[csaa-forum] Studies in Australasian Cinema CFP: Imaging Religion and Spirituality

[Holly Randell-Moon]

Studies in Australasian Cinema is an international refereed
scholarly journal devoted to the cinema of, and film scholarship from, the
Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region. We would like to announce a call
for papers for the following issues:

 

Issue 5.3
(Dec 2011): Cities and Australasian Film and Television

Issue 6.1
(Apr 2012): Imaging Religion and Spirituality

 

5.3:
Cities and Australasian Film and Television

Editor: Ben Goldsmith

 

Cinema has long played a leading role in
the ways in which ‘the city’, either a particular place or a composite idea,
has been imagined, created, remembered, and experienced. Similarly in
television, the city looms large as physical location, imaginative setting,
metaphorical canvas and figurative backdrop for dramatic stories. This special
issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema seeks to explore urban spaces and
stories in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to:

 

·      
The representation and presence of particular cities in Australian and
New Zealand

cinema and television (Sydney, Auckland,
Melbourne, Wellington, Brisbane, Gold Coast, London, Los Angeles...)

·      
Representations of the city and city life in different genres, in local
or in international productions

·      
Film and television production practices and production cultures in
particular cities

·      
Cities in non-fiction film and television 

·      
Imaginary cities in Australian and New Zealand film and television

·      
The inner city and the suburbs in Australian and New Zealand film and
television

·      
Exhibition practices, filmgoing and television viewing in different
cities 

·      
Film, television and the branding and promotion of cities 

·      
Urban film and television tourism 

·      
Film, television and urban remediation

·      
 

Papers due:
September 2, 2011 

Contact: Ben Goldsmith, Centre for Critical
and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Email: b.goldsmith at uq.edu.au

 

6.1: Imaging
Religion and Spirituality in Australasian Film

Editors: Anthony Lambert and Holly
Randell-Moon

 

Issues of spirituality and religion have
long between central to the social, cultural and political rituals of many
countries and communities within the Australasian- Pacific Island and Oceanic
regions. Religion and secularism have also emerged as intense sites of
geopolitical conflict in Australasia since the initiation of a now decade-long
‘war on terror’. Cinema plays a vital role in the ways in which community,
citizenship, nationality and morality are imagined, normalised and debated. In
this special issue of Studies in Australasian Cinema we are seeking papers that
focus on filmic engagements with and representations of spirituality and
religion. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

 

·      
Representations of all forms of religious and spiritual practices
whether institutionally, ethnically or individually oriented, in different
genres and conventions of filmmaking, e.g. documentary, fiction etc.

·      
Representations on any aspect of religion and spirituality from within
Aus- tralasian/ Pacific Island nations or by filmmakers from across the region.

·      
Differences between indigenous and non-indigenous conceptions of spiri-
tuality in film production and representation

·      
Postcolonial spirituality and religion in film production

·      
Filmic engagements with questions of morality and ethics or issues not normally
considered as being within the purview of ‘religion’ 

·      
The influence of secular epistemologies and practices on the economies
or conventions of filmmaking 

·      
Film, spirituality and tourism 

·      
Post 9/11 conceptions of religious affiliation and difference in
Australasia 

·      
Religious events, their mediation and/or representation in film 

·      
Religion and politics/ the state, including political events and their
influence on filmic representations of religion and spirituality in local,
national or international productions

 

Papers due:
December 16, 2011

Contact: Anthony Lambert, anthony.lambert at mq.edu.au and Holly Randell-Moon, holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au

 

Submission
for both issues and can be made directly to the editors or via the journal
link: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/article-sub/



Dr. Holly Randell-Moon
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
AustraliaEditor
Critical Race and Whiteness Studies
http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournalMediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century
http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12018&title_id=9001&calctitle=1------"It annoys me that the biggest political icon from the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, someone who tried to destroy the working class ... it freaks me out you know." - Noel Gallagher  		 	   		  
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