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*  SPECTATOR:  CALL FOR PAPERS AND WEBSITE SUBMISSIONS  *
 
SPECTATOR is a bi-annual journal of film and television criticism published
by the University of Southern California.  We are currently seeking
manuscripts for the Fall 1997 and Spring 1998 as well as the new on-line
SPECTATOR.  See special issue details below.
 
 
*  Fall 1997  *
STREET SMART:  Media and the Urban Imagination
Editor:  Karen Voss
[see below]
 
*  Spring 1997  *
SIZE MATTERS:  The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition
Editor:  Alison Trope
[see below]
 
*  SPECTATOR ON-LINE  *
Editor:  Karen Vered
[see below]
 
 
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*  Fall 1997  *
STREET SMART:  Media and the Urban Imagination
Submissions Due:  October 1, 1997
 
        Investigating the coincident rise of urbanization and cinema has
recently energized significant trajectories within film history and theory.
Consideration of the "urban" - and its attendant perceptual, aesthetic and
ideological shifts - animates much of contemporary media scholarship's
attempts to think through the spatial dimensions of culture.  This issue
seeks cross-disciplinary approaches that extend this initial gesture within
specific historical contexts, as well as critical examinations of how the
urban problematic has been cast within media studies.
 
Possible essay topics include:
 
media representations of specific cities and national culture(s)  *
historical shifts in urban iconography as deployed in film/television  *
cultural geography and film/television  *  urban planning and
film/television  *   representing urban identities - race, gender and
sexuality in the city  *   city types/city values - flaneur, gangster, the
"modern" women, etc.  *  historicizing "urbanized" modes of
perception/consciousness  *   narrating urban
mobility/morality/mastery/infrastructure  *  representations of the inner
city  *  screening industrial and postindustrial landscapes  *  urban
nostalgia in film/television  *  European/American/non-Western models of
urbanity and film/television  *  Los Angeles schools of thought - cities of
modernity/postmodernity  *  theme-park/cinematic cities  *  Hollywood
studios and urban redevelopment  *  urban frontiers and new technologies  *
architecture and film/TV
 
Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago endnote
style to:
Karen Voss/Spectator
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
 
For more information or questions, please contact Karen Voss
[log in to unmask] or  (213) 740-3334
 
 
************************************************
 
Spring 1998
SIZE MATTERS:  The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition
Submissions Due: January 5, 1998
 
        While revisionist writing on film exhibition has significantly
incorporated an industrial economic paradigm, these studies do not always
account for the wider context of film exhibition that exists outside the
average commercial theater.  With new developments in cultural studies and
reception theory as well as current theories on popular geographies,
virtual spaces and new technologies, the scope of exhibition studies can be
reconfigured along original and more comprehensive lines.  This issue will
re-examine the history as well as the future of exhibition within two
distinct, yet interrelated spaces:  the public and the private (or
domestic) exhibition sphere.
 
Possible essay topics include:
 
        Public Exhibition Spaces:   the drive-in  *  big screen and
technological experimentation * the revival, repertory house  *  the film
society  *  the film festival  * museum or archive exhibition  *
avant-garde, political activist exhibition and independent outlets  *  the
sports venue, the concert venue  *  the theme park, public fair, expo  *
pedagogical and propaganda films
 
        Private Exhibition Spaces:  home theater systems  *  home movies,
home video  *  film on cable TV * film on  publicTV *  film on network TV
*  film on CD ROM, DVD, etc.  * film on the Internet
 
Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago endnote
style to:
Alison Trope/Spectator
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
 
For more information or questions, please contact Alison Trope
[log in to unmask] or  (213) 740-3334
 
************************************************
 
*  SPECTATOR ONLINE  *
 
       In addition to the printed journal, this year we are establishing a
website to support creative development for this new publishing venue. The
website will maintain the scholarly standards of the journal while
integrating new forms of representation with writing.  Interactive essays
with audio-visual illustration and hypertextual links allow authors to
exemplify critical and theoretical observations of media phenomenon in ways
impossible for print media.
 
Submissions may appear in both the print and online issues of SPECTATOR,
but the electronic journal will not replicate the print version.  If you
would like your print submission to be considered for the website, please
also include a description or layout for a website entry.  The description
should include suggestions for use of audio-visual media, hypertext links,
and visual design elements with respect to the scholarly content.
 
If you are not submitting a paper for consideration in a print issue, but
still would like to submit a website entry, please do so.  We will consider
submissions independently.  The themes of both print issues, Urban Space
and Exhibition Space, have particularly stimulating implications for
Cyberspace.
 
To submit a website entry that is not also a print submission, send your
materials by the designated print deadlines to:
 
Karen Orr Vered/Spectator
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA  90089-2211
 
For more information or questions, please contact Karen Orr Vered
[log in to unmask] or  (213) 743-2616
 
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