[csaa-forum] Second CFP: Imaging Religion and Spirituality in Australasian Film

[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 issue:

 

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 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
Australasian/ Pacific Island nations or by filmmakers from across the region

·      
Differences between indigenous and non-indigenous conceptions of
spirituality 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 interna- tional productions

 

‘Imaging religion and spirituality in
Australasian film’ will be edited by Anthony Lambert and Holly Randell-Moon.
Enquiries in the first instance should be made via email to either anthony.lambert at mq.edu.au or holly.randell-moon at mq.edu.au

 

Final submissions to this issue close on Friday December 16, 2011.



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
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