*CFP* "AT THE INTERSECTIONS: RACE, INDIGENEITY, AND DIASPORA IN SCREEN PRODUCTION RESEARCH", CHAPTER BOOK

What does it mean to stand at the intersections? What can this mean for the process of filmmaking? 

In the last decade, the dynamism of practice as/in research has been growing in diverse disciplines. The possibilities of filmmaking practice as/in research have created new and innovative ways of inquiry both within and outside of the academy. The process of making knowledge through filmmaking has been discussed in several publications. In addition, studies in creative practice as a mode of research have emanated from the fields of art, design, and performance studies. However, in screen practice as a mode of research, there has been no substantial study that focuses on the notions of ‘difference’ and othering’. By extension, there is also a paucity of published material that offers accounts of professional screen practice, where creative and practical decision-making intersects with any aspects of ‘difference’.

The book will draw attention to the creative processes, encounters, relationships and thinking when such things hinge on the experiences, truths, memories, places, feelings, contexts and histories associated with difference and othering.  By examining ‘difference’ in screen production through a range of diverse, professional and situated practices, the book will engage with the implications and nature of audio/visuality, aesthetics, storytelling, and styles, as well as methodologies, ethics, philosophies and research in the production process.

The publication brings screen practitioners (outside of the academy) and screen practitioners-researchers (inside the academy) together, to discuss how knowledge, both practical and theoretical, grows inside experience. The book embrace but go beyond representation and identity to deal with on-the-ground questions that screen practitioners/researchers ask (or could and should ask) at the intersections, about the nature of professional practice and experience.

At the Intersections: Race, Indigeneity, and Diaspora in Screen Production Research investigates instances where screen practice as a mode of research and/or professional practice intersects with experience and knowledge associated with migration, indigeneity, diaspora, race, ethnicity or socio-cultural diversity. The book explores the complex, cumulative ways in which the effects of these multiple forms intersect with the experiences, thoughts, and knowledge of screen practitioners and/or researchers, the screen texts they create, as well as the methodologies, philosophies, contexts and processes they encounter and think about. 

The book draws on the thinking of screen practitioners and/or researchers whose research and/or creative experience is characterised by living between two or more cultural regimes of knowledge or who practice as a minority in the diverse or multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-cultural contexts.

Submission deadline

Deadline for abstracts is: August 30, 2020.

The need for the book has been signalled by a number of leading publishers and we are currently in the process of negotiating contracts.

Please provide a 250-word abstract and a short bio (100 words) by the 30th of August 2020.

Draft chapters (between 3000-7000 words) will be due in the first half of 2021.

We encourage screen practitioners and practitioner-scholars (including postgraduate students) from diverse cultures, backgrounds and locations who engage with aspects of ‘difference’ to submit abstracts. Considered media may include cinematic and experimental films, television, web series, screenplays, mobile works and video installation.

Please send abstracts, and any questions, to arezou.zalipour@aut.ac.nz