CALL FOR PAPERS
From Jeff Jaeckle (Michigan State University)
I am extending the deadline for my edited collection on film dialogue
and genre to January 1, 2008. I encourage you to submit proposals for
any of the book's four sections:
1. Dialogue and Genre – Essays will extend Sarah Kozloff's
foundational scholarship in
Overhearing Film Dialogue (UC Press 2000) through examinations of
dialogue patterns in genres not addressed in her study, especially:
film noir, horror, romantic comedy, science fiction, fantasy,
action/adventure, epics, war, sports films, and musicals.
2. Multi-genre Dialogue / Dialogue Without Genre – Essays will address
dialogue patterns that span several genres; alternatively, essays will
argue for instances of film dialogue that defy established definitions
of genre and/or constitute their own genre.
3. Dialogue, Genre, and Representation – Essays will theorize and
provide historical overviews of the intersections of genre and
representation in the context of film dialogue. Essays might
concentrate on groups defined in terms of race, ethnicity,
nationality, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, and
other identity markers not listed above.
4. Teaching Genre Through Dialogue / Teaching Dialogue Through Genre –
Essays will offer
innovative pedagogical models that facilitate the study of film
dialogue and genre in the
classroom.
Some of the current contributors to the collection are:
Emily Bauman (teen movies)
Todd Berliner (Hollywood dialogue conventions and the films of John Cassavetes)
Hye Seung Chung (Asian dialogue / "yellow accents" in Hollywood film)
Jeremy Strong (team films)
Paul Wells (animated films)
I am especially interested in receiving proposals that address the
topics of romantic comedy,
horror, war, science fiction, and hybrid genres. I am also interested
in proposals that treat the
intersections of dialogue and gender, dialogue and race/ethnicity, and
dialogue and sexuality.
Please send a 250-word abstract, c.v., and 100-word bio to Jeff
Jaeckle (Michigan State
University): jaeckle_at_msu.edu by January 1, 2008.
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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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