We are proud to present the second issue of Wide Screen. We feel that with this issue, the move towards addressing the discipline, engaging with it in ways that go beyond film analysis alone, is apparent. It is almost redundant to express the centrality of film text in this discipline, but what makes for richer academic work is an engagement with allied impulses and presences – which, in the case of cinema, are nearly boundless. Technology, economy, psychoanalysis, craft, politics, marketing and so much more is crucial to understanding film and its place in our minds, in society and most certainly in academia. This year papers have come from countries like Italy, Ireland, the UK, the United States of America and India.

As with our last issue, we followed a strict policy of blind peer review for each paper that came to us. Academics and practitioners form our review panels, and without them this collection of essays, reviews and comments would not have been possible. We take this opportunity to thank the members of our editorial and advisory boards who have helped through this long process.