film and television

Call for Papers. ³Narrative Cinema as Autobiographical Act²

The original CFP for this collection had the wrong word count for submissions. The corrected CFP follows:

Shelves and shelves have been filled with scholarly attention to baseball in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.; likewise, shelves and shelves have been devoted to the study of humor (in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.). Yet, surprisingly little has been said about the relationship between the two.

Proposed is a collection of new essays on the relationship between humor and baseball (in American history, culture, literature, politics, etc.). Topics might include, but certainly are not limited to:

M. Night Shyamalan has emerged as a noteworthy American filmmaker -- he has even been compared to Hitchcock -- yet very little scholarly attention has been paid to his work.

As all of Shyamalan's films explore the encounter with, or the nature of evil, and as the scholarly examination of evil, ethics/morality, and religion has become a timely one, I am proposing a collection of new essays on evil and/in Shyamalan's films.

The working title for the collection is "'Those we don't speak of': Essays on Evil in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan".

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 1 March 2005

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
            is calling for contributors to the 'print' issue of

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

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.

How The West Was Won: New Perspectives on Transnational East Asian Cinema

Edited by Leon Hunt and Wing-Fai Leung

With the success of Hero, Ringu (and its Hollywood remake), Oldboy and Ong-Bak in the west, contemporary East Asian cinema has transcended geographical, cultural and theoretical boundaries. The articles in this collection will examine films from the Far East and their transnational consumption as an ever changing process, presenting new perspectives that contest existing frameworks in film studies.

Native Shakespeares (Book collection; 7/15/05)

Eds. Craig Dionne, Parmita Kapadia

Articles are solicited for a collection on the recent phenomena known as
Desperate Housewives – the darkly comic series about the ladies of Wisteria
Lane. Recipient of several awards including the People's Choice Award and
Golden Globe for Best Television – Musical or Comedy, Desperate Housewives
became the surprise hit of the television season. Has the series done for
suburban women what Sex and the City did for the single girl?

Announcement & Call for submissions

The third issue of Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception
studies, a new journal which aims to provide an on-line, interdisciplinary
forum for the fields of audience and reception studies, has just come out.

Issue #3 (January, 2005) includes an editorial by Martin Barker, Desiree
Boughtwood's 'View to be thin: Interrogating media's relationship to eating
disorders through audience research' and Janet Staiger's 'Cabinets of
transgression: Collecting and arranging Hollywood images', and various
reviews.

MT

CALL FOR REVIEWS

MT

MOVEABLE TYPE, the on-line postgraduate journal from the Department of
English Literature at University College London, seeks reviews for the
inaugural issue.

MT

REVIEWS of recent NOVELS * POETRY COLLECTIONS * FILMS * GRAPHIC NOVELS *
ON-LINE NARRATIVES * BIOGRAPHIES * CULTURAL THEORY * LITERARY/FILM CRITICISM
should be 4-600 words in length and sent to Kiki Benzon at
k.benzon_at_ucl.ac.uk by 1 April, 2005.

MT

CALL FOR PAPERS:
 A Camera Obscura "Archive for the Future"

Science Fiction: one universe?
Edited by Nick Heffernan and Lorna Jowett.

*Deadline now extended to 19 January 2005.

Having received preliminary interest from a publisher, we invite chapter
proposals or already completed essays for a collection focusing on the range
of different media within science fiction (film, television, literature,
comics/ graphic novels, computer games).

International Conference on Realism and Naturalism in Film Studies

The AIZEN (International Association devoted to Zola and Naturalism) and the
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Certificate Program in Film
Studies solicit submissions for a jointly-sponsored conference on "Realism and
Naturalism in Film Studies" to be held at the

CUNY Graduate Center,
New York City, USA
MAY 4-5, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society,
is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus
on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following
or related topics are particularly welcome:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 4 Nov. 2004

                          M/C - Media and Culture
                     http://www.media-culture.org.au/
             is calling for contributors to the 'bad' issue of

                                M/C Journal
                   http://journal.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.