Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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Vol. 40 No. 49 (2026)
Published 2026 June 26

The journal “Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication” (DOI: 10.14746/i; ISSN: 1731-450X; E-ISSN: 2720-040X) is a biannual scholar journal with an international focus and scope, indexed in databases such as DOAJ, SCOPUS, ERIH PLUS, INDEX COPERNICUS INTERNATIONAL and PKP INDEX. According to the current list of scholarly journals issued by the Polish Ministry of Education and Science, the journal's evaluation index is 70 points. The works posted in the journal are available under a Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0). “Images” publishes texts in Polish and English. Each issue of the magazine is devoted to one theme and also has a Varia section which publishes texts not directly related to its main topic. The main fields of interest of the Editorial Board are articles related to audiovisual culture – film, television, new media, video games or photography. The journal is known for its distinct aesthetic layer which goes hand in hand with editorial diligence. In addition to the articles themselves series of visual works (such as photographs, prints or posters) are included in each volume.

INDEXED IN: DOAJ, SCOPUS, INDEX COPERNICUS INTERNATIONAL, ERIH PLUS, CEEOL, PKP Index, EBSCO Central & Eastern European Academic Source, Arianta, ROAD, THE KEEPERS, CROSSREF, SUDOC, SHERPA ROMEO, OPENALEX, EZB.

JOURNAL METRICS:

Ministry of Education and Science (2024): 70
Index Copernicus Value 2020: 108.03

DOI: 10.14746/i
ISSN: 1731-450x
e-ISSN: 2720-040X

PUBLISHED WORK ARE LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS:

From 2016 to 10.2020:
CC_by-nd/3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
The following volumes(numbers) were published under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND license: 18(27), 19(28), 20(29), 21(30), 22(31), 23(32), 24(33), 25(34), 26(35).

From 10.2020 to present day:
Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International
So far the following volumes(numbers) of the journal have been published under the terms of the current license CC BY: 27(36), 28(37), 29(38), 30(39), 31(40), 32(41), 33(42), 34(43), 35(44), 36(45), 37(46).

DATA ARCHIVING
The PRESSto platform archives the contents of this journal in the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN), a digital long-term preservation service of scholarly journals.

The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC
„Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication" complies with the I40C standards for open citations.

PUBLISHER:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Adam Mickiewicz University Press

Announcements

CFP: “Gleichschaltung aller Medien”. Film in the media system of the Third Reich

We are awaiting your full texts until 15.04.2027. Further information regarding the submission, selection, and review process is available on the IMAGES journal website under the “submissions” (https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/about/submissions) and “review process” (https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/review) sections. We kindly ask you to familiarise yourself with their contents.

Editors of the volume:
prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Kozłowski
mgr Zuzanna Karpińska
mgr Wojciech Sławnikowski


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2026 May 5

CFP: Images of War in Documentary Cinema [2027, Vol. XLIII, No. 52]

We await your submissions (in Polish or English) until September 30, 2026. The planned publication date for the volume is 2027. Although the journal provides basic copyediting in English, authors of English-language submissions whose native language is not English are required to arrange stylistic editing of their texts by a native speaker of English. Please carefully study the submission guidelines, available at: https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/i/about/submissions.

Any questions may be directed to the editorial board of “Images” or to the editors of the planned volume (email addresses below).

Prof. Mikołaj Jazdon, PhD
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; mikolaj.jazdon@amu.edu.pl)

Michał Oleszczyk, PhD
(University of Warsaw; michal.oleszczyk@al.uw.edu.pl)

Piotr Pławuszewski, PhD
(Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; plawusz@amu.edu.pl)


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2025 October 20

CFP: Fiction and Ecology. Literary, Film and Game Representations

WE ANNOUNCE A NEW CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 2027 ISSUE: "Fiction and Ecology. Literary, Film and Game Representations.” We will accept articles for this issue only in English.   Deadline for submission of texts: March 10, 2026 Planned date of publication: I half of 2027
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2025 September 12
Streaming: Production Culture, Business Models, and Content. Context in Practice

Streaming: Production Culture, Business Models, and Content. Context in Practice

Marcin Adamczak, Agnieszka Orankiewicz
7-23
Counter-Refermation? Film Distribution Models in Poland in the First Post-Pandemic Years
PDF (Język Polski)
Sylwia Szostak
25-43
Global Ethos, Local Context: Netflix’s Positioning Strategy in Poland
PDF (Język Polski)
Petro Katerynych, Anastasiia Volobuieva
45-60
Concurrence and Co-evolution: The Impact of Global Streaming Services (Netflix) and National Platforms (Megogo, Sweet.TV) on the Transformation of the Ukrainian Audiovisual Market Amidst the Full-Scale Invasion
PDF
Miłosz Stelmach
61-80
Digital Wars of the World-System: Technofeudalism and the Geopolitics of Streaming Platforms
PDF
Patrycja Włodek
81-99
Personalization – the Case of Netflix: Branding, Content, Microgenres
PDF (Język Polski)
Kamila Żyto
101-116
Lifting a Curse, Breaking a Spell: Voice-Over Narration in a Contemporary TV Series
PDF (Język Polski)
Paweł Sołodki
117-134
Micro-Short Audiovisual Forms and Their Narrative Structures
PDF
Miłosz Wojtyna
135-146
Aesthetics, Capitalism, and Control: TV Series as Spectacle
PDF
Gabriela Jędrusik
147-173
“A New Wave of Animation”. Netflix and Mainstream Animated Cinema
PDF (Język Polski)
Agata Hofelmajer-Roś
175-198
Can Streaming as a Tool in Educational and Film Audience Development Educate a Conscious Viewer?
PDF
Marta Prałat, Anna Szymańska
199-215
Netflix Games: The Netflix Platform’s Strategy toward Digital Games
PDF (Język Polski)

Notes about authors

Redakcja Images
251-256
Notes about authors
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