REMINDER: CALL FOR ESSAYS Intentions Re-Figured—The Consumption and Production of Hollywood Cinema: Intersections in Nationality, Race, Gender, and Sexuality A Proposal for an Anthology edited by David Gerstner and Janet Staiger Ideas, abstracts, partial or full papers should be sent by December 1, 2000, to David Gerstner <[log in to unmask]) and Janet Staiger <[log in to unmask]>. A tentative deadline for final papers of approximately 8,000 to 9,000 words would be December 1, 2001. New York University Press is considering this anthology. This edited anthology will include essays that consider how directors, producers, scriptwriters, and other Hollywood and American artists have consumed Hollywood cinema in relationship to cinema and the other arts and how this cultural consumption enabled their creative practices in producing new American films. We are particularly concerned to think through how nationalities, race, gender, and sexuality are factors within these practices of consumption and production. Thus, the implications of the intersections of these individuals’ identities in the act of creative production require an extensive historical and textual analysis of their particular contexts. This collection has several historiographical objectives. It attempts to return to the problem of biographism, authorship, and intentionality in media. While we acknowledge the difficulties associated with asserting agency in the act of production, we believe that recent work in cultural studies on consumers of media texts reopens the door to a complexly theorized discussion of creative agency. We are also interested in a ‘biographism’ of cultural consumption and production that draws upon its complex historical relationship to nation, race, gender, and sexuality. We wish to draw upon recent theoretical work that re-conceptualizes individual identity as constituted via the intersections of material discourses, a conception of agency as a complex circumstance of position-taking. Theorizing this (contradictory) self has recently been aided by the concept of "intersectionality." Indeed, we use the term "intersectionality" as it is currently theorized in third-wave feminist scholarship and critical race theory so as to underscore the critical approach we take in this collection to the human subject. Intersectionality recognizes the interlocking and relational feature of identities. We are calling for essays that consider these issues in relation to specific individuals or groups of individuals. Because of our concerns, we would prefer all cases to involve someone (or group) with at least one non-hegemonic identity or identification. We would like the theoretical issues to be a significant portion of the essay but not to overwhelm an actual discussion of historical and creative matters. ********************************************************** Janet Staiger William P. Hobby Centennial Professor of Communication Department of Radio-Television-Film, CMA 6.128 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 USA 512-471-6653 (office) 512-329-5104 (home) 512-329-5144 (home fax) [log in to unmask] ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]