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Dear MeCCSA colleagues, Please see below a Call for Practice for a special issue of Screenworks, the online journal of screen media practice research. All queries to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Best wishes, Steve Call for Practice – Screenworks special issue Aesthetics/Politics/Activism/Art: What is Radical Film? This special issue of the re-launched Screenworks, the online journal of screen media practice research, invites all practice researchers with an interest in radicalism and the moving image to submit works that explore the multiple interpretations of ‘radicalism’. Derived from radix, the Latin for root, the word ‘radical’ is has long been used to describe the politics and aesthetics of a wide variety of moving image practices, from experimental film and video work to newsreel, documentary and fiction film. Politically, its most enduring context has been that of the left and various strands of socialism, anarchism and environmentalism, but radicalism can refer equally to the politics of the far right or, as has been the case in more recent years, Islamic extremism. Whatever the context, in the mainstream media ‘radicalism’ is almost always used as a pejorative. Yet profound interventions or fundamental departures from unsatisfactory norms can be positive, creating the spaces for disruption and change that can, as John Holloway (2010) puts it, “crack” the status quo, enable new ideas to flourish, and transform the utopian into the pragmatic. This special issue is dedicated to screen-based practice-research work that engages with the theme of radicalism from any of these competing and sometime contradictory meanings, either formally and/or in terms of subject-matter. The deadline for submissions is January 31 for publication in May 2017. Selected work will also be eligible for entry into a special practice-as-research strand at Bristol Radical Film Festival 2017. Submissions must comprise two parts: 1) the work itself, with a link to its Vimeo page provided in the Submission Form; and 2) a completed Submission form. For more information on the submissions process and to access the submission form please visit the Screenworks website at http://screenworks.org.uk/submissions. To contact the Screenworks editorial team with any queries please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. -------------- Dr Steve Presence, Centre for Moving Image Research, University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------