[csaa-forum] Call for Papers: The Lampshade in film

[Sean Redmond]

Call for Papers: The Lampshade in film
One of the central signifying objects found in a film's mise-en-scene is the lampshade. Never just a source of light, shadow, and shade, the lampshade is an active 'agent' in the way stories unfold, characters interact, and how mood and emotion flood or leave the scene. Through their colour, design, and spatial positioning, the lampshade foreshadows narrative action, brings tension and release to a scene, and helps place or situate the film into its genre. Social class and taste distinctions; a film's historical period; and the representation of gender, race and ethnicity, and sexuality can all be signified in part through the lampshade's aesthetics and its iconography; to the way it is touched, knocked over, turned on/off, flickers, illuminates, desaturates, and hums.
In this call for papers I am looking for abstracts that read the lampshade in film from any number of perspectives including close textual analysis of one film or many; specific narrative or generic readings (such as the lampshade in science fiction film, or the melodrama); historical and contextual analysis that explores the lampshade as anchoring period, style, or culture; ideological and representational analysis that reads the lampshade as a 'strategy' to Other or define various identity positions; and from design and production-led considerations. Films can be from any period and from any national or transnational cinema.
The intention is to develop a special issue proposal for a film or screen or cultural studies journal with the aim of having the work completed/submitted by the end of 2026.
Abstracts: should be 350 words in length and include a brief bio.
Deadline: Monday October 6th, 2025.
Emailed to: sean.redmond at rmit.edu.au<mailto:sean.redmond at rmit.edu.au>
With best wishes,
Sean
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