Call For Papers: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) The cinematic release of Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) has already garnered speculation, derision and debate equal to its highly controversial source text, E. L. James’ homonymous trilogy. Its alignment with mass media, a predominantly female audience and mainstream cinema make it a concurrently anticipated and abhorred rich contemporary text. Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media thus invites papers which will interrogate this adaptation from a plethora of new perspectives including industry, text and reception analysis. Focuses may include, but are not limited to: * Adaptation Studies * Audience Studies * Comparative film analyses * Criticism analyses * Genre and Formalism * Fans and Fan-Fiction * Kink, BDSM and Sexual Politics * Publicity, promotion and paratexts * Psychoanalytic textual analysis * Queer Theory * Social Networking and the Blogosphere * Star Studies Authors are expected to familiarise themselves both with the pre-existing literature on Fifty Shades, and with the submission guidelines available at: http://intensitiescultmedia.com/about-intensities/submission-guidelines/ Considering the timeliness of this topic, the deadline for submissions of full 6-8k papers accompanied by 250 word abstracts and 150 word bios is April 30th 2015<https://cas.brunel.ac.uk/owa/14.3.210.2/scripts/premium/UrlBlockedError.aspx> for publication this year. Submissions should be emailed to assistant editor Sarah Taylor-Harman at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Inquiries and expressions of interest are also welcomed. Sarah Taylor-Harman PhD Candidate, Brunel University Screen Media Research Department https://brunel.academia.edu/SarahTaylorHarman/