*CFP: MEDIASCAPE Journal of Film and Media Studies - "Urban Centers, Media Centers"* *full name / name of organization: * Mediascape *contact email: * [log in to unmask] MEDIASCAPE, UCLA's open-access peer reviewed journal for film, television, and digital media, is still accepting submissions for the features section of its next issue. *FEATURES - “Mediating Urban Spaces”* The Features section of Mediascape seeks submissions that account for the plurality of ways in which media centers and the films, television programs, video games, digital media, and other forms of media are understood, as well as how they create, represent, and structure certain understandings of urban spaces, and how urban spaces account for the presence of media centers. We recognize that media does not flow in merely one direction. Indeed, as much as we are interested in studies of how the media centers of Los Angeles, New York -- or, more broadly, national and transnational media centers -- project certain ideas about the urban spaces around them, we are equally interested in work that analyzes how urban spaces absorb and represent the media centers which encapsulate, or run parallel to, them (such as how billboards, bus ads, and other forms use urban space to process the presence of these industries). Beyond narrative feature filmmaking and mainstream television, we are also interested in approaching these far-reaching questions in a variety of media forms such as documentary, independent and government-funded productions, gaming, journalism and news discourse, and digital media. Further, discussions of the relationship between urban centers and media centers need not be restricted to contemporary media. We are equally interested in historical explorations, such as visions of modernism in early 20th century cinema, as well as how historical urban centers have been reconstructed (such as Los Angeles in the films *Chinatown *and *L.A. Confidential*). Features seeks submissions that account for the multiple, complex ways that urban and media centers and spaces interrelate, how they visualize and map each other, and how they make this space legible through their visual representations. Topics may include but are not limited to... * Urban spaces in 3D or animation * How media work to re-fashion urban spaces (*Inception* and L.A.) * Urban spaces as part of genre discourse (*film noir*, superhero films) * Urban centers and fractured narratives (*Nashville*, *Short Cuts*) * Historical re-imaginings of urban spaces (*Gangs of New York*, *Chinatown* ) * Urban centers as viewing centers (reception studies, self-reflexive programming) * Do singular identities of “urban spaces” like New York City exist in a globalized media culture? * Video games and explorations of urban spaces (*L.A. Noir*e*, Fallout*, etc.) * Mapping of urban spaces in different mediums. * Journalism in new urban war zones (Arab Spring, media discourse on Egypt, etc.) * National cinemas and varying representations of urban centers * Interactivity between media producers and urban planners (Politics of location shooting, etc.) * Distribution of urban, national, transnational markets Feature submissions should offer new, unique perspectives on the mediation of urban spaces, and are encouraged to traverse multiple modes of thinking. Papers are accepted from both faculty and graduate students, and should be 15-25 pages in length, formatted with Chicago endnote citations, and include a brief biography of the author. Please direct feature section questions, proposals, and submissions to James Gilmore, Dennis Lo, Laura Swanbeck, and Daniel Langford at [log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]>by *April 30, 2013.* -- Daniel Langford Features Editor ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org