CALL FOR PAPERS
Fantastic Voyages, Monstrous Dreams, Wondrous Visions:
Cinematic Folklore and Fairy Tale Film
Submissions are invited for an edited collection of essays on fairy tale
film. Suitable topics include but are not limited to:
•Intersections between folklore, fantasy, and film theory
•Postmodern and psychoanalytic perspectives on cinematic folklore
•Metamorphosis, enchantment, monstrosity, and abjection in fairy tale film
•Transgender or transbiology in fairy tale film
•The rise in popularity of adult fairy tale films
•The convergence of science fiction and fairy tale fantasy film
•Ethnographic studies of fairy tale film viewers and audiences
•Fairy tale film narratives of Happily-ever-after, the American Dream,
utopia, and other cultural discourses
•Discourses of Otherness, (post)coloniality, and Orientalism in fairy tale
film
•Fairy tale film as cultural pedagogy, encoding issues of socialization,
sexuality, gender, race, and class difference
•Analyses of particular works by fairy tale filmmakers from Georges Méliès
and Walt Disney to Tim Burton and Stephen Spielberg
•Global migration of cinematic folklore, cross-cultural translations and
transformations
•Genre and generational shifts and remixes in fairy tale film from
melodrama and romantic comedy, to science fiction, horror, noir, and action
adventure
•Fairy tale motifs in the visual culture of film shorts, TV advertising and
music video
•Historic and contemporary perspectives on innovative cinematography and
special effects in animated and live-action fairy tale film, from puppetry
to Pixar
•Political economy/capitalist relations of production and direction of
cinematic folklore
•Relationship of "classic" 19thC fairy tale illustration (from Arthur
Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac, et al.) and the Disney
animation image repertoire to the iconography of contemporary cinematic
folklore
Final essays should range in length from 5,000 - 9,000 words. Previously
published work, appropriately revised and/or updated, will be considered.
Send 500-word proposals (or completed essays) and a brief c.v.
electronically as email attachments to Sidney Eve Matrix
(matrixs_at_queensu.ca) and Pauline Greenhill
(p.greenhill_at_uwinnipeg.ca) by 1
January 2008.
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Iain Robert Smith
Doctoral Student
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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