Sam Raimi was a fan of cinema since his earliest years and
before he was ten years old, he was making movies with an 8mm camera. From
Within the Woods (1978), the short that led to The Evil Dead (1981) and the
ongoing saga of Ash (Bruce Campbell), to such genre-bending and
genre-transcending work as The Quick and the Dead (1996), A Simple Plan (1998)
and For Love of the Game (1999) to the Spider-Man trilogy (2002, 2004, 2007),
which predate the MCU yet set the tone for the films to come, Raimi has
demonstrated himself to be a versatile and inventive director, knowledgeable in
genre, style, form, and cinema history.
We are currently soliciting abstracts of approximately 100
words for essays to be included in a book-length anthology on Sam Raimi’s
cinema to appear in 2021. As this volume
will be the first comprehensive study in English of all of Raimi’s work through
Ash vs. Evil Dead, this collection seeks to contextualize, problematize and
theorize his entire canon, with a desired focus on his underrepresented
films. Essays may focus on a single
film, group of films, themes and topics that pervade his work, his television
directing or influence.
Essays accepted and included in the refereed anthology
should be approximately 6,000 to 7,000 words referenced in Chicago endnote
style.
The Films of Sam Raimi will be a scholarly volume published
in the University of Edinburgh’s ReFocus series, examining American film
directors. Series editors are Robert
Singer, Gary D. Rhodes, and Frances Smith. ReFocus features a series of
contemporary methodological and theoretical approaches to the interdisciplinary
analyses and interpretations of the work of these American directors, from the
once-famous to the ignored, in direct relationship to American culture --its
myths, values, and historical precepts.
Please attach a curriculum vitae and abstract and email by
December 1, 2019 to both editors:
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (kwetmore@lmu.edu)
Ron Riekki (ronriekki@hotmail.com)
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