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Please, Dave. And let me have the link so I can join too. Mikel On 13 October 2010 10:34, David Green <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Mikel, > > Would you like me to post this on the new academic myth list ... cannot > remember if you are on there ... but you should be x > > > Dr Dave Green > > Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, > UK > > Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM): > > *http://www.sasm.co.uk* <http://www.sasm.co.uk/> > > I shall be telling this with a sigh > > Somewhere ages and ages hence: > > Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - > > I took the one less traveled by, > > And that has made all the difference. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Society for The Academic Study of Magic [mailto: > [log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Mikel Koven > *Sent:* 13 October 2010 08:44 > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Fwd: CFP: Global Mythologies and World > Cinemas (edited collection) > > Apologies for cross posting ... > > * > * > > *Global Mythology and World Cinema* > > A proposed edited collection by Mikel J. Koven (University of Worcester) > > [log in to unmask] > > > > *Global Mythology and World Cinema* will be a collection of essays which > discuss how a variety of world cinemas use their own indigenous cultural > mythologies. The *function* of these myths and their filmic counterparts > will vary from culture-to-culture and from film-to-film. The collection will > argue against the extant paradigm of “mythic cinema”, wherein the term > “myth,” co-opted by Jungians and Campbellians, refers to any vague perceived > universal archetype. This collection will be about cultural specificity, > not universal generalizations, regarding the sacred and how that sacred is > manifested in world cinema. > > > > In terms of a definition of “myth”, *Global Mythology and World Cinema*begins with William Bascom’s 1965 definition (in “The Forms of Folklore: > Prose Narratives” in *Journal of American Folklore* 78: 3-20) and builds > from there. Bascom defined myths as “prose narratives which, in the society > in which they are told, are considered to be truthful accounts of what > happened in the remote past”. Bascom continues, > > They are accepted on faith; they are taught to be believed; and they can > be cited as authority in answer to ignorance, doubt, or disbelief. Myths are > the embodiment of dogma; they are usually sacred; and they are often > associated with theology and ritual. Their main characters are not usually > human beings, but they often have human attributes; they are animals, > deities, or culture heroes, whose actions are set in an earlier world, when > the earth was different from what it is today, or in another world such as > the sky or underworld. (4) > > While *Global Mythology and World Cinema* will not be limited to Bascom’s > definition, we use it here to make that distinction between the current > project and how other scholars have used the word “myth”, often in the same > generalized and universalized way that Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell have. > This current project seeks to rescue the genre from its use to refer to > (imagined) archetypes, and welcomes opportunities to bridge the > anthropological and folkloric definitions with more cultural studies > approaches (i.e. Levi-Strauss and Barthes). > > > > We seek in-depth papers (approximately between 8000-10, 000 words) > exploring the indigenous mythic visions from the following cultural groups’ > cinemas: > > · Japanese cinema > > · Chinese cinema > > · Korean cinema > > · Polynesian and South East Asian cinemas > > · Oceanic cinemas (i.e. Maori and Australian Aborigine) > > · Indian cinemas > > · African cinemas (from many regions and groups) > > · Middle-Eastern and Arab cinemas > > · and the cinemas and mythologies of Native Ameicans > > Other topics may also be suggested; the above list is intended as > illustrative, not definitive. > > > > While an academic publisher has been approached, and interest in the > collection has been expressed, we are not yet at the stage to request > abstracts: We are currently looking for statements of “interest”. > > > > If you have an idea which you would like to be considered for inclusion in > this book, please email Mikel J. Koven ([log in to unmask]) with a brief > (informal) description of what you would like to write on by 31 October > 2010. The deadline for formal abstracts (200-words) will be a few months > later, and final papers would not need to be submitted until January 2012. > > -- > Mikel J. Koven > Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > - Juvenal (Satires VI) > > > -- > Mikel J. Koven > Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? > - Juvenal (Satires VI) > -- Mikel J. Koven Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Juvenal (Satires VI)