Deadline extended!
CALL FOR PAPERS
Camera Obscura is planning a special issue titled Fabulous! The Diva
Issue. From actual goddesses to 21st century divinities in film,
television, and popular music, the figure of the diva has captivated,
inspired, and appalled. She (and, maybe, he?) is larger-than-life
and carries with her the cultural and psychic baggage of individuals,
communities, and nations. We are looking for essays (5,000-6,000
words) and shorter "appreciations" (500-1400 words) that consider the
intersection of film, television, or music divas with gender,
sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class.
Submissions can address general aspects of cinematic, televisual, or
music divadom or can focus on particular divas. Shorter
appreciations should be written from a scholar-fan perspective,
although this approach might also inform the essays.
Among the topics submissions might address are:
The investments of particular groups or communities in divas
Divas and nation(alism)
The diva as commodity
Non-Western divas and notions of divadom
The case for the male diva
Genre and the diva
The social and/or psychic work of the diva
Feminism and the diva
The queer diva
Working class divas
New deadline for submissions is August 1, 2006. Submissions should
follow Chicago Manual of Style specifications for manuscript
preparation. Send submission to:
Professor Alexander Doty,
Special Issue Editor
Camera Obscura
Department of Film Studies
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4010
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Patricia White
Associate Professor, English Literature
Chair, Film and Media Studies
Swarthmore College
on sabbatical 05-06
646-733-7167 (cell phone)
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