Forwarded by Jeremy Butler. For more information, contact [log in to unmask] >To: "SCS Archive List" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 16:01:52 -0500 > > The Stanford Humanities Review > >********************************************************************* ****** > > > A Call For Submissions > > > Inside the Cinema ARCHIVE: Practice, Theory, Canon > >********************************************************************* ******* > > >This special issue of the __Stanford Humanities Review__ brings together >historical, economic, social, cultural, technological, and practical >perspectives to address previously overlooked questions concerning film, >film archives, history, methods, and canons. > > >Topics might include: > >* film archives and documentary films >* archival research, or the pursuit of elusive/illusive originals >* the relationship between national film archives and national "canons" >* pre-documentaries and early cinema >* preservation and classic Hollywood cinema >* film archives of the Third World >* challenges and conundrums in film preservation >* the role of private film collectors and collections >* future technologies in film preservation and restoration >* the disjuncture between rotting "artifact" and cultural text >* film as object-fetish >* the role of corporations and commerce in film research and "canonicity" >* film editions >* sexuality/textuality in/of "ephemeral" film > > > > > __ The Stanford Humanities Review__ is an award-winning publication >that explores current cultural, social, and political issues in an >on-going interdisciplinary dialogue. Each issue of the journal centers on >a contemporary intellectual debate and includes contributions from a range >of authors or artists within a multi-national perspective. The journal >publishes many cultural orientations and methodological standpoints, >written in an array of formats that typically would not appear in the same >journal. SHR provides Stanford faculty and many other respected scholars >with the valuable and often unique opportunity to write for an audience >outside their respective disciplines. Our interdisciplinary approach >allows authors to see their own work in a broader intellectual and >artistic context than is generally offered by disciplinary journals. > > > >The deadline for submission is April 1, 1998. Proposals and queries >should be directed to: > >Richard M. Benjamin >Modern Thought and Literature >Building 70, Room 71E >Stanford University >Stanford, CA 94305 > >For more information, e-mail: [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.