*apologies for cross-posting*
Transformative Works and Cultures Journal
(http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is currently looking for book
reviewers for its next three issues.
TWC alternates generalist issues and special themed issues. Here below
you can find a description of each issue, and a selection of books we
are targeting for review. Potential reviewers are also welcome to
suggest pertinent volumes of their choice, for discussion with the
editing team.
If you are interested in reviewing a book for TWC, please contact us at
[log in to unmask]
Mafalda Stasi
Review Editor, Transformative Works and Cultures
[log in to unmask]
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/
_______________________________________________
04. Special Issue: *Supernatural* (Spring 2010)
Overall call for contributions:
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/5
Book list for issue 04:
Gaiman, Neil. 2008. The Graveyard Book. HarperCollins.
Flannery, Denis. 2007. On Sibling Love, Queer Attachment and American
Writing. Ashgate.
Goldstein, Diane, Sylvia Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas. 2007.
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore. Utah State
University Press.
Johnston, Peter, Rebecca Dessertine and Diego Olmos. 2008. Supernatural
(Comic book series). DC.
Newitz, Annalee. 2006. Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in
American Pop Culture. Duke UP.
Spooner, Catherine. 2007. Contemporary Gothic. Reaktion Books.
Steinmeyer, Jim. 2008. Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the
Supernatural. Tarcher.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. 2008. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by
American Women. Fordham University Press.
________________________________
05. Generalist Issue (Fall 2010)
Overall call for contributions:
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/8
Book list for issue 05:
Abel, Jessica and Matt Madden. 2008. Drawing Words and Writing Pictures:
Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond. First Second.
Baron, Naomi S. 2008. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World.
Oxford UP.
Berry, David. 2008. Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open
Source. Pluto/U of Michigan Press.
Black, Rebecca W. 2008. Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction (New
Literacies and Digital Epistemologies). Peter Lang.
Boellstorff, Tom. 2008. Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist
Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton UP.
Bowman, Paul. 2008. Deconstructing Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
[may be too generic but I am intrigued by the "Alterdisciplinarity:
Deconstructing Popular Cultural Studies" chapter]
Boyle, James. 2008. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the
Mind. Yale Univ. Press.
Davies, Russell T and Benjamin Cook. 2008. Dr Who: The Writer's Tale.
BBC Books.
Davis, Glyn and Gary Needham, eds. 2008. Queer TV. Routledge.
Enteen, Jillana. 2008. Virtual English. London: Routledge.
Feasey, Rebecca. 2008. Masculinity and Popular Television. Edinburgh UP.
Gaiman, Neil. MIT Interview (w/ Jenkins). DVD.
http://www.newenglandcomics.com/cgi-bin/shop/search.cgi?user_id=19675&database=tick.csv&template=details.htm&0_option=1&0=NGJSDVD01
Gray, Jonathan, Cornel Sandvoss, C. Lee Harrington, eds. 2007. Fandom:
Identities and communities in a mediated world. NY: New York Univ. Press.
Harpold, Terry. 2007. Going Native: Cyberculture and Postcolonialism.
London: Routledge.
Kim, Youna. 2008. Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia. Routledge.
Markham, Annette N., and Nancy K. Baym. 2008. Internet Inquiry:
Conversations About Method. Sage.
Nakamura, Lisa. 2007. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet.
U of Minnesota Press.
O'Riordan, Kate and David J. Phillips. 2007. Queer Online: Media
Technology and Sexuality. Peter Lang Publishing.
Segall, Miriam. 2008. Career Building Through Fan Fiction Writing: New
Work Based on Favorite Fiction. Rosen Publishing Group.
Tapscott, Don. 2008. Grown up digital, How the net generation is
changing your world. McGraw-Hill.
Young, Clive. 2008. Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind the Camera. Continuum.
______________________________________________________________
06. Special Issue: Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction--History Issue (Spring 2011)
Overall call for contributions:
http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/6
Book list for issue 06:
Berman, Garry, et al. 2008. We're Going to See The Beatles!: An Oral
History of Beatlemania as Told by the Fans Who Were There. Santa Monica
Press.
Knight, Ken. 2008. New England Bandwagon Nation: the real story of the
history of NFL football fan support in New England. Word Association.
Lachonis, Jon. et al, eds. 2008. Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a
Fandom Like No Other. Ecw Press.
Miller, Barbara. 2008. Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World.
Prentice Hall.
Quinn, Kevin. 2009.Sports and Their Fans: The History, Economics and
Culture of the Relationship Between Spectator and Sport. McFarland.
|
