Why BLACKOUT?

The Meaning of a Journal

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Keywords:

blackout, cinema, journal, academy, meaning

Abstract

The editorial introducing BLACKOUT. Cinema and Other Visions.

 

«What kind of magazine does BLACKOUT. Cinema and Other Visions want to be? From the very beginning, it was conceived as a space for critical reflection and interdisciplinary analysis of cinema, film studies, and media studies, with the desire and need to extend its scope to television studies, visual studies, game studies, and the intersections between these fields».

Author Biography

  • Diego Del Pozzo, editor of BLACKOUT. Cinema and Other Visions, Naples Academy of Fine Arts

    A journalist, film and comics historian, and professor of Mass Media Theory, History, and Methodology at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, he is the author of numerous essays in scholarly journals, encyclopedias, and collective volumes, as well as the monographs Ai confini della realtà. Cinquant’anni di telefilm americani and Marvel Cinematic Universe. Dal fumetto agli audiovisivi digitali: i film di supereroi tra convergenza mediale e nuova serialità. With Vincenzo Esposito, he edited the volumes Rock Around the Screen. Storie di cinema e musica pop and Il cinema secondo Springsteen. He has also written three books on sports culture. He contributes to the Culture and Entertainment pages of the newspaper Il Mattino. He founded and directs Blackout. Cinema and Other Visions, the film, media, and visual studies journal of the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.

References

Blackout (The Blackout, Abel Ferrara, 1997).

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Published

19-06-2026

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 00 (2026): The new frontiers of cinema and audiovisuals

Section

Editorials

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Copyright (c) 2026 Diego Del Pozzo (Author)

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How to Cite

Why BLACKOUT? The Meaning of a Journal. (2026). BLACKOUT. Cinema and Other Visions, 1(00). https://blackout.abana.it/index.php/blackout/article/view/22

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