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----Launching a exciting new film studies journal, Unscene Film: New Directions in Screen Criticism, published by Film Forum and universities in the UK.
The journal is available in both internet and paper versions, with the inaugural Special Issue "Seventies Cinema", due for launch in Spring 2000.We enclose details of the journal's format and contents, and a call for papers.
UNSCENE FILM: NEW APPROACHES TO SCREEN CRITICISM
General Editors
Dr Graeme Harper Xavier Mendik Director School of Cultural Studies Centre for Creative and Performing Arts/ University College University of Wales, Bangor Northampton g.harper@bangor.ac.uk xavier.mendik@nene.ac.uk
Editorial Board/Peer Review Panel include: Michael Grant, University of Kent at Canterbury Dr Mikita Brottman, Indiana University Dr Julian Petley, Brunel University Professor Barbara Klinger, Indiana University Professor Barry Keith Grant and others currently being appointed
Unscene Film: New Approaches to Screen Criticism provides an open forum for new debates and innovative critical approaches to the study of film. The journal's readership includes film and media academics, screen journalists and film research students. The journal also encourages movement between film other arts discourses, and it is a policy of Unscene Film to avoid rigid formulations which narrow or compartmentalize cinema research. Unscene Film encourages creative and innovative criticism.
For example, the journal seeks to actively promote movement between what are often seen as "academic" and "journalistic" accounts of the cinema, as well as between reception and production; theory and method in cinema art; mainstream, cult and independent film; new and established film-makers and critics; the consideration of one historical condition and another; different cinematic regions. . . .
Essays/articles submitted for consideration are always subject to peer review.
In addition to its main essays, each issue also contains review/debate articles, interviews, book reviews and notices.
Suggestions for forthcoming Special Issues are welcome and can to addressed to the General Editors.
Current suggestions include:
1. Beyond Tarantino: New Narratives in Contemporary Hollywood 2. Filthy Money: Cult Cinema Audiences 3. Cinema Sounds: New Film Music 4. Beyond Third Cinema: Indonesian and Popular Eastern Film 5. The Big Bumper Book of Woo/Rodrigeuz 6. Attraction and Revulsion: Rethinking Silent Cinema 7. New Performance Criticism: New Hollywood Method CALL FOR PROPOSALS/PAPERS
Seventies Cinema Mad, Bad or Dangerous to Watch?
The first issue of Unscene Film: New Directions in Screen Criticism will consider the production and reception of cinema in the 1970s, with an emphasis on changes in American film production/reception during that era.
Suggestions for essays/articles on any of the following areas of interest are welcome:
[1] '70s changes in the organisation of the film industry [2] new narrative patterns [3] '70s representations of violence, race, gender [4] new audiences [5] strong '70s genres and distinctive traits (for example: blaxploitation, teen pic, new cult, horror, new music flick) [6] rethinking censorship in the '70s [7] post-'70s: cinema changes brought about by film-making of the period
Deadline for submission of Abstracts: 1st June 1999 Deadline for submission of completed essays/articles: 1st December 1999
------------------------------------- autoreply: Graeme Harper BA Litt DCA PhD Director Centre for Creative and Performing Arts University of Wales g.harper@bangor.ac.uk Web Page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/english/ccpa/creative.html
=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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