CALL FOR PAPERS: Animation - An Interdisciplinary Journal We are now seeking articles for early issues of Animation, a new journal from Sage. Please contact the editors listed below for full submission details. Overview: Especially since the digital shift, animation is increasingly pervasive and implemented in many ways in many disciplines. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal will provide the first cohesive international refereed publishing platform for animation that unites contributions from a wide range of research agendas and creative practice. The scope of the journal is comprehensive, yet its focus is clear and simple. The journal addresses all animation made using all known (and yet to be developed) techniques -- from C16th optical devices to contemporary digital media -- revealing its implications on other forms of time-based media expression past, present and future. Special features will include new theories and methodologies, radical contemporary practice, microanalyses of individual films, archive news, teaching, learning and research resources and industrial innovations foregrounding specific disciplines and their interrelations with others. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal will be a dynamic forum for promoting exchange between a multitude of disciplines and will facilitate a much-needed academic dialogue for the interdisciplinary nature of animation studies. It will be essential and stimulating reading for academics, researchers, students, curators and practitioners in animation, film and media studies, cultural studies, critical theory, architecture, art & design, computer sciences, games studies and visual culture. The journal is keen to encourage both established and emerging scholars. Topic coverage is wide-ranging and includes: Animation Aesthetics Computer Aided Design The Architectural Imagination of Animation Edutainment, Propaganda and Ideologies Computer Game Aesthetics and Play Theory Blockbusters, Auteur and Independent Animation Remediation and Innovation Advertising, Commerce and Mobile Telephony Beauty in Animation Cognition, Empathy and Audience Documentary Animation The Animated Baroque Feminist Approaches to Animation Diasporas, Ethnicity and Representation The Animated Body Optical Entertainment Technologies Comics and Animation, Manga and Anime Animation in Sci-Tech and Medicine Animation in Fine Arts Practice Queer Animation Studies Phenomenological Approaches to Animation Animated Photography Flash, Machinima and On-Line Communities Ethical Responsibility in Animation Music, Sound and Voice Animated ‘Worlds’ of Poetry and Literature Pre- and Post-Digital Hybridisation Submissions: Articles should be between 5000-7000 words. Reviews should be between 800-1200 words. Authors will be asked to provide a CD or diskette of the final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by at least two referees. The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with author’s name and date in the text and a full reference in alphabetical order at the end of the article. Australasian contributions should be sent to: Angela Ndalianis School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology, Room G31 Elisabeth Murdoch Building University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Email: [log in to unmask] North American contributions should be sent to: Bob Rehak Dept of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Ashton-Mottier, 1790 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA Email: [log in to unmask] All other contributions should be sent to: Suzanne Buchan Animation Research Centre Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS Email: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org