CALL FOR PAPERS
LOCAL PRODUCTION STUDIES
Vicki Mayer, John Caldwell, Miranda Banks, Eds.
Given the shared interest among cultural studies and political economy
scholars in production, I am working with 2 co-editors to bring together a
collection of new approaches to film/TV/visual media production. We
stress the local as a way to highlight the unique challenges involved in
developing grounded theories and ethnographically-informed methods. The
collection will both lay out the global and interdisciplinary resources
for studying production in the past, and add a fresh twist with new
empirical research, whether the piece focuses on a specific production
locale, a producer or production community, or a case study that
illustrates problems of scale in doing production research.
We welcome more submissions to what I think will be a very original,
interdisciplinary collection. Current contributors include Sherry Ortner,
Laura Grindstaff, Denise Mann, and others. We are particularly interested
in receiving more submissions that deal with international
resources/canons for media production studies, studies outside of
Hollywood, and studies that might address more than one medium/industry.
Please contact me at the email address below with a note of interest or
questions if you are considering contributing. Drafts should be 5000 words
each (abt. 20 pp.) and will be due mid-January 2008, in order for us to be
on schedule to send to the publisher.
Contact:
Vicki Mayer
Associate Professor of Communication
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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Iain Robert Smith
Doctoral Student
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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