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Guidelines for Submitting Film Reviews

LENGTH
Please allot a total of 350 words per film reviewed. In other words, a review of three films should be approximately 1,050 words long.

FORMAT
Heading: At the top of page 1, list the titles (including subtitles), year, director, and the location and name of the production studio of the films under review, followed by your name and affiliation, as shown in this example:

Children of the Crocodile. 2001. Directed by Marsha Emerman. New York: Women Make Movies.

Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Hamilton College

TEXT
Identify all individuals by first and last names at first mention in text. Be sure to check quotations for accuracy.

DEADLINE
Please adhere to the deadline assigned to your review. If you find that you are unable to meet that deadline, please email our office so that we may arrange an alternative due date.

ENDNOTE FORMAT
Cite any texts in endnotes (not parenthetical references), as is our style for film and book reviews only. Use superscript arabic numerals, and number endnotes consecutively to correspond with the numbers in the text. In text, place endnote numbers at the ends of sentences, after any punctuation. Endnote style follows the Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed.). Below are examples:

1 Linda M. G. Zerilli, Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom (Chicago:

University of Chicago Press, 2006), 140.

2 Faith Smith, “Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negros, and Nice White

Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad,” in Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Representation, ed. Belinda Edmondson (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999), 163-82.

3 Shirin Rai, “Knowledge and/as Power: A Feminist Critique of Trade

Related Intellectual Property Rights,” Gender, Technology, and Development 7, no. 1 (2003): 91-113.

4 Zerilli, 33-65.

Cite inclusive page numbers (see, e.g., n. 3 above) when referencing an entire article. Cite a single page number (see, e.g., n. 1 above) when quoting or referencing a specific passage. Second and later references to a previously cited work should be referred to by the author’s last name (see, e.g., n. 4 above) and, in the case of several previous citations of works by the same author, by the title.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Please provide a brief biography (of approximately 50 words) to accompany your review. Consider including your current position and titles of your most recent publications. Please include your e-mail address or other contact information in your biography, indicating that we may include this contact information with your review.

Thank you for following these guidelines. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us.