Documentary Ehtics

deadline for submissions: 
September 30, 2016
full name / name of organization: 
Post Script

 

 

POST SCRIPT:Essays in Film and the Humanities

Texas A&M University-Commerce Georgia Institute of Technology

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

DOCUMENTARY ETHICS

 

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities invites submissions for a special issue on Documentary Ethics.  The issue will be co-edited by Dr. Dan Geva, Documentary filmmaker and Research Fellow, the University of Haifa, and Dr. Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan, head of the graduate program for Film and Culture, the University of Haifa.

The editors encourage discussion of the tension between the universal ethical condition of the documentary form and practice and prominent case studies from Israeli and other national or state documentaries.  

Documentary ethics has been the focus of critical research in various disciplines for over a decade, reflecting the growing awareness of further intellectual and professional scrutiny. In light of these emerging tendencies and sensitivities in cinema studies and new avenues of thought, eminently titled by Hanssen and Walkowitz “The Turn to Ethics” (2000) in the humanities and social sciences, we are seeking innovative academic investigations of the interface between documentary ethics qua meta philosophical problem, especially with respect to its aesthetical realm and its applied, social, communicational, didactic, poetic, professional and cultural meanings, with regard to the documentary scene.

Post Script  encourages original manuscripts in this area of no more than 7,000 words from scholars and academics working in the fields of ethics, cinema studies, culture studies, documentary studies, communication, film philosophy, Middle Eastern and Jewish studies, as well as from documentarians and artists working with real-life images in various forms and genres.

The guest editors welcome submissions that:

  • interrogate cross-sectioning of applied ethics and meta-ethics;
  • illuminate the issues by using the body of work or specific films of Israeli documentarians, as well as others from around the world;
  • scrutinize evaluations of ethics as they exist in the critical literature on documentary cinema, documentary filmmaking, and cognate disciplines;
  • attend to related audio-visual documentary forms (e.g., television, digital media, art installations, archives, new-media, animation, and 3D-documentary and gaming presentations);
  • include substantive interviews with documentarians whose work challenges conventional morality.

We look forward to receiving abstracts of 300 words, 3-5 bibliographic references, and a short biography of 100 words by September 30th, 2016, at the following address: postscriptdocethics@gmail.com

On the basis of selected abstracts, writers will be invited to submit full manuscripts (5,000–7,000 words, revised abstract, 4–5 keywords), which will then go through a peer review process. Manuscripts must be in English.   Review essays up to 3,000 words are also welcomed.

 

Please note that Post Script does not reprint previously published material.

 

Do not hesitate to reach out to us if questions arise.

 

Sincerely,

 

Guest Editors

 

Dan Geva

dgeva1@staff.haifa.ac.il

 

Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan

Ygolan@research.haifa.ac.il 

 

 

For questions regarding Post Script that are not related to this special issue, please contact the general editor, Gerald Duchovnay:

 

Gerald.Duchovnay@tamuc.edu