Please post. Call for Papers "A Screen of One's Own: New Perspectives on Women's TV Authorship" Spectator, Spring 2005 Deadline for Submission: November 20, 2004 Within the last few years, feminist scholars have begun to re-train their eyes on the question of the kinds of roles women have been and continue to be permitted to play in the production of television. In many respects, this trend in "recuperative" history echoes a similar project within the arena of feminist film studies and represents a shift away from the strict textual concerns of earlier efforts in feminist television criticism toward a focus on women's varying abilities to participate in the shaping of television. That is, in addition to chronicling the kinds or numbers of images of women that were allowed to circulate on television at various moments, such work endeavors to explain the qualities of the influence women have historically been able to exert on TV texts. As in most areas of feminist scholarship, such inquiries present difficult practical and epistemological questions. That is, given the institutional and societal structures that have often put women at a disadvantage in the realm of production, what sort of knowledge gets to count as "evidence" of female authorship? Is there any place in the field for a consideration of the "absence" of evidence? Moreover, given the critiques of authorship as a concept over the past few decades, what is at stake in insisting on the existence of female TV authors at all? What "new" light might feminist theory be able to shed on past and present TV texts? And finally, what possibilities do such efforts offer in terms of advancing the project of feminist TV criticism? The Spring 2005 issue of Spectator seeks articles, interviews and reviews that engage with the questions surrounding women's TV authorship in the following areas: * The relationship between TV authorship and star status * "Unconventional" notions of TV authorship * Female TV directors, writers and producers-past and present * Local/national/global media *TV animation *TV Music * The intersection between feminist theory and "popular" notions of feminism * "Alternative" exhibition spaces, such as public access, public television, the internet, or cable/satellite channels * Critiques of television authorship * Traditional "women's genres" * Female network executives * Production history * TV historiography Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to: Heather Osborne-Thompson School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies Lucas Building, Room 405 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 Attn: Spectator Submission [log in to unmask] One hard copy of manuscript should be submitted as well as a copy on disk. Submissions can also be emailed directly. Manuscripts should include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors, as well as the postal address, email address, and phone numbers for the author who will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Contributions should be no more than 5,000 words. They should also include a brief abstract for publicity and authors should include a brief biography of themselves. Rejected manuscripts will not be returned. Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration by any other journal. Book reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please include the title of the book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant works related to the field. Electronic Submissions and Formatting. Authors should send copies of their work via email as electronic attachments. Please keep backup files of all disks. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC format. Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all contributors as to image and text requirements. Current Board for Spectator Founding Editor Marsha Kinder Managing Editor William Whittington Issue Editor Heather Osborne-Thompson Subscription Information Spectator is a bi-annual publication. Individual issues cost $10.00. Institutional rate for US and Canada is $30.00 USD. All others $40.00 USD. Please contact the subscription editor for bulk discounts. To order a subscription, please send $15.00* for the current volume year to: University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies Lucas Building, Room 405 Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 Attn: Spectator Subscription Tel: (213) 740-3334 Fax: (213) 740-9471 *If you subscribe now, you will receive one back issue free (based on availability). For additional back issues, contact subscription manager and include $12.00 per issue. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu