About the Journal

EDITORIAL POLICY

FILMHISTORIA Online is an annual multilingual magazine (Spanish, English and Catalan), edited by the Centre d’Investigacions Film-Història, which publishes original research studies on the relationship between History and Cinema (from all historical periods), as well as all the aspects related to the history of cinema and both still and moving images. It also addresses, from a multidisciplinary and didactic approach, the analysis of the past, the present or future projections of the visual representation of everything that has to do with the portrait of societies; It also publishes reviews of books related to cinematographic themes, film reviews and interviews with researchers or specialists from the world of cinema.

The magazine pays attention to and is interested in all academic and informative analyzes on classic and new visual formats ranging from cinema, photography and, of course, new digital productions, and is intended for both a specialized and expert audience as well as a general one. interested in the seventh art.

FILMHISTORIA Online aims to promote, disseminate and debate historiography, theoretical reflections or methodology on cinema and history, television images, photography, cinema and its didactics in the educational field in any historical context, hence which has various sections ranging from monographs, articles, essays, interviews, festivals, reviews, etc.

The magazine is indexed in different databases that ensure they had access to the content of the magazine in the event that it stopped publishing. In addition, it is archived in the Institutional Repository of the University of Barcelona (UB), called Revistes Científiques de la Universitat de Barcelona (RCUB).

Reception of shipments and peer review

The editorial team will receive the original texts that intend to be published, without this implying their acceptance, to check if they meet the interests and objectives of the journal, as well as some minimum scientific and academic criteria. If they are not, they will be returned to the author/ra (or authors if there are more than one) within a month.

Once approved for evaluation, the texts from the monographs, articles, essays, Film-Història Junior, interviews and classics sections will undergo peer evaluation, double blind by external evaluators (seeking a selection that is not part of the same institution). or research group than the authors to avoid conflicts of interest that may arise). In some cases that are considered necessary, one of the two evaluators may be a member of the scientific committee of the journal, the other being implicitly an external evaluator. Book reviews, film and television reviews, as well as festival and forum chronicles, on the other hand, will be accepted or rejected (without appeal) by the editorial team itself (indicating the pertinent reasons).

The evaluators will not know the authorship of the texts and vice versa, and they will issue reports in which they will establish the convenience or not of their publication according to the following criteria:

  1. Acceptance of submission without modifications in the next issue of the journal.
  2. Acceptance but with modifications. The author / ra must carry out the appropriate changes suggested by the evaluators (in the case of not doing so, they would have to justify the reason) to improve their style, structure or adaptation to the regulations of the journal that are not complied with.
  3. Rejection of the text due to the fact that the two evaluators consider that it does not meet an accepted minimum of rigor or entity for its publication.

In the event that the reports of the two reviewers are contradictory (one positive and one negative), it will be the editorial team that will decide whether or not to publish it. In any of the three established cases, the editorial team will inform the author of the result, with no appeal possible. Rejected texts will be returned to their author, within a maximum period of six months from the moment of their receipt and with the pertinent indications, but unless otherwise indicated, they will not be able to participate in the evaluation process again. The accepted texts, in turn, will receive the evaluators' reports (in the case of having to correct any issue) within three months to be able to undertake the final review (if necessary), before editing.

The criteria of the evaluators will be the following: 1) Originality and novelty of the proposal; 2) Relevance of the field of study on which the magazine revolves; 3) Methodology and expository clarity; 4) Thematic adaptation.

FILMHISTORIA Online is a non-profit magazine, so it will not charge any kind of fees for submissions or for its publication.

 

DECLARATION OF ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICES FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UB).

The University of Barcelona promotes the publication of open access digital journals and ensures the transmission of quality and rigorous scientific knowledge. Likewise, it undertakes to guarantee the ethics of the articles it publishes by reference to the Code of Conduct and Good Practices for Editors of Scientific Journals defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE - Committee on Publication Ethics).

It is imperative that all parties involved in the editing process — editors, reviewers, and authors — are aware of and abide by the principles of this code.

  • Editorial team. 
  1. It is responsible for the decision to publish or not in the journal the articles received, which are examined without taking into account race, sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, country of origin, citizenship or the political orientation of the authors.
  2. It publishes updated guidelines on the responsibilities of the authors and the characteristics of the works sent to the journal, as well as on the arbitration system used to select the articles and the evaluation criteria that the evaluators must apply.
  3. It undertakes to publish the necessary corrections, clarifications and apologies if it deems it appropriate, and not to use the articles received for its own research without the consent of their authors.
  4. Guarantees the confidentiality of the evaluation process, which includes the anonymity of the evaluators and the authors, the content that is evaluated, the report issued by the evaluators and any other communication made by the committees (editorial, advisory and scientific). Likewise, maintains confidentiality in the event of possible clarifications, claims, or complaints that an author wishes to send to the journal's committees or to the reviewers of the article.
  5. Declares its commitment to the respect and integrity of the works that have already been published.
  6. It is especially strict regarding plagiarism: texts that are identified as plagiarism will be removed from the journal or will not be published. The journal will act, in these cases, as quickly as possible.
  • The authors. 
  1. They are responsible for the content of their shipments.
  2. They undertake to inform the directors of the magazine in the event that they detect a relevant error in one of their published articles, so that the appropriate corrections can be introduced.
  3. They guarantee that the article and associated materials are original and do not infringe the copyrights of third parties. In case of co-authorship, they must justify the consent of all the affected authors for the final version of the article to be published in a UB’s journal.
  • Evaluators/reviewers. 
  1. They undertake to carry out an objective, informed, critical, constructive and impartial review of the article. Acceptance or rejection is based solely on the relevance of the work, its originality, interest and compliance with the style and content standards specified in the editorial criteria.
  2. They respect the established deadlines (if this is not possible, they must communicate it sufficiently in advance to the magazine's management).
  3. They do not share, disseminate or use the information of the articles submitted for review without the corresponding permission of the director and/or the authors.

 

HISTORY OF THE JOURNAL

FILMHISTORIA Online is a specialized publication in form of academic journal, following the model of other foreign magazines –such as Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Great Britain), Film and History (USA) or Les Cahiers de la Cinémathèque (France)–, dedicated to the study and dissemination of the relations between History and Cinema, following the theories of the Anglo-Saxon school called Cinematic Contextual History. First edited in paper (1991-2000) under the title of Film-Historia, in 2001 it became digital, being renamed as FILMHISTORIA Online, and in 2015 it was incorporated into the platform of Revistes Científiques de la Universitat de Barcelona (RCUB) to continue offering the possibility of publishing original articles, both about research and divulgation.

Although it was published on a three-year basis between 1991 and 2009, and biannually between 2010 and 2023 (except in 2018 and 2019), from 2024 on the publication of the journal has an annual periodicity, with the primary objective to accomplish with the increasingly broad, demanding and laborious requirements of scientific excellence marked by the University of Barcelona (UB).

This journal is edited by the Centre d’Investigacions Film-Història, Research Group and Laboratory of Contemporary History and Cinema ascribed to the Contemporary History and Current World Section, Departament of History and Archaeology, of Universitat de Barcelona (UB), located in: Office 4116, 4th floor, Facultat de Geografia i Història de la Universitat de Barcelona (UB), C/ Montalegre 6, 08001 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.