**ANNOUNCING THE FILM QUARTERLY ANNIVERSARY ESSAY PRIZE**
4 December 2007
Dear colleagues,
To coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Film Quarterly next year, we
are announcing a prize competition for essay-length film reviews (the
category is meant to be a generous one). The deadline is 31 March 2008.
Details are below. Please circulate widely and, above all, consider
submitting an entry. We would be delighted to receive it.
With kind regards,
Rob White, Editor.
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Film Quarterly
Anniversary Film Review Prize
Film Quarterly will award a prize of $500 for the best review essay
submitted in accordance with the rules of the competition.
In announcing this prize, we hope to encourage the practice of essayistic,
intellectual review-writing, which has somewhat declined in the face of
longer academic formats or shorter journalistic ones.
The prize offers an opportunity to write about any work or pair of works,
contemporary or historical.
The deadline for entries is 30 March 2008. The winning essay will be
published in the fiftieth-anniversary issue (fall 2008) of Film Quarterly.
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Notes
1. Essays in English (which must not have been submitted to any other
publication) should fall within the span of 25003500 words and should not
contain notes (though parenthetical references are acceptable).
2. Submission is, in the first instance, by email only:
[log in to unmask] Please entitle emails ³Anniversary Competition.²
Submitted essays will be acknowledged promptly and entrants whose work is
shortlisted (see 8., below) will be notified by 1 June 2008.
3. Although all entries are welcome, we especially encourage submissions
from younger academics and other writers.
4. Essays should concern themselves principally with one or two works and
should have no title other than the title(s) of the work(s) reviewed.
Comparative approaches are encouraged. ³Film Review² is a generic
description: essays concerned with video, television, and avant-garde work
are welcome.
5. The work(s) reviewed should be available on DVD (any territory) or
otherwise in the public domain. (There may be legitimate exceptions to this
rule, but no exception will be made unless there has been prior
correspondence with the editor.)
6. There is no restriction on the date of work(s) reviewed, but essays that
seek to explore contemporary issues‹especially the impact of digital
technology‹will be welcome. For example, an essay might compare a recent
film that utilizes digital technology to a work of early cinema. Entrants
should not, however, be at all deterred if they wish to write without any
new-media angle.
7. Entries will be judged by a panel. Please email the editor after 1
January 2008 to receive the names of the judges.
8. The process of judging shall be as follows. The editor will draw up a
longlist of up to fifteen essays. These will be discussed and scored by the
panel, leading to a three-essay shortlist. Panel members will then vote on
the shortlist; the winner shall be the essay with the most votes.
9. A winner and two runners-up will be announced on 15 June 2008.
10. The winner¹s prize will be paid on publication of her or his essay.
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