About This Journal
Framework offers radical approaches to the complexities of today's film and media, with special interests in politics, prejudice, and feminism.
Framework, launched in England in 1974, trail-blazed in its coverage of films from China, Vietnam, Britain, India, Latin America and Australia as well as those from American independents. Television was also a focus. Film directors Jean-Luc Godard, Coco Fusco, Yousseff Chahine and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others, contributed to the journal. Framework also republished 1920s cinema theorists such as Dorothy Richardson and Ricciotto Canudo and published work by, among others, Sunila Abeysekera, Rustom Bharucha, Umberto Eco, Meaghan Morris, Michelle Wallace, and Peter Wollen.
Framework's publication lapsed in 1992 and was re-launched in 1998. Part of Framework's purpose, since that relaunch, has been to actively engage in public conversations. We have a current focus on American prisons, in "Prison USA," prejudice in "Prejudice Now," both started in 2016, and a new platform for avant-garde film. Since 1998, Framework has published diverse work and art by many contributors including Weihong Bao, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Nicole Brenez, Terence Davies, Elena Gorfinkel, Michelle Handelman, Brian R. Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, M. Lamar, Steve McQueen, Neepa Majumdar, Juhani Pallasmaa, Walid Ra'ad, Rob Roth, Susan Slyomovics, Noa Steimatsky, and Lebbeus Woods, as well as out of print, unpublished, untranslated or not previously collected writing by, among others, Thomas Elsaesser, Fernando Solanas, Warren Sonbert, and Peter Whitehead.