Dear Colleagues,
I'm now working on the special issue of Papers in Language and
Literature (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville) on avant-garde
and experimental film. On behalf of the journal's editor, Helena
Gurfinkel, and myself acting as the guest editor, I'm posting the CFP
for the aforementioned issue FYI. Perhaps it might be of interest to
some of you (if not, just ignore it).
Best regards,
Kornelia
PS. The same CFP has been just posted on Nico Carpentier's Commlist.
*Papers on Language and Literature****Special Issue*
*Decentring the Avant-garde: Landscape, Travel and the (Other’s) Gaze in
Experimental Film and Video*
As experimental film practice is still the most prevalent in (yet not
confined to) western Europe, North America and Britain, the special
issue of Papers on Language and Literatureaims to highlight the work of
filmmakers working on the margins of the avant-garde, including those
using traditional (8 mm or 16 mm) and new (hybrid) media formats, and
the ways they (re)address the questions of landscape, travel and the
other’s gaze. Although certain avant-garde films, including those made
by Vertov, Bolotowsky, Kubelka, Winkler, Lehman, Welsby, Snow,
Fischinger, Dutta, Rashidi, Takahiko, Frampton, Brakhage and others,
have received some attention from researchers, there exists a number of
underrepresented works, which use landscape and travelogue forms to
challenge the hegemonic master narratives and undermine the image of
majority groups and interests, continuously breaking the taboos and
censorship of the mainstream (film) culture. Likewise, this special
issue will hopefully extend the use of some recent revisionist theories,
which have moved beyond structuralist-formalist thinking to incorporate
intermediality and heterogeneity (Branden), spectatorship and (gendered)
body politics (Lambert-Beatty), corporeal turn in avant-garde film
(Osterweil), expanded cinema practices (Sutton), materialism (Walley) or
personal registers (Kase), to the study of landscape and travelogue
films, many of which clearly de-center formalist strategies.
To fill this gap, the proposed special issue of /Papers on Language and
Literature/ seeks contributions that discuss works of both renowned and
less known experimental filmmakers, particularly those working on the
periphery of the avant-garde film practice, which revision the
representation of landscape and travel through the other’s gaze. We
particularly welcome proposals, which analyze avant-garde and
experimental films and videos in the larger international and
comparative context that transcends a solely national perspective.
Submission details
Please send a paper proposal of approx 250-300 words and CV to the
editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska, at [email protected]. The
deadline for abstract submissions is December 1, 2019. Accepted
contributors will be expected to submit the complete articles of
5,000-6,000 words (including endnotes) by March 1, 2020.
/Papers on Language and Literature /is published quarterly at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville. It is indexed in Arts and Humanities
Citation Index, Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals
Index Online, Art Abstracts, Art Source, Humanities Abstracts, Art
Index, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language
Association Database, DIALNET.
Tentative timeline:
Dec 1, 2019: deadline for proposals (approx 250-300-word abstracts)
Dec 15, 2019: the editor makes selections and sends notifications which
proposals have been accepted/rejected
Mar 1, 2020: complete articles due
May 1, 2020: comments and suggested revisions due back to authors
July 1, 2020: completed/revised articles due
Oct 1, 2020: the editor sends copy for publication
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Kornelia Boczkowska, Ph.D.
Department of Studies in Culture
Faculty of English
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/boczkowska_kornelia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209
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