Global Storytelling

HKBU launches Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images

The Center for Film and Moving Image Research at Hong Kong Baptist University has launched the inaugural issue of Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images.

Housed at the Academy of Film of HKBU and published by the University of Michigan Press, Global Storytelling is a peer-reviewed, open-access semiannual journal that serves as an international and interdisciplinary forum for intellectual debates concerning the politics, economics, culture, and technology of the moving image.

“No cinema or media journal has before focused on storytelling across multiple platforms and genres, theatrically and digitally both in its affect (emotional engagement) and effect (social impact). Examining how audio-visual narrative works and functions in its multifaceted formations and formats, this journal fills that void,” says Professor Ying Zhu, the Founding Chief Editor of the new journal, who is also Director of the Academy’s Centre for Film and Moving Image Research.

The inaugural issue of Global Storytelling includes 11 articles written by prominent academics and researchers on themes of Hong Kong and social movements, building and documenting national and transnational cinema, Sino-US relations, and the narrative of virus.

This issue is “a beautiful, thought-provoking and very inspiring compilation,” says one of the contributors.

“Great lineup of articles and contributors,” a member of the editorial board of the new journal acknowledges.

Global Storytelling also invites articles, editorials, and book/film reviews. Potential contributors can find the open call guidelines here.

Enquiries: gstjournal@hkbu.edu.hk or https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/gs/contact/.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *