publishing opportunity

[Catherine Russell]

If anyone is looking for a publisher for work on Japanese cinema this looks
like a promising series:

Cultural Histories of Cinema 

A new book series from BFI Publishing.

Series Editors: Lee Grieveson, University College London, and Haidee Wasson,
Concordia University

This new series of books will address the fundamental relations between
cinema and culture as it became a powerful force in 20th Century life.
Authors will explore the network of institutions, representations, and
practices that shape cinema, focussing on cultural and political dynamics.
Together, the books in the series will show the ways in which cinema has
interacted with a range of institutions, social movements, and everyday
practices, and will investigate the relations of power that have informed
the production, distribution, exhibition, and discursive and material
manifestations of moving images throughout the 20th and into the 21st
Centuries. 

"Cultural histories of cinema" will have a transnational emphasis, entailing
comparative as well as nationally focused work.  Films shown in theatres,
everyday non-theatrical venues like schools and factories, and the more
recent ubiquity of moving images on computer screens and mobile devices will
be addressed. The series will feature work that is genuinely
cross-disciplinary, drawing on scholarship from, for example, media and
cultural studies, history, geography, urban and area studies, architectural
and art history. "Cultural histories of cinema" addresses neglected areas of
cinema history, explores new materials, and proposes new methodologies for
thinking about the social and cultural dynamics of the moving image. 

 Topics to be addressed in the series might include:

 non-theatrical and didactic forms of cinema culture (including educational
cinema, industrial film, amateur film, colonial film, documentary,
propaganda) 

*	the regulation of cinema; intellectual property and copyright
*	cultural policy studies
*	cinema technologies and networks 
*	the interplay of local and global film cultures
*	the State and cinema, film and politics, the politics of stardom

 We welcome all proposals that connect to the goals of the series. Initial
enquiries, and proposals, should be sent to Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson,
at l.grieveson at ucl.ac.uk, and haidee.wasson at concordia.ca 

 

 

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Catherine Russell

Professor, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema

Editor, Canadian Journal of Film Studies

Concordia University, Montreal

http://cinema.concordia.ca/index.php/russell/

 

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