* SPECTATOR: CALL FOR PAPERS AND WEBSITE SUBMISSIONS * SPECTATOR is a bi-annual journal of film and television criticism published by the University of Southern California. We are currently seeking manuscripts for the Fall 1997 and Spring 1998 as well as the new on-line SPECTATOR. See special issue details below. * Fall 1997 * STREET SMART: Media and the Urban Imagination Editor: Karen Voss [see below] * Spring 1997 * SIZE MATTERS: The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition Editor: Alison Trope [see below] * SPECTATOR ON-LINE * Editor: Karen Vered [see below] ************************************************ * Fall 1997 * STREET SMART: Media and the Urban Imagination Submissions Due: October 1, 1997 Investigating the coincident rise of urbanization and cinema has recently energized significant trajectories within film history and theory. Consideration of the "urban" - and its attendant perceptual, aesthetic and ideological shifts - animates much of contemporary media scholarship's attempts to think through the spatial dimensions of culture. This issue seeks cross-disciplinary approaches that extend this initial gesture within specific historical contexts, as well as critical examinations of how the urban problematic has been cast within media studies. Possible essay topics include: media representations of specific cities and national culture(s) * historical shifts in urban iconography as deployed in film/television * cultural geography and film/television * urban planning and film/television * representing urban identities - race, gender and sexuality in the city * city types/city values - flaneur, gangster, the "modern" women, etc. * historicizing "urbanized" modes of perception/consciousness * narrating urban mobility/morality/mastery/infrastructure * representations of the inner city * screening industrial and postindustrial landscapes * urban nostalgia in film/television * European/American/non-Western models of urbanity and film/television * Los Angeles schools of thought - cities of modernity/postmodernity * theme-park/cinematic cities * Hollywood studios and urban redevelopment * urban frontiers and new technologies * architecture and film/TV Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago endnote style to: Karen Voss/Spectator School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 For more information or questions, please contact Karen Voss [log in to unmask] or (213) 740-3334 ************************************************ Spring 1998 SIZE MATTERS: The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition Submissions Due: January 5, 1998 While revisionist writing on film exhibition has significantly incorporated an industrial economic paradigm, these studies do not always account for the wider context of film exhibition that exists outside the average commercial theater. With new developments in cultural studies and reception theory as well as current theories on popular geographies, virtual spaces and new technologies, the scope of exhibition studies can be reconfigured along original and more comprehensive lines. This issue will re-examine the history as well as the future of exhibition within two distinct, yet interrelated spaces: the public and the private (or domestic) exhibition sphere. Possible essay topics include: Public Exhibition Spaces: the drive-in * big screen and technological experimentation * the revival, repertory house * the film society * the film festival * museum or archive exhibition * avant-garde, political activist exhibition and independent outlets * the sports venue, the concert venue * the theme park, public fair, expo * pedagogical and propaganda films Private Exhibition Spaces: home theater systems * home movies, home video * film on cable TV * film on publicTV * film on network TV * film on CD ROM, DVD, etc. * film on the Internet Please submit a 12-25 page, double spaced manuscript in Chicago endnote style to: Alison Trope/Spectator School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 For more information or questions, please contact Alison Trope [log in to unmask] or (213) 740-3334 ************************************************ * SPECTATOR ONLINE * In addition to the printed journal, this year we are establishing a website to support creative development for this new publishing venue. The website will maintain the scholarly standards of the journal while integrating new forms of representation with writing. Interactive essays with audio-visual illustration and hypertextual links allow authors to exemplify critical and theoretical observations of media phenomenon in ways impossible for print media. Submissions may appear in both the print and online issues of SPECTATOR, but the electronic journal will not replicate the print version. If you would like your print submission to be considered for the website, please also include a description or layout for a website entry. The description should include suggestions for use of audio-visual media, hypertext links, and visual design elements with respect to the scholarly content. If you are not submitting a paper for consideration in a print issue, but still would like to submit a website entry, please do so. We will consider submissions independently. The themes of both print issues, Urban Space and Exhibition Space, have particularly stimulating implications for Cyberspace. To submit a website entry that is not also a print submission, send your materials by the designated print deadlines to: Karen Orr Vered/Spectator School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211 For more information or questions, please contact Karen Orr Vered [log in to unmask] or (213) 743-2616 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.sa.ua.edu/screensite