SineFilozofi

SineFilozofi is an international, refereed, widespread, periodical electronic journal published twice a year. The journal, which has an interdisciplinary structure between the fields of cinema and philosophy, aims to provide ground for international academic debates in its field. There is no application fee for academic content submitted for publication to the journal. This journal has adopted an open access policy, it is not for profit, and access to the journal content is free. SineFilozofi works on a voluntary basis. There is no royalty fee for the articles, book and film reviews, and conversations / interviews published in the content of the magazine. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must not have been published elsewhere or sent for publication.
The mission and vision of SineFilozofi are given detaily in the manifesto published in the first issue:

The Manifesto of SineFilozofi
1. Today, two prevailing orientations are observed in the studies on films in Turkey: The studies are either based on film theories or technique/form. This explicit situation also reflects to factions. However, cinema has such a big potential, namely “thought”, which cannot be assimilated under the details of theory and technique, and which cannot be massified into any clique or group.
2. The resources of thought are various: Art, Philoshopy, and Science. Philosophy, art, and science are the same in terms of essence, nevertheless they are different in terms of form. As Deleuze also emphasizes, art tries to reach its aims with thought, sensation and affection; while philosophy does the same with conceptions; and science does it with functions. Each of these is a different expression of thought.
3. SineFilozofi agrees with the notion of which Deleuze spoke that the relationship between “concept” and “sensation” is the most important answer to the problem of forming chaos. Philosophy and cinema, which works with conceptions and sensations respectively, by means of interaction, not only manifests thought in different manners, but also can build new and creative thoughts. Through mobilizing images in arts, cinema makes a central contribution to the expression and the creation of the emotional and sensational dimensions of thought. In today’s world, cinema is one of the most important arts as it helps the emotional dimension of thought, with Heidegger’s words, “cease to be hidden” and “put itself forth”.
4. In this sense, cinema is not an art just to enjoy. Asserting this kind of a sentence, for sure, does not mean to deny the entertaining aspect of the cinema. At the same time, however, cinema needs to be accepted as a mental creation about thought and philosophy. Philosophy tries to understand and give a meaning to the world, life itself, human relations and chaos by conceptions. Perhaps we can adapt Deleuze’s analysis of “deterritorializing” to cinema and philosophy in this manner: “Cinema tries to deterritorialize thought”, whereas philosophy tries to “reterritorialize” it again.
5. Nonetheless, the relation of “deterritorialization” and “territoralization” is similar to the poetic dance that was mentioned by Nietzsche in Birth of Tragedy. This is a dance
that in the period of acting its elements are not excluding one another but need the other to move, that is both tense and contradictory besides at times Apollionic but then
Dionysosic. Philosophy is not superior to cinema and vice versa in this poetic dance through which the conceptional Apollon/philosophy first forms the overflowing and enthusiastic Dionysos/cinema, then having been impressed by Dionysos falls back and finally reaches a new concept.
6. SineFilozofi is a journal which tries to go on a philosophical journey with movies, and which produces its language and perspective on these grounds. A journey with movies means feeling that we are side by side with them and experiencing emotion and conception together, simultaneously but in different modes.
7. SineFilozofi advocates that each movie has a “concern” and we cannot uncover or unhide this “concern” only by dry scientific sentences, mechanical analyses, film theories and formal texts.
8. Perceiving form and content as a whole depends on finding creative and novel words to interpret different films. Concerning that his films are not watched by many people, Godard, says: “If they watched my films, they would give themselves eighty percent into them. Yet, if you go and watch Titanic, you give only ten percent of your personality into it. Good films have less viewers, but these films take a lot from them.”
SineFilozofi attempts to understand, feel and explain both kind of the films –which take a lot or only a little from their viewers. In this context, SineFilozofi, adopting a concept where masters, headworkers and apprentices work together, tries to watch different films with different poetic languages. Thus, in addition to finding the concern in the mass culture cinema products like Star Wars, it also follows a language that aims to reveal emotion and concern in the films of intellectual directors, such as Godard.
9. SineFilozofi supports the idea that cinema does not simply imitate the world, on the contrary it interferes with and constructs the world. Its fundemantal question is what
films do to us and how. The traces of the answer will be followed with the help of philosophical conceptions and cinematic images.
10. Cinema has the potential of showing not only what can be thought but also what cannot be thought. Nevertheless, SineFilozofi believes that a step beyond Wittgenstein’s understanding “whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” is possible, instead adopts a new one: “must not be silent” with the help of the friction among philosophical conceptions and the images in films. Cinema does this by showing, whereas philoshopy does the same by continuously following new creative and productive things and new conceptions. The combination of these two is a brand new philosophy: SineFilozofi.

SineFilozofi offers to gather all the people who take cinema and philosophy in consideration seriously but are scattered around Turkey; and their forces together. Interlocked one another around the journal this independent and autonomous synergy, beyond forming any kinds of factions and cliques, is going to follow thought only. CinePhilosophical Community is open to anyone who interiorizes this slogan, or to anyone who at least ponder over it even if they do not fully interiorize. The community offers carrying out cinephilosophical translations, compilations and meetings on an intellectual and artistic plane.

Thought has philosophical and artistic appearances.

IF THE PURPOSE IS THOUGHT, IT IS NECESSARY TO UNITE FORCES.

SineFilozofi is open to all works coming from branches such as fine arts, philosophy, social sciences that are in close relationship with this field, especially the field where cinema and philosophy intersect, and that coincide with the publication policy.

Author Guidelines
Sinefilozofi uses the APA referencing style and papers submitted should follow this style. Please see the comprehensive
guide here:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
However, we ask that book and article titles be capitalised in the more usual fashion (rather than following the APA's
lower case style).
Submissions that are not referenced in this style will be automatically rejected.
Abstract and Keywords
Please include your abstract and keywords at the beginning of your submitted document.

An Extended Abstract of 600-800 words, which briefly summarizes the study, should be included in your studies written in Turkish. Extended abstract in English is mandatory for only Turkish manuscripts.

It is recommended to follow the following order in your study:

The title of the manuscript both in Turkish and in English
Abstracts (180-200 words) both in Turkish and in English
Key words: 5 words both in Turkish and in English
Extended Abstract (600-800 words) in English
Main article sections
External Financing (if exits)
Conflict of Interest (if exits)
Acknowledgement (if exists)
References
All tables, illustrations (figures) (including title, description, footnotes)

In-text Citations
(Partridge, 2006: 26)
In-text citation guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/
Length
Article length: Strictly 6000 - 8000 words (including bibliography)
Book Reviews: 750 - 1500 words
General Style Guidelines
Articles and reviews should be submitted as an A4 Word document (.doc or .docx).
Articles must be written in clear, grammatical English. SineFilozofi cannot provide any assistance with language editing.
The article should be 1,5 spaced. Use Book Antiqua
Quotation marks should be double (") except for quotations within quotations which should be single (').
When adding ellipses to a quotation, please indicate that this is your insertion by using square brackets: [...]
Please do not use italics for emphasis or to indicate the mention rather than use of a word. In the latter case, please put
the mentioned word in double quotation marks.
When mentioning a film for the first time, italicise the title and include the name of the director and the date of release in
brackets (unless this information is mentioned elsewhere in your sentence). i.e., The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940).
The title of any film should be italicised throughout the article.
When referring to a non English-language film, the original title, also in italics, and director and year of production
should be listed after the first mention of the film and in parentheses (after this, refer to the film's English title, except
where it is more usual to use the original language name). For example: Divided We Fall (Musíme si pomáhat, Jan Hřebejk,
2000) but La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962).
Book and journal titles should be italicised.
Quotations longer than thirty words should be separated from the main text, indented, single-spaced and should have
no quotation marks.
Brackets within brackets should be square (Psycho [1960]).
Diacritics (accents) should be added to all names or words where appropriate.
Do not use endnotes.
Section Headings
You are welcome to use section headings (in bold) but do not number these. Use "Introduction" or "Conclusion".
Bibliography
Articles should have a Bibliography (so titled) containing only works cited.
See: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/06/
Filmography
We do not require a filmography.
Footnotes
Footnotes (at the bottom of the page) should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Footnotes should not be used for
referencing sources. Please do not use endnotes.
Abbreviations
f. - following page
ff. - following pages
e.g. - for example (no comma necessary)
i.e. - namely (no comma necessary)
cf. - compare
Please do not use ibid. - always give the full in-text reference.
Please do not use etc.
Reproduction of Film Stills
Like other creative works, film stills are protected by copyright and authors should seek permission to use these
wherever necessary.
However, under "fair dealing" we consider it is not necessary to obtain permission to reproduce film stills (which you
have captured yourself) as long as they fulfil both of the following criteria:
1. The stills should be used in the article directly for criticism and/or for review - they cannot be used for purely
illustrative purposes.
2. Authors should not use an excessive number of images - authors should use no more than is necessary to
demonstrate the point they are making in an article.
Book Reviews
Book reviews are not blind peer-reviewed and

General Principles

A double-blind peer review system is adopted in article evaluation processes. Thus, it is ensured that the authors and referees are anonymous.

Sinefilozofi journal has adopted the policy of providing open access, it is not for profit and access to the journal content is free. The journal does not charge article processing or application fees.
Sinefilozofi journal does not reserve the publication rights of the articles. All publication rights belong to the authors. However, articles published in the journal cannot be used without reference.
Sinefilozofi undertakes to fulfill its ethical responsibilities on the basis of the standards set by the "Council of Higher Education Scientific Research and Publication Ethics" standards and "COPE"; makes sure that editors, authors and referees are also aware of these responsibilities in scientific articles sent to journals.
Sinefilozofi journal also takes into account the publication ethics flow charts (https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts) determined by COPE in case of a possible abuse or violation of publication ethics.

Ethical Responsibilities of Authors

1. Scientific articles to be sent to the journal should not have been previously published, included in a program, or entered into the evaluation process for publication elsewhere. Authors cannot have their work in the application process of more than one journal at the same time.
2. The author must have a document showing that they have the rights to use the data used,
the necessary permissions for the research / analysis, or that they have carried out the authorization procedures for the tested subjects.
3. Manuscripts submitted to the journal must be original. Attention should be paid to
citation and bibliography.
4. The names of all authors who contributed to the article should be included.
5. The editorial team of the journal should be contacted about the errors that are noticed after the publication of the articles and the necessary arrangements should be made.
6. When necessary, copyrights for the images used in the articles should be obtained by the author.
7. It is not possible to change the author responsibilities of a study whose evaluation process
has started (such as adding author, changing author order, removing author).
8. The authors are ultimately responsible for situations such as material errors and possible ethical problems that may arise in the content of the articles.

Ethical Responsibilities of Referees

1. All information regarding the reviewed article should be kept confidential. No declaration, information or negotiation should be made about the articles in question in different media.
2. Documents including the refereeing process should not be shared outside the journal editorial team.
3. Documents including the refereeing process should not be shared outside the journal editorial team.
4. Documents including the refereeing process should not be shared outside the journal editorial team.
5. Evaluation processes should be conducted fairly. The principle of impartiality must be observed.
6. The referees should evaluate the articles within the given time period, and they should not disrupt the process of the article by going out of time.
7. It should be in cooperation with the editor regarding the articles. He should convey the warning and additional information he deems appropriate to the editor.
8. The evaluation reports should not include offensive and derogatory statements.
9. Corrections requested from the author should be clearly stated.
10. If he / she thinks that he / she faces a conflict of interest during the evaluation process, he / she should refuse to examine the study and inform the editor of the journal.



Authorities and Ethical Responsibilities of the Editorial Team

1. The editor has the authority to decide whether to consider a manuscript during the pre-review phase.
2. Editors; It is obliged to implement the "Blind Refereeing and Evaluation Process" policies in the journal publishing policies. In this context, editors ensure that each work is completed in a fair, impartial and timely evaluation process.
3. Editors; is responsible for protecting the individual data of the author, referee and readers.
4. Editors; is responsible for responding in an enlightening and descriptive manner by carefully examining complaints from authors, referees or readers.
5. Editors; is obliged to provide explanatory information on questions from the author, referee or readers.

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