📣 Call for Papers - Special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture Theme: Digital Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and the Study of Silent Cinema Guest editors: Adelheid Hefberger and Mario Slugan 🗓️ Deadlines for abstracts: Monday, 3 August 2026
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Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/repv20
Our new special issue on Mass Media and the Performance of War is now out. You can read the introduction from guest editors Annelies Andries and Klaas de Zwaan here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
My review of Gregory A. Waller’s BEYOND THE MOVIE THEATER: SITES, SPONSORS, USES, AUDIENCES from @ucpress.bsky.social just dropped in Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social. Book focuses on 1910s w/ broader historical + methodological applications! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Eli Boonin-Vail has published a detailed and insightful review of The Cinema of Extractions (@columbiaup.bsky.social) in Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The cinema of extractions: film materials and their forms
Published in Early Popular Visual Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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We are delighted that our special issue on Early Cinema in the British Colonies has been nominated for a @baftss.bsky.social publication award! You can read the introduction and several of the articles for free here www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
Issue 23:3 is now available online, featuring visual responses to an 18th-century earthquake, transhumanism in the films of Georges Méliès, anti-capitalist critique in fin-de-siècle print culture, princely imagery in India, and Robinson Crusoe trading cards www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
New open access EPVC article online, part of an upcoming special issue on cosmoramas and other 19th-century peep practices: Victor Flores, Imperial visions on tour: cosmoramas, neoramas, and Eurocentrism in Andorfer’s Grand Optical Gallery www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial visions on tour: cosmoramas, neoramas, and Eurocentrism in Andorfer’s Grand Optical Gallery
This article explores the international journey of the Grand Optical Gallery (1828–1854), operated by Austrian showman Thomas Karl Andorfer, with a particular focus on the unique combination of opt...
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Super excited to say my article is out on newspaper reports of clothing of the rulers of princely states @epvcjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What are they wearing? The clothing of the princes of India in the British press and image making of imperial India in the 1870s
This article identifies the importance of clothing in assessing the representation of the princes of India for image making of imperial India. Using both textual and visual British newspapers as a ...
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New issue alert: our special double issue on Early Cinema in the British Colonies is out today, guest edited by Mario Slugan and James Burns. You can read the editors' introduction for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We're excited to share a call for contributions to an upcoming special issue of EPVC on "Teaching Silent Cinema Today", guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and @aurspiers.bsky.social. Share your experiences of teaching silent cinema and your ideas for how it could be taught in the future.
New CFP!! Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social about TEACHING SILENT CINEMA TODAY guest-edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and myself!! Please share!!
New (Open Access) article alert: Stephen Putnam Hughes explores what we can learn about early cinema in colonial Bombay, beginning with a single archival photograph doi.org/10.1080/1746...
The latest issue of EPVC is online, featuring new research into Victorian 3-D portraits, stereoscopy and perception, and tiger photography in colonial India www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! ☘️ Photo of a woman selling drinks to tourists, Gap of Dunloe, Killarney, c. 1890-1914 From Gail Bayliss, ‘Exchanging looks: Gap girls and colleens in early Irish tourist photography’, volume 10, issue 4: doi.org/10.1080/1746... Image: National Library of Ireland
Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2025 Image of LE BATEAU DE LÉONTINE (1911, Eye Filmmuseum) from Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak & Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi’s article ‘Gender and the Nasty Women of History’ (2022), part of our special double issue on The Gender of Early Cinema: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
As this year’s Black History Month in the USA & Canada comes to a close, we wanted to highlight some of the research into Black visual culture, race and representation published in EPVC... 🧵
The second part of our special issue on the British Silent Film Festival & Symposium is now online, including open access articles on William Friese-Greene, silent film music and Maurice Elvey www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
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The British Silent Film Festival and symposium: Part Two. Guest Editor: Chris O’Rourke. Volume 22, Issue 3 of Early Popular Visual Culture
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