CALL FOR PAPERS: Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society, is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following or related topics are particularly welcome: * Folklore representation in film and television; including myth, Märchen, legend, folksong and ballad, belief and custom, etc. * Film and television texts as folkloristic forms; including issues of variant texts, dissemination of beliefs/narratives, film/television as storytelling, etc. * Audience ethnographies/fan studies * Ethnographic (documentary) films * Children’s media and its relationship to folklore Deadline for 200-word abstracts is January 30, 2005 and completed papers (5000 – 6000 words) submitted by May 1, 2005. Please send attachments in Microsoft Word to Mikel J. Koven, Special Editor, <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask], or Sabina Magliocco, Editor <mailto:[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]>, or hard copy to: Sabina Magliocco, Editor, Western Folklore; Department of Anthropology, California State University – Northridge; 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8244. Submissions should conform to the Social Sciences format, Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition. Dr. Mikel J. Koven Lecturer, Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Studies University of Wales, Aberystwyth [log in to unmask] http://users.aber.ac.uk/mik ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html