<div dir="ltr">As recommended by Andrew Hutcheon, I'm supplying the CFP for <i>The Films of Peter Weir </i>for the CSAA-Forum list. The book is to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2025.<div><br></div><div>Pdf attached, but for ease of access, I have also pasted the contents below in the body of this email.</div><div><br></div><div>If any additional information is required please do not hesitate to contact me.</div><div>thank you,</div><div>Russell Edwards</div><div><br></div><div><div>CFP: The Films of Peter Weir </div><div>Abstracts due March 31, 2024</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">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.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Yet despite his global profile, Weir’s work remains relatively understudied. Only a handful of books have exclusively addressed his career<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>in toto</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>and only one scholarly volume has been published since his most recent film was released over a decade ago.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Picnic at Hanging Rock</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1975) and was repeated at the international level several times during Weir’s extended American excursion with films including<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Witness</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1985);<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Dead Poets Society</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1989);<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Truman Show</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(1999); and<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World</i>(2003). Working across a range of genres from early engagement with low-budget horror (<i>Homesdale</i>, 1971,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Cars that Ate Paris</i>, 1974) and documentary (<i>Whatever Happened to Green Valley?</i>, 1973) to the epic sweep of his prison escape adventure,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Way Back</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>(2010), there is throughout Weir’s diverse oeuvre a tangible sense of thematic connection and authorial voice across his eclectic choices. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">This proposed<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ReFocus</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>edited collection will consider papers on the films of Peter Weir. Some of the themes that authors can consider are:</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Weir and literary adaptation</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-he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ang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Television work</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">First nations representation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Mise</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(30,30,30)">-en-scène</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black">Ecology and environment</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(30,30,30)">Soundscapes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">Additional approaches are welcome.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">If you have any questions regarding the topics, please feel free to discuss with the editor. The suggested themes are not exhaustive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Contact Email: <a href="mailto:wadayathinkfilm@gmail.com">wadayathinkfilm@gmail.com</a>:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Deadline for abstracts: March 31st 2024</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.25in 0in;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">Proposals of approximately 200-500 words</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">are invited for the proposed project to be submitted to Edinburgh University Press as part of the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Refocus</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>Series on International Directors. Series editors are Drs. Robert Singer, Stefanie Van de Peer, and Gary D. Rhodes. The deadline for ab­stract submission is <b>March 31st, 2024</b>. Please send your proposals,<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>accompanied by a 100-150 word<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>author “bio”, to Russell Edwards via<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"><a href="mailto:wadayathinkfilm@gmail.com">wadayathinkfilm@gmail.com</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">. Upon approval, accepted contributors are expected to submit their full chap­ters<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">of approximately 6<a name="_GoBack"></a>,000 to 8,000 words<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">for<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">the refereed anthology, referenced in<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Chicago</i><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>endnote style,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>by December 31st, 2024.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0.25in 0in;line-height:15.693333625793457px;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.97333335876465px">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 <i>Variety</i>) and is a former President of the Film Critics Circle of Australia.</span></p></div></div></div>