Call for Papers: Media Games: The Quiz & Game Show Reader

Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and the Visual Media
             (Continuum publishers)

This international volume, aiming to be published in 2004, seeks
contributions from people with an interest in field.

Some of the areas to be covered might include:

History of sound cinema -- different periods
New Technologies in cinema sound
multimedia and sound
pioneers of sound
composers
adverstising sound
Voice
Visual arts and sound
Voice Recording
Tape, CD & DVD
Film Genre and sound
etc
etc
etc

Chapters will likely be in the vicinity of 5,000 -- 10,000 words, depending
on scope of the chapter topic.

Submissions are invited for a proposed volume of essays on the subject of
=93Modernism and Mourning.=94 The collection will investigate the impact of
the =93work of mourning=94=96or alternatively, of resistance to that =93work=94 (what
Martin Jay has called the =93refusal to mourn=94)--occasioned by the Great War
on modernist literature in the inter-war years. It will concentrate on the
role of mourning (or its =93refusal=94) in producing the decentered or
alienated modernist subject and in shaping the formal features commonly
thought to define literary modernism. It will also consider the
importance of those connections for discussions of the politics of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 13 January 2002

                          M/C - Media and Culture
             is calling for contributors to the 2003 issues of

                                M/C Journal
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/

The award-winning M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a
crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and
peer-reviewed journal.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scope, a fully refereed online journal of film studies, edited by staff
and postgraduate students within the Institute of Film Studies at the
University of Nottingham, is looking for film reviews of 1,000 to 1,500
words and review essays of 2,500 to 3,000 words to be included in
forthcoming issues. We are interested in both recently released movies and
retrospective reviews of older films (especially if these films have just
been released on video or DVD, or have been the focus of renewed critical
attention.

Norman Mailer will turn 80 in 2003, and a special issue of Journal of
Modern Literature will commemorate his 50+ years of achievement with a
special issue, focussing on Mailer's publications since The
Executioner's Song.

CALL FOR PAPERS
A Special Issue on Global Cinema

Call for papers

Compar(a)ison. An International Journal of Comparative Literature

Thematic issue on:
"Narrating the law. An overview of law and literature in a comparative
perspective"

In the last few years various researches have shed light on the intertwining
between law and literature from an interdisciplinary perspective taking into
account different kind of texts, such as legal acts, trial proceedings, novels,
dramas etc mainly with reference to one culture.

CALL FOR PAPERS:
An Anthology Concerning Film and Television Depictions of
Children on the American Frontier
Deadline: June 1, 2003

70TH ANNIVERSARY OF TROPIC OF CANCER

I AM CURENTLY SEEKING PAPERS CONCERNING ANY ASPECT OF
TROPIC OF CANCER FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF A NEW JOURNAL
DEDICATED TO HENRY MILLER. ALL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED
TO BE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARDS BUT WILL NOT
NECESSARILY BE LIMITED TO ACADEMIC STUDIES PER SE.
DELIBERATELY OBSCURE WORK IS NOT SOUGHT. THE OBJECTIVE
IS TO REACH A WIDE BUT INFORMED AUDIENCE.

**Apologies for cross-postings**

"Cultural Politics of Food" Special Issue of the Massachusetts Review

CALL FOR PAPERS

The editors of the SOUTHERN LITERARY JOURNAL invite submissions for a
special issue focusing on southern autobiography--black or white, male or
female, classic or contemporary--and the autobiographical impulse (as
manifested in fiction as well as autobiography and memoir) endemic to
southern authorship. Articles emphasizing new approaches, new readings, or
previously neglected authors and works are particularly desired.

Issues in Writing
Call for Papers

Special Issue: Electronic writing/publishing
Deadline: April 1, 2003

As electronic media and software increasingly influence the ways in which
writing is done, taught, and published, new issues arise for writing in
this environment; therefore, Issues in Writing, a refereed journal, is
seeking submissions for a special issue exploring the implications of the
current trends in electronic writing.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Special Issue:
PSYCHOLOGY AND THE POLITICAL:
INTERROGATING LIBERAL GEOCULTURE

Guest editor:
Dimitris Papadopoulos, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany

Articles are invited that consider the relations between psychology and
the political with particular respect to the interconnection between
psychology and contemporary liberal geoculture. We seek contributions
which attempt to address the question of post-liberal forms of social
organization and the role of psychology, if any, in these. Please
consider that the space in the special issue is limited. Deadline for
submissions is August 31, 2003.