*CFP* "ESTUDIOS DE FANS EN IBEROAMÉRICA", Nº38 (2022-2), REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

Estudios de fans en Latinoamérica

Revista Contratexto

Sección Dosier

Fecha límite: 15 de mayo de 2022

El número 38 de Contratexto se centrará en los estudios del fenómeno fan en Iberoamérica.

Editoras invitadas: María José Establés (Universidad de Nebrija, España), María del Mar Guerrero Pico (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, España), Johanna Montauban Bryce (Universidad de Lima, Perú). Se recibirán artículos originales o ensayos que aborden de modo preferente alguno(s) de lossiguientes ejes temáticos:

● Media fandom (series de televisión, cine, videojuegos, novelas, cómics y manga…)
● Otros objetos de fandom: música, deportes…
● Fandoms del ámbito hispanohablante y de la lusofonía (telenovelas, influencers, youtubers…)

*CFP* "FROM CINEMA CULTURE TO CINEMA MEMORY", THREE-DAY CONFERENCE

‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’

6 - 9 April, 2022

Lancaster University, UK

 

‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory’ is a three-day conference that invites speakers to discuss a range of themes relating to cinema culture and cinema memory. The conference will mark the climax of a 3-year AHRC-funded project, ‘Cinema Memory and the Digital Archive: 1930s Britain and Beyond’ (CMDA). The project gathers together a range of material relating to cinema memory in a comprehensive digital archive, a vast amount of which has been made available to view freely online for the first time. Information on this project can be found here. The relationship between cinema culture and cinema memory is explored in ‘From Cinema Culture to Cinema Memory: a Conceptual and Methodological trajectory’ (Kuhn, upcoming)

Key themes to explored at the conference are:

*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS, CRITICAL COMPANIONS TO POPULAR DIRECTORS SERIES

The series covers many directors who have not been studied previously in academic publications and whose works nonetheless are highly renowned nowadays. The intent of the series is to offer interesting and illuminating interpretations of the various directors’ films that will be accessible to both scholars of the academic community and critically-minded fans of the directors’ works. Each volume combines discussions of a director’s oeuvre from a broad range of disciplines and methodologies, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of the directors’ works. In this sense, the volumes will be of interest (and will be instructive) for students and scholars engaged in subjects as different as film studies, literature, philosophy, popular culture studies, religion and others. We welcome proposals for both monographs and edited collections that offer interdisciplinary analyses, focusing on the complete oeuvre of one contemporary director per volume.

Proposals may include (but are certainly not limited to) the following directors:

• Woody Allen; 
• Luc Besson; 
• Katryn Bigelow; 

*CFP* "SPIES AND SECRET AGENTS ON EASTERN EUROPEAN SCREENS", SPECIAL ISSUE, STUDIES IN EASTERN EUROPEAN CINEMA JOURNAL

While various generic manifestations of popular cinema in Eastern Europe have attracted increasing scholarly attention, as testified, for instance, by special issues of SEEC devoted to sci-fi and musicals, a  research gap can still be observed regarding the espionage genre in the region, despite the fact that some of the Eastern European titles of this variety have become box office hits. The lukewarm academic interest in Eastern European spy thrillers thus far can perhaps be partly explained by the low cultural prestige of the genre and its assumed adherence to the hegemonies and realpolitik of the Cold War – implicit preconceptions that the proposed special issue is designed to address.

 

Aside from screen stories with a central focus on clandestine affairs, we also encourage studies on works that present secret agents in a range of generic frameworks, such as historical dramas, biopics or comedies.

• Some of the possible topics and approaches include:
• The espionage genre and cinematic secret agents before World War II
• Spy films and Cold War

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, I INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF CINEMA AND FILM ANALYSIS

I International Symposium of Cinema and Film Analysis (Online)

17-19 November 2021

 

We are delighted to invite proposals from academic researchers to be presented at the I International Symposium of Cinema and Film Analysis; organized by the CNPq research group CineArte – Cinema, Film Analysis, and Intellectual Experience. The event will be held online from 17-19 November 2021, and our goal is to deepen and broaden the exchange between research works centered on film analysis by gathering different perspectives, observing the outcomes when selecting different theoretical approaches and methodologies, and seeing how film language can be intertwined with numerous fields of study.

We are interested in the moving image studies, sound, film analysis definitions, case studies, changes throughout the time, and debates centered beyond movies, such as the interchange between other fields of study within the Arts and Human Sciences. The Symposium is a result of an interdisciplinary exchange between researchers who investigate the relationship between cinema, audiovisual, by selecting film analysis as a methodology within different usages and contexts. 

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

Indigenous African language media, also referred to as ethnic or minority language media in some contexts, encompass tools of communication, socialisation and community that Africans used during pre-colonial periods and are still in existence despite the advent of Western-styled media.

 

The research entity of Indigenous Language Media in Africa is inviting contributions in the form of essays and articles from interested individuals to honour his contributions to these various fields of knowledge in communication and journalism studies. These will be published in the form of a double blind peer reviewed festschrift. Possible topics to explore for submission to this book include:

• Media Representations: representations of gender, race, class and ethnicity in minority/African indigenous language news media;
• Practice-based studies: Cases studies that demonstrate the use of minority/African indigenous media of drama, songs, folklore, theatre for development communication or democratisation;
• Media texts and contents: Studies that utilise discourse analysis, thematic analysis and content analysis to analyse minority/African indigenous language media constructions of social reality in Africa;

*CFP* "AFRICA'S DIGITAL YOUTH: EXPLORING MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY COMPETENCIES AND PRACTICES", TRENDS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

Africa's digital youth: Exploring media and information literacy competencies and practices

Trends in Media and Communication Conference, 2021

19-20th October 2021

 

 

The conference will seek to catalogue scholarship on trends emerging around African youth’s digital media practices with a focus on their ability to access, analyze, create, share and use information from digital sources. We invite abstracts of empirical and conceptual papers relating to the theme. 

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• African youth’s fact checking practices
• Youth and social media activism in Africa

*CFP* "(DE)CONSTRUCTING ITALIANS: GLOBAL PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION OF ITALIAN CHARACTERS", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

(De)Constructing Italians: Global Production and Reception of Italian Characters

International Conference

Milan, December 2-3 2021

 

 

The conference will develop along two key dimensions. The first one, mostly narratological, will investigate the dynamics of the character in relation to the specificities of the texts and the relationships they establish with their user. The second dimension, chiefly socio-anthropological, psychological and economic, will focus on the relationships of characters with broader social and cultural processes.

Authors interested in contributing to the conference are invited to send an abstract (maximum 250 words, excluding bibliography), in Italian or English, to convegno.decoitalians@unicatt.it.

 

*CFP* "ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE, ECOLOGY AND FUTURE PRACTICES", ISSUE 10 (1/2), MIRAJ: THE MOVING IMAGE AND ART REVIEW JOURNAL

Issue 10:1/2 aims to imagine and examine how practices in artists’ film and video can be transformed by a dedicated attention to notions of the Ecological in its many expanded forms. We invite scholars, artists, writers, film-makers and curators to explore what our role can be in engaging with new ways of thinking and making in response to the climate emergency.

This issue of MIRAJ will therefore address key areas of critical concern, from the culpability of the moving image industry’s extractive and management practices, to the rich potential of the artistic and film making community to shape, challenge and disrupt dominant disciplinary knowledge and habitual practices and its role in the practical organisation of other futures.

 

We invite scholarly articles and essays that:

• Examine how dominant disciplinary knowledge and habituated practices of the moving image can be challenged and reimagined;
• explore the value of transdisciplinary and epistemological frameworks to offer new perspectives and models of practice;

*CFP* "ANIMATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. RETHINKING IMAGES AND TECHNOLOGY", 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

Animation in the 21^st Century. Rethinking Images and Technology

Roma Tre University

Rome, 25-26 November 2021

The conference aims to propose a reflection that examines the dynamics and mechanisms behind the creation of some of the most interesting national and international contemporary animation trends. The topics will place them in close connection with the current media scenario (cinema, advertising, videogames, the web, animated documentaries, TV series, contemporary art, digital culture) and with transmedia aesthetic and narrative forms originating from different cultural paradigms.

The conference will pay particular attention to the conjunction between theories and practices and between mainstream and experimental forms. Hence, it intends to investigate animated films as an industrial, narrative, aesthetic and ideological “system” promoting imaginaries, aesthetics, and values. It also delves into the production of artists who move on the borders, free from conditioning and devoted to the more advanced technological research. Therefore, the conference’s overall aim is to revitalize and address the concept of animation in contemporary visual culture, investigating its theoretical, historical, political, and cultural nature in relation to the new moving images.

*CFP* "POETIC INSURRECTIONS. ROMANTIC LEGACIES IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FILM AESTHETICS", INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES CONFERENCE

Poetic Insurrections. Romantic Legacies in Modern and Contemporary Film Aesthetics

Research Centre for Visual Poetics (University of Antwerp)

20-21 January 2022

 

The ‘return’ to Romanticism in the recent consideration of modernist cinemas (see Richard Suchenski, Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film; Daniel Morgan, Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema) can be taken as a way to frame the apparent contradictions in the work of a number of key figures: the revolutionary cinema of Jean-Luc Godard seems at odds with the seeming reactionism of a sanctification of natural beauty in his ‘late’ works. The strict materialism of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, in its turn, gave way to reflections on the necessity of myth and utopian ideals in the politicization of art. And although the cinema of Marguerite Duras is characterized by a destructive negativity, her films exhibit a minute attention to material presence. We believe that the same contradictions that characterize these works can be found in the films of a number of contemporary filmmakers - Chantal Akerman, Abbas Kiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing, Lav Diaz, Albert Serra etc. - allowing us to align them with the project of aesthetic modernism. It is our contention (one we share with Nancy & Lacoue-Labarthe, Rancière, J.M. Schaeffer and others) that this project can indeed best be approached by considering its romantic undercurrent.

*CFP* CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS, "ECO_MEDIA III: EVER-NEWER NORMALS", RMIT UNIVERSITY (MELBOURNE)

 eco_media III: ever-newer normals

eco_media 

RMIT University, Melbourne ( and online)

31 August, 2021

 

 

The eco_media project will run its third annual symposium in 2021. The symposium’s steering panel invites proposals for papers that sit at the nexus of theory, philosophy, empirical research, and creative practice. The aim of the eco_media project is to understand how environmental issues, questions, and concerns are communicated through media forms, and to play at the borders of disciplines including media and environmental studies, philosophy, and communication theory.

*CFP* "REFOCUS: THE FILMS OF THE DARDENNE BROTHERS", BOOK CHAPTER

The Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) have been  recognised as important filmmakers in European cinema, claiming the Palme d’or at Cannes on more than one occasion. The filmmakers’ names have become shorthand for film production in Belgium (alongside Chantal Akerman and Jaco Van Dormael). They are also perceived as key European auteurs, creating and producing films that comment on relevant issues and debate in contemporary (Western) Europe and its socio-political context(s).

Some themes that would benefit from further scholarly attention include:

• Religion/ Christianity in the Dardenne brothers’ films.
• The ethics of the Dardenne brothers’ films
• The Dardenne brothers as European auteurs
• Collaborative authorship and the Dardenne’s filmmaking team (e.g. Marie-Hélène Dozo)
• The Dardenne brothers’ films and the modes of production, distribution and exhibition
• The representation of childhood in Walloon social realism
• Social Engagements/ Social Justice on screen

*CFP* "RACISM, NATIONALISM AND XENOFOBIA", 4TH INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

 "Racism, Nationalism and Xenofobia"

4th International Interdisciplinary Conference

InMind Support

26 - 27 July 2021 (Online)

We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history, politics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, economics, law, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, fine arts, design, memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical sciences, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, cognitive sciences et al.

​Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses.

*CFP* "TOWARDS DECOLONISING MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND FILM STUDIES IN AFRICA: CRITICAL PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES", BOOK CHAPTER

Given that the curriculum and the classroom are central to processes of shaping next generation media, communication and film scholars and practitioners on the continent, the proposed edited volume adds to the abovementioned scholarship by exploring pedagogical approaches to Decolonising Media, Communication and Film Studies in Africa. Chapters addressing the themes and sub-themes listed below or on content that contributors may deem pertinent to the main theme of the book are welcome. 

These are:

• Disrupting coloniality in curricula, teaching and classrooms in Africa
• The history and decolonisation of media, communication and film studies curricula in Africa.
• Who needs to decolonise: Are all curricula the same?
• Historical transformations in teaching media, communication and film studies in Africa
• Media, communication and film studies and manifestations of coloniality in ‘postcolonial’ Africa
• How were/are lecturers constituted in colonial and contemporary media, communication and film studies education in Africa?
• Who//should teach media, communication and film studies in Africa?
• Identities and positionalities in decolonising the curriculum
• Stakeholder perceptions on decolonising the curriculum
• Decolonising research methods and theory in media, communication and film studies
• Centering Africa, African knowledges, experiences and thinkers in the curriculum as part of decolonisation
• Canonical thinkers and canonical texts: What do we do with the White (mostly) male Western thinkers that have been the backbone of many modules?
• What do decolonised media, communication and film studies look like?
• How were/are students constituted in colonial and contemporary
• media, communication and film studies education in Africa?
• What knowledges, histories, and experiences do students bring to the classrooms?
• Decolonising the ways we see students (being sensitive to students’struggles): Re-thinking of students as whole people who are sometimes contending with trauma that can be triggered by some course materials (the importance of providing trigger warnings for students for certain readings and videos screened in the course)
• Centering student engagement and decentering the idea of an all-powerful and all-knowing university/academics
• Engendering critical thinking skills: Equipping students to be African citizens
• Case studies of decolonised curricula and teaching practice in media, communication and film studies
• State, institutional, departmental autonomy: When does decolonizing the curriculum begin
• Covid-19, distance learning and decolonisation of the curriculum

 

Papers submitted for consideration should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. All papers will be subjected to a blind peer reviewing process. Final acceptance of chapters is subject to successful peer review. If interested, please send an abstract (250 words maximum) together with a short biography. 

 

Please email abstracts to decolonisingmedia@gmail.com by 30 June 2021. 

 

The deadline for full articles is 1 November 2021. Final papers should not exceed 6,000 words.

*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL TRACES", NEXT ISSUE, RESEARCH IN FILM AND HISTORY JOURNAL

The peer-reviewed OA online journal Research in Film and History invites proposals for its next issue "Audiovisual Traces"

Andrey Tarkovsky approached filmmaking as “sculpting in time,” which means that film is able to “capture time.” In the recorded form, as a final product, a film leaves traces through time that can be preserved, reproduced, recontextualized, as well as forgotten and lost. Along this line of thought, these audiovisual traces acquire both temporal and spatial dimensions, material and mnemonic capacities. In this regard, e.g. archival footage filmed in the German Democratic Republic and reused or recontextualized in the German post-reunification cinema can be approached as audiovisual traces, as well as cinematically established representations of the Holocaust carefully reproduced in contemporary fiction films like „Persian Lessons" (Vadim Perelman, 2020).

In the next issue, Research in Film and History invites scholars to critically reflect on the following questions: How can the notion “audiovisual traces” be conceptualized in regard to cinema and audiovisual artifacts of various historical periods and national contexts? What functions can audiovisual traces have? What methods and approaches can be applied to study audiovisual traces? How can audiovisual traces be collected, evaluated, reinterpreted, or even redesigned? We encourage submissions that apply or critically reflect on research methods on the intersection of history, film, memory studies, and digital humanities. We also invite proposals on articles, video essays, and other forms of audiovisual research that focus on theoretically informed case studies.

*CFP* "WRECK AND RUIN: THE CAR CHASE ON FILM", EDITED COLLECTION

Though a staple of the modern action genre, the car chase has attracted very little academic study. From its origins in the silent movie era to the breakneck chaos of the 1970s to its contemporary reliance on digital effects, the car chase is a quintessential cinematic sequence. Often the centerpiece of action films, car chases unify narrative, style, and spectacle to maximize the impact of the drama on spectators. 

 

And yet, despite their ubiquity, outstanding questions remain: What are the origins of the car chase, and how did it come to dominate the action genre? What stylistic changes have taken place over time in the way filmmakers execute these sequences on screen? What general trends in cinema history led to their saturation? How have filmmakers adapted to new technologies when designing, shooting, and editing car chases? What role do car chases play in defining visions of gender on screen? Are car chases pure spectacle, or can they be something more? The proposed volume intends to explore these questions and more, all with a defining goal: to explicate an important feature of cinema that has gone un-attended.

*CFP* "FILM STUDIES IN NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST ASIA AND EAST ASIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE RISING ASIA JOURNAL

The Rising Asia Journal invites academic articles on Film Studies focusing on the North East of India, South East Asia, China, the Koreas, Taiwan, and Japan within the following fields: History, Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Literary Theory, Film Ttheory, Culture, Cultural Studies, and International Relations and War & Society.

The papers must provide a new perspective and a fresh interpretation. They must be original, supported with scholarly research, and the must not have been published or under consideration for publication in any media in print or online.

Authors should submit Abstracts of 250 to 300 words along with the details of the author(s), (title, affiliation/position(s), address, and e-mail. The Journal is currently accepting Abstracts, and this Call for Papers is open until September 30, 2020.

*CFP* CALL FOR SHORT ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS, "NEW MEDIA REVIEWS" AND "TRANSLATIONS" SECTIONS, VISUAL STUDIES JOURNAL

A New Media Review is a short essay (2000 - 5000 words) or an interview (3000 - 6000 words) that focuses on some aspect of the visual in social and political life, which the author believes deserves more attention than it has generally received. These reviews should explore what is going on in the world of new media, whether on or off the web. These can include television serials; fiction or non-fiction films; exhibitions of fine and popular arts; installations; graphic novels of one kind or another; books that explore various aspects of applied visual reasoning and communication; new technologies of visual representation, and so on: anything for which an author can make a compelling case that it communicates information that an informed public should take seriously.

An NMR provides an opportunity to directly address a general audience; to develop an accessible personal voice, and to explore issues in contemporary society and culture, as well as explore aspects of our pasts that may have been ignored or neglected. It is also an opportunity to describe – and analyse – emerging trends bubbling up in our contemporary world.

Examples of New Media Reviews that have been previously published in Visual Studies include Elizabeth Chaplin’s essay on ‘Bruno Latour’s Paris Invisible/Invisible Paris’ (2007); Karen McCormick’s ‘Revisiting The Wire’ (2015); and Jon Wagner’s reviews of Michael Apted's UPfilmmaking project (2007) and 2016 – to name but a few. You can also find the latest NMR published here.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT GENERAL ISSUE, COLLOQUY JOURNAL

Colloquy is an open access journal published twice annually by postgraduate students in the Literary and Cultural Studies Graduate Research Program at Monash University.

We publish articles from across the theoretical humanities, including literary and cultural studies, critical theory, continental philosophy, film and television studies, communication and media studies, and performance studies. We also publish translations, creative writing and book reviews. All work, except for book reviews, is double-blind peer reviewed.

We are currently looking for submissions for our general issue, to be published in mid-2021. The deadline for submissions will be the 30th of April and authors will be notified as soon as possible about the outcome of their submission.

Our submission policies can be found here and our editorial team can be contacted using the following email address: arts-colloquy@monash.edu

The latest issue of Colloquy, a general issue, was published in December 2020: issue 39.