University of Southern California's Critical Studies Division announces their new website, SPECTATOR ON-LINE We are currently accepting submissions for the first version and the call is available through the website: http://acc02.annenberg.edu/spectator.html The website maintains the scholarly standards of the print journal while integrating audio-visual representation with writing. Interactive essays with audio-visual illustration and hypertextual links allow authors to exemplify critical and theoretical observation of media phenomenon in ways impossible with text alone. Suggested topics for interactive essays include Exhibition Space and Public Space, but we welcome proposals on other media concerns as well. To submit a website proposal, send a description or layout for a website, including suggestions for use of audio-visual media, hypertext links, and visual design elements with respect to the scholarly content. Send materials to: Karen Orr Vered/Spectator School of Cinema-Television Division of Critical Studies University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA USA 90089-2211 For more information or questions, please contact Karen Orr Vered at [log in to unmask] We are still accepting submissions for the print issue, SIZE MATTERS: The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition Deadline: 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 USA 90089-2211 For more information or questions, please contact Alison Trope at [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite