Late Proposals Welcomed, for collection of edited essays on AMERICAN
VISUAL CULTURES.

Colleagues,

In February I posted a CFP, asking for essays detailing the intersection

of U.S. visual cultures and U.S. history/politics, in a book to be
edited by John Beck and myself. The initial CFP is reproduced, for your
information, below this note.

The CFP has generated an excellent response, including proposals from a
number of internationally renowned scholars. We do, however, have a few
areas which have not been extensively covered by the proposals received
thus far. We are particularly short on material covering the following:
the period from the Civil War to 1900; the 1960s; African-American
visual cultures/politics; television; gendered readings. If anyone wants

to contribute late proposals dealing with these areas, we would give
them serious consideration. Late proposals re. any other issues/periods
are also welcomed.

Given the quantity (around 40 so far) and quality of the proposals we
have to date, we are confident that we can now produce an excellent book

along the lines suggested by the initial CFP. The initial deadline for
proposals was given as June 30th 2001, but we will extend that deadline
to July 10th for any proposals dealing with the issues indicated above.
However, if you are interested in submitting, I would ask you to
register that interest with me as soon as possible, and prior to
submitting a formal proposal if necessary.

Again, please refer to the initial CFP, below, for further information.
Or contact me at [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

Thanks for your attention,

Dave Holloway.


Original CFP follows:-

AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURES:  CALL FOR PAPERS

John Beck (University of Newcastle) and David Holloway (University of
Derby) invite proposals for a book of edited essays on American visual
cultures of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The growth in popularity of the study of visual culture is clearly
indicated by recent trends in academic publishing and higher education
curricula. Much of the recently published material has placed stress
upon the processes through which certain kinds of visual culture (for
example film or TV, painting or photography) are consumed. This stress
often downplays the historical conditions in which visual texts are
produced, and the multivalent contextual and intertextual relationships
between visual and other historical texts.

We invite proposals for essays to be included in a multidisciplinary
textbook on the historical dimensions of United States’ visual cultures,

from the Civil War to the presidency of George Bush jr. On completion we

anticipate that the book will offer a broadly chronological account of
significant moments, events and debates within American history, as they

were represented (overtly or ‘unconsciously’) in the visual media of
their times. The book will be organised around two central assumptions:
firstly, that history may be defined as a shifting nexus of social,
political and economic tensions in which different social groupings
compete for power and authority; and secondly that the form and content
of all visual texts are indivisible from the historical periods in which

they get made.

We invite essays that might discuss, indicatively, film, photography,
painting, television or visual news media. We would also be interested
in considering proposals that discuss other visual cultures, such as
poster art, advertising, newspaper cartoons, and so forth. Indicatively,

essays might consider specific visual texts, or groups of texts, within
the broad contexts of: the rise of monopoly capitalism in the second
half of the C19th; the Civil War and Reconstruction; urbanisation and
industrialisation; the opening of the West, the closing of the frontier;

the drift toward nativism 1880s-1920s; the economic crises of the
1870s-1890s; Progressivism; US intervention in World War One; the
suffragette movement; the first Red Scare of 1919-20; prohibition; early

Fordism in the 1920s; the Great Depression; US involvement in World War
Two; the Fordist ‘long boom’ of the postwar era; McCarthyism and the Red

Scare; Cold War foreign policy; the Korean War; the rise of the Sunbelt,

and the New West; the New Left and other dissenting cultures of the
1960s; Civil Rights struggle; Black Power; Second-Wave feminism; the
Vietnam War; oil crisis and economic stagnation in the 1970s; the
emergence of neo-liberal economics, Reaganism and the New Right, the
‘culture wars’; the globalizing of American capital, and the shift from
a regime of ‘Fordist’ political economy to a new regime of
‘post-Fordism’; post-Cold War ‘American’ identities. These suggestions
are intended to be indicative only, and we leave it to contributors to
set the historical frame of reference in which they wish to work.

Proposals of around 500 words may be sent by email to
[log in to unmask], or by regular mail to:

Dr David Holloway,
Department of American Studies,
Humanities Languages and Law,
University of Derby,
Kedleston Road,
Derby DE22 1GB,
England.