Dear Rene
Thanks for your email. What kind of books are you interested in reviewing?
I do not have a large selection for you to look at - and it shrinks as
we speak - so perhaps some guidance regarding your research
specialisation would be grand.
With best wishes
William
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Reno Lauro <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Dr. Brown,
>
> I'm tremendously interested in reviewing books for you. Please let me know
> if you'd like to know from me that will be helpful to foster a strong review
> relationship.
>
> warm regards,
> Reno Lauro
>
> PS: you can also contact me via my Princeton Seminary email address.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:35 AM, William Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Subscribers
>>
>> As you might well be aware, Film-Philosophy remains open access but is
>> now published under the auspices of Edinburgh University Press.
>>
>> One of the upshots of this new collaboration is that Film-Philosophy
>> will no longer be publishing as many book reviews as we have done up
>> until now (keen readers will have noted that more than 20 appeared in
>> the weeks surrounding Christmas 2015-2016).
>>
>> Instead, we shall only be publishing somewhere between 8 and 10
>> reviews per year. These will all be published in the final issue of
>> the journal for that particular year, thus appearing in the last few
>> pages of each volume of the journal.
>>
>> For 2016, I already have a few reviews in place - but do need to
>> commission a few more.
>>
>> Clearly, reviewing 8-10 books only per annum in what is already a
>> hugely crowded field makes the job of commissioning and editing those
>> reviews all the more tricky. With this in mind, I shall be trying to
>> limit reviews strictly to monographs and edited collections that have
>> a strongly film-philosophical bent.
>>
>> I am happy to take on board ideas for books that merit reviewing, so
>> please do get in touch if you have any. That said, I apologise in
>> advance if your book does not get reviewed (and certainly if it does
>> not get reviewed immediately).
>>
>> More than this, though, I have a handful of appropriate books that I
>> wish to be reviewed in this year's volume of Film-Philosophy, and so I
>> am looking for potential reviewers.
>>
>> Although the reviews will appear at the end of the year, what with
>> editing, possible rewriting, proofing, typesetting and so on, it is
>> now time to commission those reviews.
>>
>> What I am looking for, then, are reviewers who have a specific
>> interest in matters film-philosophical (I shan't give a list of titles
>> here, but will send it to those who express an interest in doing
>> reviews). And I am looking for reviewers who will be able to get a
>> review into me by mid-May at the latest (for turnaround purposes, as
>> mentioned above).
>>
>> Reviews will be limited to 800-1,400 words - owing to the amount of
>> space determined by EUP for reviews.
>>
>> I am in particular happy to favour early career academics and PhD
>> students, for whom publishing a review would be useful in terms of
>> gaining a publication, building up their curriculum vitae and so on.
>>
>> To reiterate what I want:-
>>
>> 1. Reviewers who are happy to review film-philosophy books
>> 2. Reviewers who can turn a review around between now and mid-May
>> 3. Reviewers who are happy to write c1,000 words
>> 4. I shall give preference to PhD students and early career academics
>>
>> If you feel that this is you, therefore, please be in touch - and we
>> can go from there.
>>
>> With best wishes
>>
>> William
>>
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>> Department of Media, Culture and Language
>> University of Roehampton
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>> Co-editor: Deleuze and Film (2012)
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>> Director: En Attendant Godard (2009), Afterimages (2010), Common
>> Ground (2012), China: A User's Manual (Films) (2012), Selfie (2014),
>> Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015), The New Hope
>> (2015), Circle/Line (post-production), The Benefit of Doubt
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Department of Media, Culture and Language
University of Roehampton
London SW15 5SL
T: (020)8 392 3713
M: 07950 978 708
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Blog: http://wjrcbrown.wordpress.com/
Website: http://begstealborrowfilms.wordpress.com/
Author: Supercinema: Film Philosophy for the Digital Age (2013)
Co-author: Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the
New Europe (2010)
Co-editor: Deleuze and Film (2012)
Co-editor: Special Issue of animation: an interdisciplinary journal on
Avatar (2012)
Director: En Attendant Godard (2009), Afterimages (2010), Common
Ground (2012), China: A User's Manual (Films) (2012), Selfie (2014),
Ur: The End of Civilization in 90 Tableaux (2015), The New Hope
(2015), Circle/Line (post-production), The Benefit of Doubt
(post-production)
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