CineAction
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CineAction (formerly styled CineACTION!) is a Canada-based film magazine, published three times a year,[1] edited by an editorial collective that originally included critic Robin Wood. It was founded in 1985 by members of the film department at Toronto's York University. The magazine has a Marxist-orientation.[1] The first 98 issues of the magazine were published in print from 1985-2016. CineAction introduced its inaugural online issue (issue 99 "Politics & Cinema") in October 2018.[2]
Overview
CineAction began publishing in spring of 1985 (as CineAction! A Magazine of Radical Film Criticism and Theory with an exclamation mark), and reached its 70th issue mark in early 2007. In a lead editorial in its first issue, the collective wrote that the aim of the publication was to "provide, within the field of film criticism, alternatives to what is generally available. We want to steer a course between, on the one hand, the practice of journalistic reviewing (the expression of personal opinions, within an entertainment format) and, on the other, academic "criticism" of a certain type (detached from contemporary social realities and frequently inaccessible to the uninitiated)".
In subsequent issues, CineAction! (the logo dropped the exclamation point with the 23rd issue) went on to publish the work of
In issue No. 70, Wood announced that he was stepping down from the collective board, but would continue to contribute to the magazine. Issue No. 71 (Sexuality in the Cinema) was delayed for several months due to financial problems. However, it finally appeared on store-shelves in late May 2007. The final print issue of the magazine was Issue 98 (2016).
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 90-420-1598-5. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ http://cineaction.ca/
- ^ CineAction!, No. 1, spring, 1985, p. 1
External links
- CineAction.ca – official website
- A list of CineAction issue contents