<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:20px"><p style="line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<i style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;font-style:italic;text-indent:0px!important"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#7030a0" style="line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:20px;font-weight:bold">Studies in Australasian Cinema</b></font></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#7030a0" style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:20px;font-weight:bold"> </b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2a2a2a">is an international refereed scholarly journal devoted to the cinema of, and film scholarship from, the Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific region. The call for papers for the special issue</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333399"><b> &quot;Imaging Religion and Spirituality in Australasian Film&quot;</b></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2a2a2a"> has now been extended to </font><b style="color:rgb(42,42,42)">January 16, 2012.</b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<b style="line-height:20px;font-weight:bold;text-indent:0px!important"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">6.1:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Imaging</span> <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Religion</span> and Spirituality in Australasian Film</span></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Editors: Anthony Lambert and Holly Randell-Moon</span></p><p style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Issues of spirituality and <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span> have long between central to the social, cultural and political rituals of many countries and communities within the Australasian-Pacific Island and Oceanic regions. <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Religion</span> a</span>nd 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> representations of , spirituality and <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span>. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">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.</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Representations on any aspect of <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span> and spirituality from within Australasian/ Pacific Island nations or by filmmakers from across the region</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Differences between indigenous and non-indigenous conceptions of spirituality in film production and representation</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Postcolonial spirituality and <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span> in film production</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Filmic engagements with questions of morality and ethics or issues not normally considered as being within the purview of ‘<span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span>’</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">The influence of secular epistemologies and practices on the economies or conventions of filmmaking</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Film, spirituality and tourism</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Post 9/11 conceptions of religious affiliation and difference in Australasia</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Religious events, their mediation and/or representation in film</span></span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Symbol;color:black"><span style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important">·<span style="line-height:normal;text-indent:0px!important;font:normal normal normal 7pt/normal &#39;Times New Roman&#39;">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Religion</span> and politics/ the state, including political events and their influence on filmic representations of <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span> and spirituality in local, national or interna- tional productions</span></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">‘<span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Imaging</span> <span class="il" style="background-image:initial;color:rgb(34,34,34)">religion</span> a</span>nd 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 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:blue"><a href="mailto:anthony.lambert@mq.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)">anthony.lambert@mq.edu.au</a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">or </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:blue"><a href="mailto:holly.randell-moon@mq.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,104,207);line-height:20px;font-weight:inherit;text-decoration:underline;text-indent:0px!important">holly.randell-moon@mq.edu.au</a></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:blue"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(42,42,42);line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px!important;margin-bottom:0px!important;margin-left:0px!important;text-indent:0px!important;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important">
<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:20px;text-indent:0px!important;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Final submissions to this issue close on<b style="line-height:20px;font-weight:bold;text-indent:0px!important"> January 16, 2012.</b></span></p>
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Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies<br>Faculty of Arts<br>Macquarie University, NSW 2109<br>Australia</pre><pre style="line-height:17px;text-indent:0in!important;white-space:normal"><span style="line-height:17px;font-family:monospace,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif"></span></pre>
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