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From 1st March 2009: please see the NEW online instructions here.

Please note: when submitting papers to Screen, authors should include with submitted material a brief biographical note, including institutional affiliation, and a 250-word abstract.

Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words, excluding footnotes.

Submission of a manuscript is taken by the Editors to imply that the paper represents original work not previously published and not under consideration for publication, elsewhere; and if accepted for publication that it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the Editors and Publisher. It is also assumed that the author will have obtained the necessary permissions to include in the paper copyright material such as illustrations, extended quotations, etc. Authors who have material published in Screen will receive one free copy of the journal issue and 25 offprints of their contribution free of charge. In order to receive the free offprints, authors must submit an offprint form, providing a postal address for delivery. Republication in an anthology or collection of an author's own work is freely permissible, with due credit to Screen. Republication otherwise requires the permission of Screen, the Publisher and the author.

Screen is happy to announce the launch of the Flexible Colour Option, beginning for all articles accepted after 1 August, 2008. All figures submitted to the journal in colour will be published in colour online at no cost (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online). Authors may choose to also publish their figures in colour in the print journal for £350 per page; you will be asked to approve this cost in an e-mail when your proof is sent out. Colour figures must have a resolution of at least 300 dots per inch at their final size. You will be issued with an invoice at the time of publication. Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.

Notes and references, which should be kept to a minimum, should be on an automatic numbering system where possible, and appear at the end of the article, not at the foot of individual pages.

Style for citations of written sources is as follows:

1. Christian Metz, Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Imaginary Signifier, trans. Celia Britton. Annwyl Williams, Ben Brewster and Alfred Guzzetti (London: Macmillan, 1982).

2. Ginette Vincendeau, 'Melodramatic realism: on some French women's films in the 1930s', Screen, vol. 30, no. 3 (1989), pp. 51-65.

3. Monika Treut, 'Female misbehaviour', in Laura Pietrapaolo and Ada Testaferri (eds), Feminisms in the Cinema (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 106-21.

References to films in both notes and main text should include full title with initial capitalisation according to accepted style of the language concerned. Titles should be italicised, and in the case of non-English language films original release title should precede US and/or British release title, followed by director and release date in round brackets:

A bout de souffle/Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

Where such information is relevant to the argument and does not appear elsewhere in the text, details of production company and/or country of origin may also be included:

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, Warner Bros, US, 1945).

References to television programmes should be dated from the year of first transmission, and, in the case of long-running serials, the duration of the run should be indicated. Details of production company, transmitting channel, country, may be supplied where they are relevant to the argument:

Coronation Street (Granada, 1961- )

Where writers or producers are credited their role should be indicated:

Where the Difference Begins (w. David Mercer, BBC, 1961).

It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to Oxford University Press. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. As part of the licence agreement, you may however reuse your material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the Publisher.

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