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From Screen-L HQ: a New Email Project

2025-04-30T20:18:18+00:00

Dear Screen-L Subscriber,

I've embarked on a Screen-L-related project to which I would like to invite you to subscribe-a photography email newsletter. So, please forgive this intrusion into your inbox. [...]

Reminder! TWC Fans of Color Research Prize

2024-03-31T09:37:48-04:00

*TWC Fans of Color Research Prize*
*Deadline: May 1, 2024*

*Transformative Works and Cultures* is now seeking submissions for the 2024
Fans of Color Research Prize. The award recognizes the best peer-reviewed
article about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the
preceding 3 years (for 2024, no earlier than 2021) and furthers the
journal’s goal to support scholars whose work fills critical gaps in fan
studies literature about racially marginalized and/or non-western fans. The
winner will receive a $500 cash prize. [...]

Re: Whither Screen-L's Subscribers?

2024-03-28T20:07:57+00:00

Dear Jeremy,
Like everyone, I'm sad about the end of Screen-L. Thank you so much for your tireless work and this excellent resource. I was in touch awhile ago and mentioned that I'd subscribed (1992ish) as a grad student at UCLA. It felt like being a part of the best club ever.
Warmest regards,
Cynthia
-----Original Message-----
From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <SCREEN-L@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Sent: Mar 22, 2024 9:05 AM
To: <SCREEN-L@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
Subject: [SCREEN-L] Whither Screen-L's Subscribers? [...]

Whither Screen-L's Subscribers?

2024-03-22T16:04:47+00:00

Thank you, folks, for the kind words about Screen-L and the impact it's had on your scholarship. I took pleasure in reading comments such as Jason Mittell's (below) as it confirmed for me that Screen-L had achieved some of my original goals for it. [...]

CFP - Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship - Prague 23rd August, 2024

2024-03-22T07:38:10-05:00

Hello everyone,

I would like to share here the CFP for the conference "Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship " I am organizing at FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic on Friday, August 23, 2024. Considering the upcoming end of the [SCREEN-L] I would kindly ask you to share this CFP with your colleagues and anywhere where it may reach the required audience. [...]

Self-promotion new book on Anna May Wong

2024-03-21T22:31:50-07:00

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks so much for holding this space for us to gather and exchange all kinds of film/TV/media related information. I remember posting our job openings here, knowing that the word would reach a wide spectrum of audience. Thank you! [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T15:45:21+00:00

I curate a FB page called the Humanities and Media Studies Research Corner at
It doesn't do as much as SCREEN-L, but I post CFPs that may be of interest to researchers in Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt. Facebook--Humanities and Media Studies Research Corner at Pratt.
HMS Research Corner at Pratt Institute | New York NY | Facebook [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T15:19:18+00:00

Jeremy,

Thanks for all your work! The size of the archive mist be enormous--- it will remain a great resource for many years to come!

Thanks so much,
Mark [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T08:51:44-04:00

Thanks very much for all your work!
Monika

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 7:53 AM Karen Horsley <khorsley@swin.edu.au> wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on this over many years. I'm sad
> to see it go. I became involved around 2012 when I started my PhD and I
> have lots of fond memories of receivng the emails and feeling like part of
> something important.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Karen
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Film and TV Studies Discussion List <SCREEN-L@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on
> behalf of Barbara Baker <bbaker@RETIREE.UCMO.EDU>
> [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T12:32:14+00:00

The end of Screen-L feels quite meaningful to me. I joined in 1994 when I was a brand-new graduate student, and it immediately made me feel like I was part of an academic community and ongoing conversation much broader than my program. On sites like this, hierarchies of rank and seniority disappeared behind usernames, and I can honestly say that this email list fostered my dedication to digital publishing spaces and alternate forms of academic discourse, a focus that has remained a central part of my academic career. Huge kudos and many thanks to Jeremy for sailing this ship for [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T12:02:21+00:00

Hi folks,

This is a sad day indeed. Thank you so much for all your work, Jeremy and co.

As for “where do we go from here”: the mailing list of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, covers much the same ground, and does not solely relate to issues affecting the British context. To subscribe, click here<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=BAFTSS>. It’s a jiscmail list too! [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-21T02:44:23+00:00

Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on this over many years. I'm sad to see it go. I became involved around 2012 when I started my PhD and I have lots of fond memories of receivng the emails and feeling like part of something important. [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-20T12:42:11-04:00

Thank you for all of the hard work. I am so sad to see it go. A quick
question, where do we go from here? For info on publications, conferences
etc? This Subscription has been invaluable to me! [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-20T11:48:28+00:00

Thank you for all your work. This list was often a life raft for those of us stranded at out-of-the-way colleges. Best of luck to Jeremy . [...]

Re: [EXT] [SCREEN-L] In Media Res – Labor and the Moving Image

2024-03-20T07:35:04-04:00

*Complementing your focus* on the labor in producing film,
you may want to be aware of my 50yrs of research on 70 years of tv
sitcom *representations
of labor*.
For the last article see, Richard Butsch, "Class and gender thru seven
decades of American sitcoms," June Deery and Andrea Press eds, Media and
class, Routledge 2017. The first was Glennon and Butsch, "The family
portrayed on television" *Teleivision and Behavior: Ten Years, 1982, *and
Butsch and Glennon, "Social class: trends in prime time, 1946-1978, J of
Broadcasting 1983. [...]

Re: [EXT] Re: [SCREEN-L] The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-20T07:24:11-04:00

Jeremy

Thank you for creating and sustaining Screen-L for all these year from
before dot-com to world-wide social media today. What a change to ride and
survive!

Richard Butsch [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-20T12:02:09+01:00

Hey,

I am very sorry to hear that, it was a great source for me. Is there any
alternative? Where all subscribers will move? 😁

Thank you in advance for your response, [...]

Re: The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-19T20:39:17-05:00

As someone who has subscribed to this listserv for approximately 25 years,
I am sorry, and sad, to see it end. I do appreciate the link to the
archives. [...]

The Beginning of the End for Screen-L

2024-03-20T01:24:58+00:00

Hello, Screen-L subscribers,

The time has come for Screen-L to end its three-decade run.

Its first non-test message was submitted by Chris Amirault on Wednesday, 20 March 1991 at 19:15:43. I know these specifics because the ENTIRE Screen-L archive is online over here: [...]

In Media Res – Labor and the Moving Image

2024-03-18T22:14:15+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Labor and the Moving Image

This week on In Media Res: (March 19 - 22) [...]

Announcing: TWC 42, on Fandoms and Platforms!

2024-03-15T10:56:06-04:00

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!

TWC's issue 42 on “Fandoms and Platforms
<https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/81>” has
been released! This issue focuses on how the online spaces fans use
influence and shape fan activity. [...]

NRFTS Spring 2024 Special Issue & Special Dossier (vol. 22.1)!

2024-03-08T04:13:21+00:00

GUEST EDITED by OUTGOING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MARIA SAN FILIPPO
and SARAH LOUISE SMYTH & STEFANIA MARGHITU
New Review of Film & Television Studies

Spring 2024 (vol. 22.1)

Special Issue
Feminist Film/Media Now [...]

The latest issue of Projections has been published!

2024-03-05T16:36:28+00:00

Dear Colleague,

The latest issue of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind has published!

Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image: [...]

In Media Res - CFP: The Curse

2024-03-04T19:29:31+00:00

[https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/ZPbDKFDZLOWnd9AC9GyLfz0Qr-ldRN1lIgJOR0C5eE4Cz3HpDhB4pvKMq4yOXO-mT_Wn8BUmPnp4n3uduAmdQQK5eiII9RLQEE3icZJ49PSAmKca5Ynz_WEYq0uoqZakro4pEl5Ezt1zCU0Ths6p42E]

SPRING 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Curse

Theme week coordinator: Mychal Reiff-Shanks (Georgia State University)

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's fiction television show The Curse (Showtime, 2024) is a vibrant text for only one season. The show follows Whitney and Asher Siegel as they begin filming their first season of an HGTV-esque show. The show takes a surreal and fantastical approach to reality television issues, race, gender dynamics, and gentrification. In Media Res is looking for thought-provoking short pieces about The Curse. [...]

In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Robert Bresson

2024-03-04T19:23:21+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries

Subject Line: In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Robert Bresson

This week on In Media Res: (March 4 - 8) [...]

New open-access videographic book announcement

2024-03-04T13:32:59+00:00

Hi all,

I'm excited to announce that my newest book was just published - and to give everyone a free copy! It is the very first Videographic Book<https://www.leverpress.org/videographicbooks/>, mixing writing and more than 20 video essays. I've been working on it for a number of years, so it's such a pleasure to see it compiled and presented as a full-fledged ebook - open-access, peer-reviewed, fully archived and integrated into bibliographic systems! [...]

The Loneliness Room: A Creative Ethnography of Loneliness Website

2024-03-03T00:17:48+00:00

Dear friends, colleagues and lonely room storytellers,

I have created a website to ‘room’ a number of the creative submissions that were submitted for the loneliness room project: What's your loneliness room?<https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/lonelyroom> [...]

In Media Res - Barbie Podcast Episode

2024-02-28T18:51:42+00:00

In Media Res presents In Media Res: A MediaCommons podcast, a biweekly show hosted by Anthony Dannar and Mychal Reiff-Shanks, where they discuss past theme weeks with past contributors in a casual hour-long chat. In this past episode, we discussed Barbie! You can listen to the episode linked here<https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/anthony-dannar/episodes/Barbie-e2g635m?%24web_only=true&_branch_match_id=1155172154131493111&utm_source=web&utm_campaign=web-share&utm_medium=sharing&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXLy7IL8lMq0zMS87IL9ItT03SSywo0MvJzMvWT9X3DzAsd%2FOyTC%2F0SAIAk82rFTAAAAA%3D>. Hope you give us a listen and, even more so, hope to have you on the podcast. Check out In Media Res for weekly postings on various themes and ideas. [...]

JCC Special Issue Publication Announcement: Reimagining Queer Chinese Screen Studies

2024-02-28T15:38:05+08:00

Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for crossposting.

We are pleased to share the publication of the special issue "Reimagining
queer Chinese screen studies" with the *Journal of Chinese Cinemas* coedited
by Jamie J. Zhao and Hongwei Bao, which may be of interest to some in this
group. Some of the articles are open access on the journal's site. Please
kindly find its TOC and links copied below: [...]

In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image III

2024-02-27T01:31:51+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image III

This week on In Media Res: (February 26 - 29) [...]

Reminder: call for proposals for the 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference, Espinho, Portugal, 1-3 July 2024

2024-02-26T11:06:33-08:00

Dear All

A reminder (sorry/not sorry) that the deadline for the call for proposals
for the 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference in Espinho, Portugal, is the end of
February.

Call for Proposals starts:- [...]

Screen-L Needs New Moderator

2024-02-26T16:42:23+00:00

Hello, Screen-L subscribers!

Screen-L needs a new moderator(s). Could that be you?

Screen-L is a lightly moderated discussion list, running on LISTSERV software. What this means is that the moderator screens (hah!) submissions to make sure they are not spam and that they are pertinent to media studies. The moderator also looks to capture posts that are duplicates or that should be sent directly to one subscriber instead of distributed to the entire list. [...]

In Media Res – Children’s Television: Sesame Franchise

2024-02-26T03:55:43+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Children’s Television: Sesame Franchise

This week on In Media Res: (February 19 - 23) [...]

Call for Proposals: 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference, Espinho, Portugal, 1-3 July 2024

2024-02-23T08:52:36-08:00

IAMHIST Blog: new post

2024-02-20T10:54:48+00:00

Dear all,

In the latest blog for IAMHIST, I had the opportunity to review a press copy of the newly released Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (2024) courtesy of Aspyr/Crystal Dynamics, and you can read my thoughts here: Review, Tomb Raider I: Tomb Raider I – III Remastered, 2024, Aspyr/Crystal Dynamics/Saber Games, RRP: £24.99 (Steam/PC version) | (iamhist.net)<http://iamhist.net/2024/02/review-tomb-raider-i-tomb-raider-i-iii-remastered/> (Tomb Raider II and III to follow...) [...]

Casablanca's Conscience by Robert Weldon Whalen

2024-02-19T15:37:54+00:00

Dear SCREEN-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from Fordham University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

Casablanca's Conscience
Robert Weldon Whalen

https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781531504809/casablancas-conscience/

Receive a 20% discount online*:
LLF23
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2024. Discount only applies to the CAP website. [...]

CFP: Cinema and Beyond_____New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference

2024-02-03T13:55:32+03:00

Cinema and Beyond

23rd New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference
May 9-11, 2024
Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Cinema, since its inception, has been haunted by an inherent paradox: the
desire to transcend its own limitations for the direct representation of
motion, the world, life, and reality in its entirety. From early film
theories like Eisenstein’s Stereokino to Münsterberg’s and Balazs’
conceptualization of stereoscopic 3D, and from Bazin’s concept of *Total
Cinema* to Youngblood’s vision of *Expanded Cinema*, it has been framed as
inherently linked to the foundational telos of transcending its present
state. This foundational telos similarly defines its [...]

CFP

2024-02-02T18:25:34+03:00

Hello,
Hope this finds you well. I am one of the organizers of the New Directions
in Turkish Film Studies Conference. I am sorry if I am sending to the
wrong email address but I was wondering if you could circulate our CFP for
the upcoming conference.
Thank you in advance and all the best,
Resat

Announcing: TWC Fans of Color Research Prize

2024-02-01T10:32:26-05:00

*Transformative Works and Cultures* is now seeking submissions for the 2024
Fans of Color Research Prize. The award recognizes the best peer-reviewed
article about fans and/or fandoms of color published in *TWC* in the
preceding 3 years (for 2024, no earlier than 2021) and furthers the
journal’s goal to support scholars whose work fills critical gaps in fan
studies literature about racially marginalized and/or non-western fans. The
winner will receive a $500 cash prize. [...]

In Media Res – Barbie

2024-01-29T19:06:44+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Barbie

This week on In Media Res: (January 29 - February 1)

Here is the lineup: <http://mediacommons.org/imr/> http://mediacommons.org/imr [...]

I'm Not There by Noah Tsika

2024-01-29T11:57:07+00:00

Dear screen-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Texas Press, which we hope will be of interest.

I'm Not There
Noah Tsika [...]

Velvet Light Trap CFP Deadline Extension

2024-01-26T15:16:45-06:00

Hello,

We are Paxton Haven and Ryan David Briggs, the Co-Lead Coordinating Editors
for The Velvet Light Trap Issue #95. We are pleased to announce that we are
extending the submissions deadline for our issue, “Media Values.” In
addition to responses to our themed issue, we welcome submissions broadly
related to the journal’s focus on critical, theoretical, and historical
approaches to film and media studies. Submissions are due February 26th,
2024. [...]

In Media Res – Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code

2024-01-22T16:53:55+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code

This week on In Media Res: (January 22 - 26) [...]

Liquid Blackness: Journal of Aesthetics and Black Studies Receives the 2023 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial or Design Achievement

2024-01-18T20:51:12+00:00

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies is honored to have been conferred the 2023 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial or Design Achievement by the MLA-affiliated Council of Editors of Learned Journal<https://www.celj.org/about#:~:text=The%20Council%20of%20Editors%20of,scholarly%20journals%20in%20all%20disciplines.> in recognition of the commitment to both editorial and design excellence that is foundational to the history, scope, and mission of our journal’s public-facing commitment to the study of black avantgarde practices. The journal is co-edited by Alessandra Raengo (Founding Editor and Georgia State University Distinguished Professor) and Lauren McLeod Cramer (Assistant Professor, University of Toronto) [...]

Re: [EXT] [SCREEN-L] Guest lecture: Modern Media and the Representation of Work, Solent University, UK, Jan 30th

2024-01-17T07:44:51-05:00

You may have come across this which compares representations of manual v
mental *workers* across class

Richard Butsch, “Class and gender through seven decades of American
television sitcoms” in June Deery and Andrea Press, eds., *Media and Class:
TV, Film and Digital Culture* Routledge, 2017, 38-52. [...]

Guest lecture: Modern Media and the Representation of Work, Solent University, UK, Jan 30th

2024-01-17T10:57:34+00:00

--with apologies for cross posting--

"Films, novels, TV shows, history books... how do modern forms of cultural production negotiate the values which make sense of our labour? - values such as wealth, success, activity, efficiency..." [...]

Call for Proposals for the 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference, Espinho, Portugal, 1-3 July 2024

2024-01-16T11:48:02-08:00

Dear All

Apologies in advance for circulating this call a few times between now and
its deadline, together with any further details that evolve in the meantime. [...]

CFP: A Celebration of Star Wars (Abstracts due Jan 31)

2024-01-11T07:10:35-06:00

requisite apologies for cross-posting

*May the Fourth be with us all this year!*
The DePaul Pop Culture Conference's 11th annual conference will be held May
04, 2024, and the theme this year is "A Celebration of Star Wars." We
encourage panels/topics/papers about any aspect of Star Wars, Lucasfilm,
the franchise, Disney, the fandom, the production/reception etc. Abstracts
due Jan 31, 2024 and can be submitted at our website
<https://popcultureconference.com/2024-a-celebration-of-star-wars> (
https://popcultureconference.com/2024-a-celebration-of-star-wars) [...]

New Book on the TV Series Columbo by Amelie Hastie

2024-01-10T15:32:31+00:00

Duke University Press announces the upcoming publication of Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder<https://www.dukeupress.edu/columbo> by Amelie Hastie (February 2024).

Hastie examines the television show Columbo as a way to understand both the show itself, but also the history of Hollywood in the 1970s and television as a media technology. The show has had a resurgence in streaming recently and a new show, Poker Face, is a sort of homage to it. [...]

Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: Archive, Memory and Transnational Histories

2024-01-05T12:38:05+00:00

Apologies for cross-posting.

*Short Film in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: Archive, Memory and
Transnational Histories*

21st IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival
4-5 July 2024, Pernik, Bulgaria [...]

PROLONGATION DU DÉLAI - APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS (RÉSUMÉS) : CRITIQUE ESTHÉTIQUE DU FASCISME ET EXPRESSION HUMANISTE

2023-12-19T23:51:03+00:00

APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS (RÉSUMÉS) : CRITIQUE ESTHÉTIQUE DU FASCISME ET EXPRESSION HUMANISTE

Les éditeurs et éditrices ont le plaisir d'annoncer un appel à contributions pour le prochain numéro de Problématique, la revue des étudiant.es des cycles supérieurs en sciences politiques de l'Université York. Ce numéro est consacré à la critique esthétique du fascisme et à l’élaboration d'une esthétique humaniste. [...]

Deadline Extension - Call for Abstracts: Aesthetic Critique of Fascism and Humanist Expression

2023-12-19T23:40:24+00:00

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: AESTHETIC CRITIQUE OF FASCISM AND HUMANIST EXPRESSION

The editors are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the upcoming issue of Problématique, York University's revived Political Science graduate journal. The upcoming issue will be dedicated to the aesthetic critique of Fascist politics and the expression of humanist political aesthetics. [...]

New Book: Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media

2023-12-19T13:29:46-05:00

Dear all,

My book *Front Office Fantasies: The Rise of Managerial Sports Media* was
released through the University of Illinois Press earlier this month.

*Book Description:*
*Front Office Fantasies* argues American sports media has increasingly
centered around management – a phenomenon evidenced everywhere from sports
films that heroize front office executives to sports radio and television
programs that fixate on drafts and free agency to sports video games that
feature gameplay revolving around salary cap management. The book not only
details the industrial logics behind this managerial interest, like sports
media companies’ desire for inexpensive, year-round content, but also
explores [...]

Short Film Studies – Call for Papers Issue 14.2

2023-12-15T14:53:15-08:00

Dear Colleagues,

For the upcoming edition of the peer-reviewed journal *Short Film Studies *
(14.2)*,* in addition to the *ongoing open Call for Papers* that welcomes
submissions that reflect your critical and scholarly interests, manuscripts
are invited that focus on the *issue's featured auteur, *the legendary and
acclaimed *Jenni Olson*. A force in queer independent cinema as a
filmmaker, historian, curator, and archivist, Olson’s shorts include *575
Castro St. *(2009); the parody *Levi’s 501s Commercial *(1991); and *Blue
Diary *(1998). Several are available @ https://vimeo.com/jenniolsonsf [...]

Job Opening--Associate or Full Professor of American Media Industries Studies

2023-12-15T19:23:52+00:00

The Department of Film and Media at Emory University<https://filmandmedia.emory.edu/> in Atlanta, GA invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor with a research specialty in American Film and Media Industries. Appointment begins in August 2024. The successful applicant will join a growing, dynamic undergraduate program in an R1 research university which offers a Film and Media major and minor, a minor in Media Production, and a Concentration in Film and Media Management (a joint program with the Goizueta Business School). [...]

In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image II

2023-12-11T22:49:19+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image II

This week on In Media Res: (December 11 - 13) [...]

Call for Participants: Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop on videographic criticism

2023-12-10T01:38:46+00:00

Greetings,

If you have ever wanted to learn how to make video essays, check out the Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop, running June 16-29, 2024, at Middlebury College in Vermont. This will be the 7th iteration of the workshop, which has been widely seen as a very positive experience for participants. Applications are due February 12. Let me know if you have any questions and please spread the word!
https://sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/ [...]

Film-Philosophy Conference, Espinho, Portugal, 1-3 July 2024

2023-12-05T11:49:30-08:00

Dear All

This message is cross-listed with no apologies for the purposes of
registering with as many readers as possible. It is an announcement about,
and a call for papers for, the 2024 Film-Philosophy Conference, which will
be held on 1-3 July 2024 in Espinho, Portugal, in partnership with the FEST
Film Festival and organised with colleagues from the University of British
Columbia, the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),
and the Universidade de Coimbra. [...]

Seeking Theme Week Coordinators - In Media Res

2023-12-04T17:21:10+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks

Email: inmediares@gsu.edu

Category: Conferences & Calls
Subject Line: Seeking Theme Week Coordinators - In Media Res

We are currently accepting proposals for Spring 2024! Please visit our Current Calls webpage for information on how to become a Theme Week Coordinator. [...]

The latest issue of Screen Bodies has been published!

2023-12-01T16:54:57+00:00

Dear Colleague:

The latest issue of Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology has published!

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: www.berghahnjournals.com/screen-bodies<http://www.berghahnjournals.com/screen-bodies> [...]

Call for Papers: NYU 2024 Cinema Studies Conference (holding t

2023-11-30T22:41:08-06:00

holding the gaze
NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference
February 23-24, 2024

Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.

Over time, the idea of the gaze has been enshrined as a theoretical touchstone in film and media studies. In her canonical 1992 essay “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,” bell hooks (1952-2021) elucidated a form of critical spectatorship practiced by Black women viewers who have long been denigrated by the mainstream media and excluded from feminist film scholarship. hooks’ pathbreaking intervention facilitated a multilayered engagement with the gaze and opened up the concept to even more fruitful revisions. In the intervening thirty years, informed by critical race studies, gender studies, and postcolonial and decolonial studies, among other intersectional fields, the practice of employing an oppositional gaze to hegemonic media has remained vital. Following the pioneering lead of scholars such as Laura Mulvey, Manthia Diawara, and hooks, holding the gaze carves out a space for scholars, artists, and allied others invested in the past, present, and future of film and media to interrogate and speculate on modes of gazing.

Considering the gaze as both a valuable analytical tool and an object of inquiry in its own right, we ask: How has the gaze—oppositional or otherwise—evolved in the three decades since hooks’ essay was first published? How does an individual viewer’s opposition to (or acceptance of) the images they consume—be they Hollywood blockbusters, network news footage, or viral memes—inform the ways in which they operate in everyday life and the larger world? What power dynamics are at play in the gaze of cameras, creators, and audiences and how does that influence who gets to represent and be represented? What reconfigurations of the gaze emerge as we study digital media ecologies like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, among other platforms? How has the function of the gaze been destabilized by deepfakes and artificial intelligence? How have the politics of representation and identitarian symbols evolved alongside these changes in technology and what role do they play in shaping discourses concerning the gaze? What is the potential for invention and further resistance in the act of looking, especially when one’s gaze, like their presence, is neither considered nor solicited?

Cinema studies has urgently turned towards retroactive gazes, reparative gazes, speculative gazes, fourth-world gazes, and sovereign gazes, revealing the potential to modify repressive power dynamics. How might we best utilize this powerful tool to deconstruct today’s critical moment in arts politics, a moment shaped by the historical neglect of the “other” and movements made to dismantle the screen separating the represented from the real?

We invite you to the 2024 Cinema Studies Student Conference at New York University for an in-person gathering on Friday, February 23rd and Saturday, February 24th, 2024. We welcome fellow students across disciplines adjacent to cinema and media studies, art history, gender and performance studies, and various other fields who are investigating the moving image in some form or another. We are primarily seeking paper submissions, but encourage films, visual art, performance pieces, and other works in line with our focus on the gaze. Panel submissions of up to three applicants are also encouraged. Topics may include—but are not limited to—the following:
passive and active spectatorship
transnational perspectives
intersectionality
feminist thought
queer and trans studies
intent, agency, and power dynamics
genre discourse
24/7 news
the surveillance state
artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and other technological advances
social media
selfie culture

Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio of 100 words to holdingthegaze2024@gmail.com no later than Friday, December 8th, 2023. For those submitting non-paper proposals, please provide a brief summary of your work that does not exceed 250 words, along with any pertinent visual documentation (stills, videos, etc.) as links, rather than files.

Participants will be notified by early-to-mid January. We can’t wait to hear from you!

NYU 2024 Cinema Studies Conference Call for Papers: holding the gaze

2023-11-30T22:26:28-06:00

Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.

Over time, the idea of the gaze has been enshrined as a theoretical touchstone in film and media studies. In her canonical 1992 essay “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators,” bell hooks (1952-2021) elucidated a form of critical spectatorship practiced by Black women viewers who have long been denigrated by the mainstream media and excluded from feminist film scholarship. hooks’ pathbreaking intervention facilitated a multilayered engagement with the gaze and opened up the concept to even more fruitful revisions. In the intervening thirty years, informed by critical race studies, gender studies, and postcolonial and decolonial studies, among other intersectional fields, the practice of employing an oppositional gaze to hegemonic media has remained vital. Following the pioneering lead of scholars such as Laura Mulvey, Manthia Diawara, and hooks, holding the gaze carves out a space for scholars, artists, and allied others invested in the past, present, and future of film and media to interrogate and speculate on modes of gazing.

Considering the gaze as both a valuable analytical tool and an object of inquiry in its own right, we ask: How has the gaze—oppositional or otherwise—evolved in the three decades since hooks’ essay was first published? How does an individual viewer’s opposition to (or acceptance of) the images they consume—be they Hollywood blockbusters, network news footage, or viral memes—inform the ways in which they operate in everyday life and the larger world? What power dynamics are at play in the gaze of cameras, creators, and audiences and how does that influence who gets to represent and be represented? What reconfigurations of the gaze emerge as we study digital media ecologies like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, among other platforms? How has the function of the gaze been destabilized by deepfakes and artificial intelligence? How have the politics of representation and identitarian symbols evolved alongside these changes in technology and what role do they play in shaping discourses concerning the gaze? What is the potential for invention and further resistance in the act of looking, especially when one’s gaze, like their presence, is neither considered nor solicited?

Cinema studies has urgently turned towards retroactive gazes, reparative gazes, speculative gazes, fourth-world gazes, and sovereign gazes, revealing the potential to modify repressive power dynamics. How might we best utilize this powerful tool to deconstruct today’s critical moment in arts politics, a moment shaped by the historical neglect of the “other” and movements made to dismantle the screen separating the represented from the real?

We invite you to the 2024 Cinema Studies Student Conference at New York University for an in-person gathering on Friday, February 23rd and Saturday, February 24th, 2024. We welcome fellow students across disciplines adjacent to cinema and media studies, art history, gender and performance studies, and various other fields who are investigating the moving image in some form or another. We are primarily seeking paper submissions, but encourage films, visual art, performance pieces, and other works in line with our focus on the gaze. Panel submissions of up to three applicants are also encouraged. Topics may include—but are not limited to—the following:

passive and active spectatorship
transnational perspectives
intersectionality
feminist thought
queer and trans studies
intent, agency, and power dynamics
genre discourse
24/7 news
the surveillance state
artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and other technological advances
social media
selfie culture

Please submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio of 100 words to holdingthegaze2024@gmail.com no later than Friday, December 8th, 2023. For those submitting non-paper proposals, please provide a brief summary of your work that does not exceed 250 words, along with any pertinent visual documentation (stills, videos, etc.) as links, rather than files.

Participants will be notified by early-to-mid January. We can’t wait to hear from you!

IAMHIST Blog

2023-11-30T16:15:20+00:00

Dear all,

Published this week in the IAMHIST Blog, Alan Corley reports on the IAMHIST Challenge-funded event, 'Researching Cinema in the First World War', organised by Veronica Johnson and hosted at Maynooth University: http://iamhist.net/2023/11/researching-cinema-world-war-workshop-report/ [...]

Velvet Light Trap CFP

2023-11-29T12:19:55-06:00

Please find below the CFP for *The Velvet Light Trap* issue 95. Thank you!

CFP: Media Values

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025) [...]

NRFTS Winter 2023 Issue (21.4) & more!

2023-11-29T09:45:08+11:00

Full message available at: NRFTS Winter 2023 Issue (21.4) & more!

In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image I

2023-11-27T13:00:00+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: Critique and the Moving Image I

This week on In Media Res: (November 27 - 30) [...]

IAMHIST Blog

2023-11-23T13:16:43+00:00

Dear all,

Published this week in the IAMHIST Blog, Dr Qi Ai (Shandong University, China) writes on the topic of 'New Year Films in Spring Festival: Documenting and Reviewing Life': New Year Films in Spring Festival: Documenting and Reviewing Life | (iamhist.net)<http://iamhist.net/2023/11/year-films-spring-festival-documenting-reviewing-life/>, covering the history of films released during the Chinese New Year and how they are reflective of societal change. [...]

Interdisciplinary Studies Department, Chair: Job Post

2023-11-21T01:45:31+00:00

Please circulate:

Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies - Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Clemson University, College of Arts and Humanities

Description

Launched on July 1, 2023, the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Clemson University seeks an exceptional academic leader for the position of Department Chair, a tenure-line position with faculty rank of Professor, to begin August 15, 2024. Advanced Associate Professors with an exemplary record of achievement in university research, teaching and service at a level sufficient to qualify for appointment as a tenured Professor will also be considered. We seek candidates with a PhD in at least one of the areas [...]

African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

2023-11-20T09:12:00+00:00

Dear screen-L subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication Indiana University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization
Volume 2: FESPACO—Formation, Evolution, Challenges
Edited by Michael T. Martin & Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré [...]

IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History 2024 Call for Papers

2023-11-20T09:08:01+00:00

The International Association for Media and History

University College Cork

and

The Irish Film Institute

IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History

(IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History 2024 Call for Papers |<http://iamhist.net/iamhist-master-class-2024-call-papers/>) [...]

New Book: Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique: Bloomsbury Academic

2023-11-17T09:41:29+00:00

--apologies for cross posting--

Dear all,

I’m delighted to announce the hardback and e-book publication of my new monograph Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique,<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/film-negation-and-freedom-9798765105535/> now available from Bloomsbury Academic. It will appeal to students of film theory and philosophy, and anyone who enjoys the work of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson! [...]

Call for Abstracts: Aesthetic Critique of Fascism and Humanist Expression

2023-11-16T14:44:44+00:00

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: AESTHETIC CRITIQUE OF FASCISM AND HUMANIST EXPRESSION

(Voir ci-dessous pour la version française)

Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference (New Orleans, 2/15/24-2/17/24; deadline 11/15/23)

2023-11-11T16:16:07+00:00

CRITICAL APPROACHES TO BLACK MEDIA CULTURE

Four Points by Sheraton French Quarter -- New Orleans

February 15-17, 2024
Proposal Deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Black media studies stands as one of the most vibrant and vital areas of film and media studies. This conference seeks to bring together scholars working within the area to reflect on the history, present, and future(s) of the field. The hope is to draw in scholars who are emerging and established, working in US and global contexts, applying a variety of methods, and studying every dimension from production to consumption. [...]

The latest issue of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind has been published!

2023-11-08T17:55:49+00:00

Dear Colleague,

The latest issue of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind has published!

Published in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image: [...]

In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: From Screen to Pleat: Deleuzian Inflections in Visual and Media Discourses

2023-11-07T17:24:59+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – SPECIAL ISSUE: From Screen to Pleat: Deleuzian Inflections in Visual and Media Discourses [...]

Su Friedrich by Barbara Mennel

2023-11-06T10:30:00+00:00

Dear screen-L Subscribers,

We would like to announce a new publication from the University of Illinois Press, which we hope will be of interest.

Su Friedrich
Barbara Mennel [...]

In Media Res – Reactionary Fandom

2023-09-25T20:08:12+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Reactionary Fandom

This week on In Media Res: (September 25 - 29)

Here is the lineup: <http://mediacommons.org/imr/> http://mediacommons.org/imr [...]

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Media Studies - Pitzer College

2023-09-19T16:35:45+00:00

Dear All:

Pitzer College is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Media Studies.

Thank you,

Office of the Dean of Faculty
Pitzer College
www.pitzer.edu<http://www.pitzer.edu>

Job Ad:

Pitzer College seeks applicants for a tenure-track position, at the level of assistant professor, in ecomedia. A Ph.D. or M.F.A. is required by the time of appointment. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in and deep engagement with the research, production, community-engagement, and other hybrid praxis in ecomedia. Desirable foci include environmental/man-made catastrophe, industrialization, anthropogenic climate change, interspecies relations, ecojustice, environmental racism, consumerism and waste. The Pitzer Media Studies Field Group, in [...]

Insects in the Backyard (Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, 2010)

2023-09-19T10:38:14+00:00

Dear Colleagues

I’d like to teach Tanwarin Sukkhapisit’s 2010 film Insects in the Backyard in my class on women filmmakers. However, I can’t find a copy of the film here in the UK. If anyone has any suggestions for how I can access the film, I’d be very grateful. [...]

(Deadline Extended!) SCMS Translation/Publication Committee: Call for Translations, 2023-2024

2023-09-15T09:41:59-05:00

Society for Cinema & Media Studies–Translation/Publication Committee
in collaboration with
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

CALL FOR TRANSLATIONS, 2023-2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPT. 30th, 2023

JCMS: Journal for Cinema and Media Studies publishes one translation of outstanding scholarly
and creative work on cinema and media studies. The Translation/Publication Standing Committee
of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies coordinates this annual Call for Translations, and
shepherds the selected submission into a completed manuscript for publication in an upcoming
volume of JCMS. The originals may be in any language and come from any period or geographic
region. We welcome [...]

Part-time Assistant Teaching Professor (Screenwriting)

2023-09-13T08:25:32-07:00

The Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington invites applications for a part-time Assistant Teaching Professor (a non-tenured, renewable, promotable, 0.5 FTE position) in screenwriting. This position has an anticipated start date of Autumn 2024 and an annual service period of nine months (September 16 through June 15). Area of expertise is open, but the department is especially interested in candidates with professional training and experience in screenwriting and non-fiction writing for various forms of media. Positive factors for consideration will include experience as a writing professional with demonstrated connections to and success in the current [...]

10-day Countdown to 10-Year Liquid Blackness Anniversary

2023-09-12T01:22:21+00:00

Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side

Symposium schedule – Free and Open to the Public

Please RSVP for Thursday night reception here<https://liquidblackness.com/contact>

Opening Night

Thursday (Sept 21, 2023), 6-8pm –Kopleff Recital Hall, GSU [...]

In Media Res – Special Issue: liquid blackness Presents: Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side

2023-09-11T15:28:50+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Special Issue: liquid blackness Presents: Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side [...]

Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side

2023-09-08T02:13:27+00:00

Music Video as Black Art: Claiming the B-Side
Symposium schedule – Free and Open to the Public
Please RSVP for Thursday night reception here<https://liquidblackness.com/contact>

Opening Night
Thursday (Sept 21, 2023), 6-8pm –Kopleff Recital Hall, GSU
15 Gilmer St SE, Atlanta, GA 30303 [...]

New Book: Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance

2023-09-07T17:15:21+00:00

Dear Colleagues,

My book, Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance, has been recently published. If it is of interest to you, discount information is below. [...]

CFP: Children's Literature Association Conference (Madison, WI; 5/30-6/1)

2023-09-06T00:02:53-05:00

*Children's Literature Association 2024 Conference*

*May 30 - June 1, 2024*

*Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor's ClubMadison, Wisconsin*

*Theme: Looking Back, Looking Forward: ChLA at 50*

As we approach the 50-year anniversary of the Children’s Literature
Association’s founding, we gather to reflect on the past, present, and
future of our field. [...]

Short Film Studies Journal – Call for Papers, Issue 14.1

2023-09-05T11:16:48-07:00

Dear Colleagues,

For the upcoming edition of the peer-reviewed journal *Short Film Studies *(
14.1)*, *in addition to the ongoing open Call for Papers, which welcomes
submissions that reflect your critical and scholarly interests about short
films and media, essays are invited that focus on the issue's featured
auteur, *Charles Burnett*, whose shorts include *The Horse *(1973); *Quiet
as Kept *(2007); *Several Friends *(1969); and *When it Rains *(1995).
Also, the issue’s featured short film is *Wasp* (2003), directed and
written by *Andrea Arnold*. [...]

In Media Res – Media and Marginalized Trans Identities

2023-09-04T15:43:20+00:00

Name: Mychal Reiff-Shanks
Email: inmediares@gsu.edu
Category: Announcements and Queries
Subject Line: In Media Res – Media and Marginalized Trans Identities

This week on In Media Res: (September 4 - 8) [...]

Lecturer III position in TV Production at University of Michigan

2023-09-02T09:52:55-05:00

Full message available at: Lecturer III position in TV Production at University of Michigan

Groundhog Day – A series of roundtables by IERLab

2023-09-01T06:46:51+00:00

Full message available at: Groundhog Day – A series of roundtables by IERLab

Extended deadline: Kenny G: Meanings and Musics CFP

2023-08-28T20:50:49+00:00

Deadline Extended: Sept. 30, 2023

Please see the following CFP for a new edited collection on Kenny G. We are particularly interested in Kenny G's media presence. [...]

New Book - Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age

2023-08-27T20:08:58+03:00

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book, Exploring
Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive, from Amsterdam
University Press.

Warmest wishes,
Ebru Kayaalp and Nezih Erdoğan [...]

NRFTS Fall 2023 Issue (21.3) & more!

2023-08-26T10:38:04-04:00

*New Review of Film and Television Studies*

Fall 2023 Issue (21.3)
*Dear Colleagues, *

*It is our pleasure to announce the publication of our Fall 2023 issue
(vol. 21.3), featuring articles by C* [...]

Media Industries Publishes Vol. 10, No. 1

2023-08-24T11:00:00+10:00

*Media Industries* is pleased to announce the publication of its latest
issue 10.1 <https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/>. It is a compendium
of scholarly conversations about contemporary trends and developments in
media industries. The issue also features reviews of some notable books
that advance media industry scholarship. [...]

Seeking 4th Panelist for SCMS 2024 - "Enfleshment in the Fleischer Studios"

2023-08-22T12:00:18-05:00

Hello!

The panel “Enfleshment in the Fleischer Studios: Rendering Race and Animating the Other” is seeking a fourth panelist for SCMS 2024 in Boston. Please see further details in the CfP below. [...]

New book: Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film

2023-08-21T09:57:14-05:00

Dear colleagues,

I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book “Reframing Trauma in Contemporary Fiction Film, just out with Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books in hardback and e-book. For library recommendations please be advised that the book can be ordered at 30% off the list price using the code LXFANDF30 at rowman.com. More information about the book can be found at: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793651952/Reframing-Trauma-in-Contemporary-Fiction-Film [...]

Special Issue of Pop Comm CFP---Queer Women's Fandom

2023-08-20T23:00:08-04:00

Dear Colleagues,

Our apologies for cross-posting.

We are writing to circulate the CFP for the special issue "*Queer Women's
Fandom: New Global Perspectives*" co-edited by Jamie J. Zhao and Eve Ng to
be published in 2024 (as issue 3) in the journal of *Popular Communication*.
Please kindly find the full call copied below. [...]

URGENT: Seeking Additional Panelist for SCMS 2024 - "Enfleshment in the Fleischer Studios: Rendering Race and Animating the Other"

2023-08-17T14:11:27-05:00

Hello!

The panel “Enfleshment in the Fleischer Studios: Rendering Race and Animating the Other” seeks another panelist for SCMS 2024 in Boston. Please see further details in the CfP below. [...]

Assistant Professor position in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California

2023-08-17T17:04:00+00:00

The Division of Cinema and Media Studies at the School of Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in media studies at the Assistant Professor level, with a particular interest in the industries, histories, theories and technologies around television across its many shifting meanings. We are looking for applicants who take a critical approach to analyzing issues of power, difference, and materiality. [...]

CFP: The Medieval in Cyberspace

2023-08-17T13:01:27+00:00

The call for proposals has been extended for this 100% online conference. The conference will be run both synchronously (live) and asynchronously (posted presentations with asynchronous discussion during the period of the conference).
For more information, such as registration costs, visit:
https://medievalisms.org/conferences/preliminary-information/
October 26-28, 2023
International Conference for the Study of Medievalism<https://medievalisms.org/>
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2023 [...]