Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration

Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration Mise-en-scène (ISSN 2369-5056) endeavours to promote and advance the study of film as an interdisci This demographic is also the journal's readership.

With a focus on film's visual narrative, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) is the first of its kind: an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated exclusively to the artistry of frame composition as a storytelling technique. In adopting a fully open-access, open-review publishing model, MSJ strives to provide a synergistic, community-minded forum for discourse that be

gins at the level of the frame. Scholarly analysis of lighting, set design, costuming, camera angles, camera proximities, depth of field, and character placement are just some of the topics that the journal covers. While primarily concerned with discourse in and around the frame, MSJ includes narratological analysis at the scene and sequence level within its scope. Articles that dovetail current debates, research, and theories as they deepen our understanding of filmic storytelling are particularly welcome. The journal's contributing writers include graduate students, academics, filmmakers, film scholars, and cineastes, all of whom feel compelled to situate their research in the frame narrative. Published twice a year, Mise-en-scène is the official film studies journal of Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, Canada. Its Editor-in-chief is Greg Chan.

Print editions of Issue 10.1 have arrived at the MSJ office!
08/28/2025

Print editions of Issue 10.1 have arrived at the MSJ office!

Just published: MSJ, Issue 10.1.With the release of its Summer 2025 edition, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual...
08/19/2025

Just published: MSJ, Issue 10.1.

With the release of its Summer 2025 edition, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration celebrates its 10th anniversary of scholarly publication.

A decade of Mise-en-scène has seen it evolve from a grassroots, in-house journal to an internationally recognized forum for film and television studies. Across its eighteen issues, MSJ has become a transnational community of film studies academics, film students, independent scholars, filmmakers, and cinéastes. Our 122 contributing authors alone represent film studies research in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, India, Japan, Ghana, and Brazil. They are at the heart of this retrospective edition celebrating MSJ’s history – and its future. To revisit Mise-en-scène’s development over a decade, Issue 10.1 is a compilation of articles, featurettes, interviews, visual essays, and undergraduate scholarship making their return appearances.

Issue 10.1 marks another passage: It is the last with Greg Chan as Mise-en-scène’s Editor-in-Chief. Ten years of the journal coincides with his retirement from KPU after 30 years. While he will stay on as the Founding Editor and an advisory board member, two incredibly talented members of the MSJ editorial team are stepping forward as the new editors: Kelly Doyle (KPU) and Michael Howarth (MSSU). Kelly and Michael have been with the journal since its inception, serving in multiple roles as advisory board members, reviewers, copyeditors, guest editors, and contributing authors. Congratulations to Kelly and Michael, whose tenure as Mise-en-scène’s editors begins with Issue 10.2 (Winter 2025).

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