how illustration can be defined.

Watch the episode here👉https://ow.ly/9wrC50XVuXK

Cover of Radio Journal issue showing a person holding headphones with sunlight in the background and journal title on a green and white layout.

Radio Journal 23.2 is out now!

Including ‘Radio as object and signifier of female oppression in Irish cinema’ by Sandra Costello.

Access the issue via discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/rj/23/2

Cover of a book titled 'Studying Unmade, Unseen and Unreleased Film and Television' edited by James Fenwick and Kieran Foster, featuring a vintage film strip design.

Studying Unmade, Unseen and Unreleased Film and Television by James Fenwick and Kieran Foster is out now.

It serves as a foundational text for students and those new to this field of enquiry, as well as a key reference text for established researchers.

👉https://ow.ly/QxPT50Y09QF

New review! ⭐

Find out more about the book 👉https://ow.ly/xefM50XXiuL

Cover of Short Film Studies Volume 15 Number 2 featuring four women standing and conversing in front of a reflective, checkered wall.

Short Film Studies 15.2 is out now!

Including ‘Is it really so strange? Strange Way of Life and the late western’ by S. A. Wilder
#ShortFilms.

Access the issue via discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/sfs/15/2

Cover of A/R/tography book featuring abstract art and editors' names on a beige background with a detailed review quote.

New review ⭐

Find out more 👉https://www.intellectbooks.com/artography

Man sitting on a rocky beach using a laptop with the ocean and distant shoreline in the background on the Journal of African Media Studies cover.

Journal of African Media Studies 17.1 is out now!

Including ‘A framing analysis of the New York Times coverage of Ebola’ by Foluke Omosun and Cheryl Ann Lambert.

Access the issue via Discover 👉 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jams/17/2

Three musicians playing traditional instruments outdoors, promoting a call for papers on Black migrant musicking in Brazil for Crossings journal.

Call for Papers
Special Issue: ‘Black Migrant Musicking in Contemporary Brazil’

This Special Issue seeks contributions from scholars, artists and activists engaged with the musicking of recent African and Afro-diasporic migrants in Brazil.

Deadline: 30 April 2026

👉https://ow.ly/W0Rk50XWMB4