[csaa-forum] CFP Peter Weir book (Edinburgh University Press)

[Russell Edwards]

As recommended by Andrew Hutcheon, I'm supplying the CFP for *The Films of
Peter Weir *for the CSAA-Forum list. The book is to be published by
Edinburgh University Press in 2025.

Pdf attached, but for ease of access, I have also pasted the contents below
in the body of this email.

If any additional information is required please do not hesitate to contact
me.
thank you,
Russell Edwards

CFP: The Films of Peter Weir
Abstracts due March 31, 2024

*Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir*



Over several decades, Peter Weir has directed critically acclaimed and
popular films that frequently portray protagonists on the threshold of an
unexplored environment that dazzles and confounds. Yet despite his global
profile, Weir’s work remains relatively understudied. Only a handful of
books have exclusively addressed his career *in toto* and only one
scholarly volume has been published since his most recent film was released
over a decade ago. In a career that can be categorized as having two
distinct phases (Australian trailblazer and Hollywood maverick), many of
Weir’s films are distinguished by their financial success. This run of box
office accomplishments was established in Australia with *Picnic at Hanging
Rock* (1975) and was repeated at the international level several times
during Weir’s extended American excursion with films including *Witness*
(1985); *Dead Poets Society* (1989); *The Truman Show* (1999); and *Master
and Commander: The Far Side of the World*(2003). Working across a range of
genres from early engagement with low-budget horror (*Homesdale*, 1971, *The
Cars that Ate Paris*, 1974) and documentary (*Whatever Happened to Green
Valley?*, 1973) to the epic sweep of his prison escape adventure, *The Way
Back* (2010), there is throughout Weir’s diverse oeuvre a tangible sense of
thematic connection and authorial voice across his eclectic choices.

This proposed *ReFocus* edited collection will consider papers on the films
of Peter Weir. Some of the themes that authors can consider are:

·      Weir and literary adaptation

·      Postcolonialism

·      Cross-cultural (mis)communication

·      Weir and the Australian Wave

·      Weir and Hollywood

·      Australian Identity in the international context

·      Australians in Hollywood

·      Auteurism

·      Representation of Women

·      Genre

·      The Hollywood star in Weir’s films

·      Ensemble casts

·      Television work

·      First nations representation

·      *Mise**-en-scène*

·      Ecology and environment

·      Soundscapes

·      Additional approaches are welcome.

If you have any questions regarding the topics, please feel free to discuss
with the editor. The suggested themes are not exhaustive.

*Contact Email: wadayathinkfilm at gmail.com <wadayathinkfilm at gmail.com>:*

*Deadline for abstracts: March 31st 2024*

*Proposals of approximately 200-500 words* are invited for the proposed
project to be submitted to Edinburgh University Press as part of the
*Refocus* Series on International Directors. Series editors are Drs. Robert
Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, and Gary D. Rhodes. The deadline for
ab­stract submission is *March 31st, 2024*. Please send your
proposals, accompanied
by a 100-150 word author “bio”, to Russell Edwards via
*wadayathinkfilm at gmail.com
<wadayathinkfilm at gmail.com>*. Upon approval, accepted contributors are
expected to submit their full chap­ters of approximately 6,000 to 8,000
words for the refereed anthology, referenced in *Chicago* endnote style, by
December 31st, 2024.

Dr Russell Edwards while early in his career as a researcher has extensive
experience as a film critic (including a decade with international trade
publication *Variety*) and is a former President of the Film Critics Circle
of Australia.
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