Call For Papers: This is the Sea: Cinema at the Shoreline Edited by Brady Hammond, Victoria University of Wellington, and Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Melbourne We would like to propose a collection that looks at those films in which the relationship between the sea, shoreline and beach are of particular narrative, aesthetic, and ideological significance. This is the Sea: Cinema at the Shoreline will explore the ways in which the meeting places between land and sea offer up sites where complex issues around identity, belonging, otherness, nomadism, death, and renewal are played out. For the editors of this collection, the shoreline holds particular significance for understanding the way in which the relations between sea and land can create liminal, often transgressive, possibilities for representational and phenomenological encounters between people who 'find themselves' at the water's edge. In recent years, the question of space and place in cinema has provided fertile ground for analysis and discussion. For example, exciting work has emerged on; the rural in cinema (Fowler, Helfield, 2006); landscape and heritage (Higson, 2003); the geographies and trajectories of the city (Abbas, 1997, Clarke, 1997, Mennel, 2008); and on the complex, multi-relational, visual-mobile spaces of cine architecture (Bruno, 2002). However, little sustained work has taken place on this specific ('non') location, on this dry and wet landscape where key transformations and happenings take place. The editors intend for This is the Sea: Cinema at the Shoreline to be an exciting addition to the literature on cinema landscapes, offering valuable new insights into the way this location or site of transformation can be read and experienced. Indicative Themes Disaffected youth at the shoreline Suicide at the beach, at the water's edge Death (physical, existential, symbolic) Birth (physical, existential, symbolic) Love and romance at the beach The journey down stream The watery arrival of the monster/creature/alien The 'blockbuster' shoreline, beach The conquest/landing/occupation The harbour Ecology at the water's edge Deterritorialisation The beach as escape, hideout, prison, body Class, race, gender, sexuality and the beach The shoreline, beach, harbour as heterotopia of compensation and/or illusion Purification, renewal, and re-birth at the beach The beach, shoreline as national myth The sea as limit The beach as a site of nostalgia, play, innocence lost or regained Transgression, hedonism, at the water's edge The beach as a space, a location, a time of subtraction, of negative space Contemplation - the cerebral shoreline Colour sensation - the aesthetics of the beach, harbour. Indicative Films The Seventh Seal Jaws Planet of the Apes The 400 Blows Road to Perdition The Warriors Hana-bi, A Scene at the Sea, Sonatine, Kikijuro, From Here to Eternity Ponyo A Ma Soeur! Bhaji on the Beach Les Vacances de M. Hulot Coming Home 8 1/2 Cast Away Saving Private Ryan Blue Hawaii 300 Y Tu Mamá También Maborosi Dark City Blue Lagoon The Piano Rain On the Waterfront Brighton Rock Point Break The Big Wednesday Godzilla/Gojiro The Woman of the Dunes The Beach Rumble Fish The Secret of Roan Inish Floating Weeds Jason and the Argonauts Whale Rider Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Forgetting Sarah Marshall Submission guidelines and time line Enquiries and 500 word abstracts (attached as a word document) should be sent to Brady Hammond at [log in to unmask] and Sean Redmond at [log in to unmask] by the 1st April 2011. Accepted abstracts/contributors will be notified by the 1st May 2011 Articles of between 6,500-7,000 words due by 1st November 2011 Final Drafts by 1st February 2012 Brady Hammond is a completing PhD candidate in the Film Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, looking at violence and negative peace in the pre and post 9/11 blockbuster film. Sean Redmond is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Deakin University, Melbourne, and editor of the journal Celebrity Studies and author of Flowering Blood: the Cinema of Takeshi Kitano (Forthcoming, Columbia University Press) ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org