No. 1 (2026): Cinema & Loneliness

The present issue marks the first step in the latest initiative by the Irish Screen Studies group: a peer-reviewed journal. Although there is no shortage of journals in the field of screen studies, this was created with three core goals in mind. First, to bring together the voices and thinking of early-career and established scholars. Second, to guarantee open-access scholarship to our contributors at a time when this can be a financially prohibitive choice, especially for independent scholars. Third, to ensure that scholarship presented at our annual ISS conference reaches a wider audience.