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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:48:33 -0600
From: "Andrew C. Rieser" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Journal of Visual Culture
Call for Papers
Journal of Visual Culture
The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of interest,
research, and writing on visual culture within the Humanities
and Social Sciences.
The Journal of Visual Culture is a new international, refereed
journal being launched in April 2002 as a site for astute,
informative, and dynamic thought on the visual.
The journal will publish work from a range of methodological
positions, on various historical moments, and across diverse
geographical locations. It will promote research, scholarship,
and critical engagement with visual cultures.
Interdisciplinary Coverage
The Journal of Visual Culture will be essential reading for
academics, researchers and students engaged with the visual
within the fields and disciplines of:
* film, media, and television studies * art, design, fashion,
and architecture history * visual culture * cultural studies and
critical theory * gender studies and queer studies * ethnic
studies and critical race studies * philosophy and aesthetics
* photography, new media, and electronic imaging * critical
sociology * history * geography/urban studies n comparative
literature and romance languages * the history and philosophy
of science, technology, and medicine
Topics to be covered will include:
* technologies for seeing, machines of the visible,architectures of vision
* gazes, glances, voyeurism, narcissism
* the public sphere, privacy, the visible and everyday life
* appearances, surfaces, textures, touch, transparency
* performance, the erotic, the pornographic
* the eye, ocular regimes, optics, blindness, the obscene
* blackness, whiteness, colour, lightness, darkness
* the ornamental, iconoclasm, idolatry, aura
* spectacle, simulation
* displays, exhibitions, collections, installations
* seeing, scenes, screens
* land/city/media-scapes
* detection, the hidden, invisibility, blindspots, resemblance,
vanishing points, peripheries, misrecognition, curiosity
* cartographies, topographies
* image, imagination, dreaming, fantasy
* censorship, editing
* forgery, the alchemical, anamorphosis
* perception, projection, disclosure, illusion
* monuments, museums, archives
* copy, reproduction, the microscopic, the macroscopic
* aesthetics, mimesis, tropes, figures
* style, technique, gesture
Call for Papers
Articles are now being sought for early issues of the
journal.
Articles should be between 5-7000 words. Reviews (which
must be approved in advance with either the Reviews or
Events Editor) should be between 800-1200 words. Four
copies of the manuscript should be submitted, typed in
double-spacing on one side of A4 paper only and must
include an abstract of 100-150 words on a separate
sheet. Authors will be asked to provide a diskette of the
final version. Submissions will be refereed anonymously by
at least two referees.
The journal uses the Harvard system of referencing with
author's name and date in the text and a full reference
literature in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
Articles for the journal should be addressed to either:
Raiford A. Guins, University of California, San Diego,
Department of Literature, 0410, 9500 Gilman Drive,
La Jolla, California 92093-0410, USA
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or
Joanne Morra, School of Art, Publishing and Music,
Oxford Brookes University, Headington Hill Campus,
Oxford OX3 0BP, UK
Tel : +44 (0)1865 484960 ï Fax: +44 (0)1865 484952
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Reviews Editor Simon Ofield
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Events Editor Rob Stone
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Call for Papers website:
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0376.html
This announcement was submitted via the H-Net Announcements Website.
Find it at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/announce/show.cgi?ID=126843
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