Please pass on to interested parties!
Due to an increased staff and budget, "to the QUICK" is extending its call
for Issue #3. We will also now be evaluating proposals for submissions.
Please note updated information below.
**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS**
to the QUICK
the journal magazine of media and cultural studies at Binghamton University
Who says "academic" writing can't be exciting?
CONTENT.
To the QUICK is seeking essays, articles, and columns (or proposals
outlining such projects) that perform thematic, theoretical, and cultural
analyses of media arts like TV shows, films, music, or cultural movements
or issues such as the recent rise of witchcraft, artificial intelligence,
representations of racism, etc. These media forms have in the past been
dismissed as unimportant cultural markers when measured against the mass of
"literary" studies. To the QUICK continues the work of media literacy and
cultural studies programs by drawing attention to the meaning existent in
all discussions and arts. We also take the notion of "interdisciplinary" to
heart, believing that each discipline is another way of reading the world
and yet is part of a very similar critical attitude. To the QUICK therefore
takes the stance that each discipline can--by writing in a carefully
contextualized fashion--say informative and fascinating things even to
readers outside of that field.
STYLE.
If not already implicit, you should make clear how your analysis is
culturally relevant, what issues your reading is bringing up. The less the
subject is popular or well-known, the greater the need to point out this
cultural relevancy rather than relying on the weight of a theoretical
framework.
It is not necessary that essays implement critical theory. However, theory
is a way of reading the world and can be useful and exciting. Essays should
still avoid one of the pitfalls of academic writing: the dropping of
esoteric terms or phrases without context. Careful emphasis should be
placed on the relevancy of allusions and terminology; the reader should not
have to wallow through a dense litter of meaningless prose.
Three quick tips:
-Describe your subject with enough context so that the reader does not have
to have read/seen/experienced the subject in order to understand and
appreciate your argument.
-If your essay was written for a class or published elsewhere, go through
it and revise it enough to have a TTQ "slant," explaining special terms or
theories to make an "outsider" interested. This is the whole point of to
the QUICK.
-TTQ does not publish film or music reviews.
SUBMIT.
Essays and articles: 4500 words maximum
Columns: 250 - 1750 words
Book reviews: 500 - 1000 words
NEW DEADLINE: Monday, April 3, 2000 (postmarked by) for completed articles
and proposals. Once we determine which proposals TTQ will pursue, these
contributors will then have an additional month or so in which to submit
the completed articles.
Indicate a word count for all text, including endnotes. Style should be
according to the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. We are also
interested in reprinting pieces published elsewhere. TTQ also needs pieces
for our three columns: The Obligatory Old Book Review takes an "old" book,
author, or theorist and presents an original argument as to how and why the
author's ideas still apply to or are reflected in today's society; The
Rewrite Department uses experimental non-fiction to comment on contemporary
cultural issues; and Slipstream picks out an event of cultural significance
from the contributor's life, describing and analyzing it in a memoir-like,
creative style. For examples of these, peruse our journal magazine on-line
at www.agoron.com/~matthewk/quick.
Our current Fall 1999 issue may be purchased by mailing a check (payable
to "Joe Bisz," the Managing Editor) for $5.00 each plus shipping ($1.18 up
to three copies, $1.58 four to six) to our address below. This issue
features essays on Xena: Warrior Princess, Comedy Central's 'Cow and
Chicken', IKEA furniture company, and the lyrics of Tupac Shakur, among
others.
Feel free to query with essay, column, or artwork ideas. Queries
recommended for book reviews. We occasionally publish "feature" articles
that are a little longer; let us know if your piece has been truncated.
Electronic submissions are preferred in RTF, Word, or WordPerfect format
<tothequick@hotmail.com> but you may also mail manuscripts or
correspondence to:
to the QUICK
English Department
PO Box 6000
Binghamton University
Binghamton, New York 13902
Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for our reply, and enough postage
if you would like your material returned. to the QUICK takes FNA print and
electronic rights for all non-artwork published.
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