CALL FOR PAPERS
InterCulture is a peer-reviewed e-journal seeking academic papers
(3,000 to 6,000 words), reviews (1,000 to 3,000 words) and creative
work pertaining to the theme "Perspectives on War: Media and Memory."
War, like the past, "can be seized only as an image that flashes up at
the moment of its recognizability, and is never seen again." Walter
Benjamin's discussion of history (1940) is only one way to articulate
the relationship between individual or collective memories and media
through either the "image" or media institutions. For example, the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial resonates in private and public
recollections of Vietnam. Associated with Maya Lin's vision, however,
is another popular illustration of a man mourning and a soldier's
image reflecting back through the black-polished granite. Sold on
t-shirts and as framed prints, this picture informs the ideological
function a memorial has in the construction of America's national
history. Public art is a media through which memory and war intersect.
InterCulture is seeking papers, creative work, and reviews that
connect media and memory through a
discussion of a war or wars. This issue works alongside InterCulture's
Fall/ Winter issue devoted to "The Front" available at
http://dih.fsu.edu/interculture/.
Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:
---construction of memory through film
---use of Cold war rhetoric in current War on Terror
---documentation of survivor accounts
---discourses on the soldier (hero)
---how social theory 'remembers' or implicates war
---identity (gender, race, class, sexuality) and the memory of war
---capitalism and the discourse of war
---monuments and memorials
---violence and issues concerning human rights
---memory in popular culture (film, television, video games, etc)
---memory as ideology in literature, music, sport
Being an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome work ranging from
philosophical discussions of history or an analysis of The Thin Red
Line to a research project on genocide and the news media. We are also
interested in publishing reviews on academic texts, fiction, film, art
exhibitions, video games, or any other cultural objects pertaining to
the topic at hand. These could range from traditional reviews to more
creative 'think pieces' that study an advertisement, for example. Feel
free to write the editor (kwright_at_fsu.edu) if you want feedback on
any ideas for a review you have in mind.
All citations must use the MLA format. Please include a 100 – 200 word
abstract with your submission that will be included alongside your
paper should it be published. No abstract is required for reviews. For
more information regarding the submission of creative work or other
inquiries, see the "Submission Guidelines" on InterCulture's website
at <http://iph.fsu.edu/interculture/submissions.html>.
Please send submissions via email to:
Katheryn Wright, Managing Editor
Florida State University
kwright_at_fsu.edu
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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