call for papers

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     From H-Film.
     
     Chris
     
     
     Date:    Tue, 22 Jul 1997 21:25:51 -0700
     From:    Ken Nolley <knolley at willamette.edu>
     Subject: CFP: Film & TV
     
     From: Darryl Wiggers <darryl at pathcom.com>
     
     *  SPECTATOR:  CALL FOR PAPERS AND WEBSITE SUBMISSIONS  *
     
     SPECTATOR is a bi-annual journal of film and television criticism 
     published by the University of Southern California.  We are currently 
     seeking manuscripts for the Fall 1997 and Spring 1998 as well as the 
     new on-line SPECTATOR.  See special issue details below.
     
     
     *  Fall 1997  *
     STREET SMART:  Media and the Urban Imagination
     Editor:  Karen Voss
     [see below]
     
     *  Spring 1997  *
     SIZE MATTERS:  The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition
     Editor:  Alison Trope
     [see below]
     
     *  SPECTATOR ON-LINE  *
     Editor:  Karen Orr Vered
     [see below]
     
     
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     *  Fall 1997  *
     STREET SMART:  Media and the Urban Imagination
     Submissions Due:  October 1, 1997
     
     Investigating the coincident rise of urbanization and cinema has
     recently energized significant trajectories within film history and 
     theory.
     Consideration of the "urban" - and its attendant perceptual, aesthetic 
     and ideological shifts - animates much of contemporary media 
     scholarship's attempts to think through the spatial dimensions of 
     culture.  This issue seeks cross-disciplinary approaches that extend 
     this initial gesture within specific historical contexts, as well as 
     critical examinations of how the urban problematic has been cast 
     within media studies.
     
     Possible essay topics include:
     
     media representations of specific cities and national culture(s)  *
     historical shifts in urban iconography as deployed in film/television  
     *cultural geography and film/television  *  urban planning and
     film/television  *   representing urban identities - race, gender and
     sexuality in the city  *   city types/city values - flaneur, gangster, 
     the "modern" women, etc.  *  historicizing "urbanized" modes of
     perception/consciousness  *   narrating urban
     mobility/morality/mastery/infrastructure  *  representations of the 
     inner city  *  screening industrial and postindustrial landscapes  *  
     urban nostalgia in film/television  *  European/American/non-Western 
     models of urbanity and film/television  *  Los Angeles schools of 
     thought - cities of modernity/postmodernity  *  theme-park/cinematic 
     cities  *  Hollywood studios and urban redevelopment  *  urban 
     frontiers and new technologies  *architecture and film/TV
     
     Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago 
     endnote
     style to:
     Karen Voss/Spectator
     School of Cinema-Television
     Division of Critical Studies
     University of Southern California
     Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
     
     For more information or questions, please contact Karen Voss
     kvoss at scf.usc.edu or  (213) 740-3334
     
     
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     Spring 1998
     SIZE MATTERS:  The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition
     Submissions Due: January 5, 1998
     
     While revisionist writing on film exhibition has significantly
     incorporated an industrial economic paradigm, these studies do not 
     always account for the wider context of film exhibition that exists 
     outside the average commercial theater.  With new developments in 
     cultural studies and reception theory as well as current theories on 
     popular geographies, virtual spaces and new technologies, the scope of 
     exhibition studies can be reconfigured along original and more 
     comprehensive lines.  This issue will re-examine the history as well 
     as the future of exhibition within two distinct, yet interrelated 
     spaces:  the public and the private (or domestic) exhibition sphere.
     
     Possible essay topics include:
     
             Public Exhibition Spaces:   the drive-in  *  big screen and
     technological experimentation * the revival, repertory house  *  the 
     film society  *  the film festival  * museum or archive exhibition  *
     avant-garde, political activist exhibition and independent outlets  *  
     the sports venue, the concert venue  *  the theme park, public fair, 
     expo  *pedagogical and propaganda films
     
     
             Private Exhibition Spaces:  home theater systems  *  home 
     movies, home video  *  film on cable TV * film on  publicTV *  film on 
     network TV*  film on CD ROM, DVD, etc.  * film on the Internet
     
     Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago 
     endnote
     style to:
     Alison Trope/Spectator
     School of Cinema-Television
     Division of Critical Studies
     University of Southern California
     Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
     
     For more information or questions, please contact Alison Trope
     trope at scf.usc.edu or  (213) 740-3334
     
     ************************************************
     
     *  SPECTATOR ONLINE  *
     
            In addition to the printed journal, this year we are 
     establishing a website to support creative development for this new 
     publishing venue. The website will maintain the scholarly standards of 
     the journal while integrating new forms of representation with 
     writing.  Interactive essays with audio-visual illustration and 
     hypertextual links allow authors to exemplify critical and theoretical 
     observations of media phenomenon in ways impossible for print media.
     
     Submissions may appear in both the print and online issues of 
     SPECTATOR, but the electronic journal will not replicate the print 
     version.  If you would like your print submission to be considered for 
     the website, please also include a description or layout for a website 
     entry.  The description should include suggestions for use of 
     audio-visual media, hypertext links, and visual design elements with 
     respect to the scholarly content.
     
     If you are not submitting a paper for consideration in a print issue, 
     but still would like to submit a website entry, please do so.  We will 
     consider submissions independently.  The themes of both print issues, 
     Urban Space and Exhibition Space, have particularly stimulating 
     implications for Cyberspace.
     
     To submit a website entry that is not also a print submission, send 
     your materials by the designated print deadlines to:
     
     Karen Orr Vered/Spectator
     School of Cinema-Television
     Division of Critical Studies
     University of Southern California
     Los Angeles, CA  90089-2211
     
     For more information or questions, please contact Karen Orr Vered
     vered at usc.edu or  (213) 743-2616