*CFP* "ONE SHOT HITCHCOCK: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO THE SCREEN", CHAPTER BOOK

One Shot Hitchcock: Contemporary Approaches to the Screen is an edited collection that interrogates poignant and memorable shots from across Alfred Hitchcock’s long transnational career. Each chapter takes one shot from a single film, beginning with his silent era and ending with Family Plot (1976). If Hitchcock is known as a director of suspense films, and films about murder, the shots discussed in One Shot Hitchcock are his crime scenes: these are the shots that resist being forgotten, these are the shots that repeatedly demand to be investigated, these are the shots in which Hitchcock’s influence on aesthetics and culture is at its most acute.

Taking Marilyn Fabe’s Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative and Film Technique as a model, each chapter of One Shot Hitchcock exemplifies a contemporary approach to the screen and screen culture. The book is structured in parts, each with a focus on a different ‘lens’ of film analysis: gender and sexuality, race, affect, film and philosophy, and film form are all used to interrogate single shots from Hitchcock’s films. In these essays the single shot from Hitchcock’s film not only illustrates the approach in question but also demonstrates how the single shot encourages us to rethink our approaches to the screen and screen culture.

We are seeking potential contributors to submit a proposal which includes a 300 word abstract to oneshot.hitchcock@gmail.com by the 14th October 2020. Selected contributors will be asked to write a 4000-6000 words essay (including bibliography) on their chosen shot.

We have already received proposals for The Man Who Knew Too Much (both versions), Rebecca, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Strangers on a Train, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, The Birds and Marnie and we encourage potential contributors to think beyond these films. We welcome proposals from all eras of Hitchcock’s career, but are particularly interested in papers on his British silent and sound era, television (such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and his late 1960s-1970s period.

Based on the abstracts we have already received we particularly welcome papers that take the following approaches to Hitchcock’s work:

• Philosophy
• Class
• Technology
• Race/ethnicity
• Affect
• Auteur theory
• Memory and history
• Queer theory
• (Trans)national cinemas/global cinemas

Please submit proposals as a Word document, with title, 300 word abstract, researcher’s full name, title, institutional affiliation (if possible) and short bio (max 100 words). Please save the file as your surname, Hitchcock film, approach.

The abstract should:

• Name the Hitchcock film, TV episode, screen text
• Provide details of the shot (place in narrative, details of cinematography, sound etc)
• Outline the approach to the screen adopted (with reference to key scholarship, as applicable)
• Explain how and why this particular shot is relevant for the approach adopted and/or for a critical understanding of Hitchcock's body of work.

We look forward to reading your proposals. If you have any questions about the co-edited collection, please contact Dr Melanie Robson or Mr Luke Robinson at oneshot.hitchcock@gmail.com