[Mediaculturehipsters] Fwd: UPDATE: Mediascape (1/15/06; journal issue)

[jennifer buscher]

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> From: Erin Hill <erin.hill at mindspring.com>
> Date: November 11, 2005 6:04:50 PM PST
> To: cfp at english.upenn.edu
> Subject: UPDATE: Mediascape (1/15/06; journal issue)
>
> Below please find our updated CFP. There is a new submission date,  
> some
> changes to the features section call, and a new call for our review
> section.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin Hill
> ---------------------------------------------------
> CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
>
> UCLA’s film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape,  
> is now
> accepting submissions for the features and reviews sections of its
> spring issue. This journal, a place for articles pertaining visual
> culture, is peer-reviewed and published on a bi-annual table. The
> deadline for submissions is January 15, 2006.
>
> Features:
>
> Taking into account the increasingly blurry line between all of the
> different components that make up the modern media landscape, the
> features section has adopted an inter-disciplinary and inter-media
> approach to scholarly discourse on the three main facets of  
> contemporary
> visual culture: film, television and digital media. As such, the  
> section
> seeks contributions from all areas within media studies, from film
> theory to moving image archiving, and welcomes contributions from  
> other
> academic fields, such as history, literature, music, economics,
> political science, etc., as well as from media practitioners  
> outside of
> academia altogether. The guiding principle uniting these contributions
> will be the perspectives, however disparate, that they offer on the
> mediascape that is common to all of us as media scholars,  
> practitioners
> and consumers.
>
> Submissions for the features section need not address the larger  
> issues
> described above, so long as they offer a unique perspective on film,
> television, digital media, or any other aspect of moving image  
> culture,
> preferably encompassing more than one. Though articles should be of a
> high level of scholarly rigor, the journal will not be read  
> exclusively
> by media scholars. Writing should therefore be readable enough to be
> enjoyed by those outside of the field of media studies and indeed
> outside of the academy altogether.
>
> Reviews:
>
> Mainstream film, television and digital media reviewing tends to be
> constrained by an industry model that requires writers to gain  
> access to
> the objects of their review through publicity agents, press kits and
> press screenings, leading to a homogeneity of perspectives, and  
> limiting
> reviews to objects that are newly available for purchase –in effect
> reducing these reviews to simple announcements of the latest releases.
> This model also limits reviews to the film/TV/digital media text,  
> which
> essentially gives industrial and business factors a free pass. For  
> these
> reasons, Mediascape’s reviews section calls for reviews written  
> outside
> of the industry model described above, and examining not only film,
> television and digital media texts, but also the institutions and
> apparatuses that shape the way we as consumers, fans, and academics  
> make
> meaning of them, such as festivals, books, award shows, restorations,
> fan magazines, conferences, DVDs, press kits, movie theaters,
> peer-to-peer technologies, soundtracks, televisions, advertising,
> reviews, websites, retailers, or any combination of the above.
>
> The reviews section also seeks to become a forum for the international
> exchange of ideas and perspectives, in order to break from the  
> local or
> national centrism of conventional review journalism. However, there is
> no pretension of possessing a “global” viewpoint. Instead,  
> contributors
> should bring to the forum their own cultural locatedness in hopes of
> contributing to a larger, international exchange of ideas. In  
> pursuit of
> a more complete comprehension of global film circulation and  
> reception,
> Mediascape’s review section is also interested in publishing foreign
> language reviews in English and vice versa.
>
> Submission guidelines:
>
> Submissions should follow MLA Style guidelines and should employ the
> parenthetical, in-text method of source citation. Digital copies of
> accompanying illustrations should be sent as jpegs or adobe files.
> Permissions are not the journal’s responsibility. Because of the peer
> review and editorial processes of the journal’s different sections, it
> may take as long as eight weeks for decisions on submissions to reach
> the writers.
>
> To submit a feature article, please email a copy of your manuscript in
> Word format to erinhill at ucla.edu. Feature submissions should range  
> from
> between 15 and 25 double-spaced, manuscript pages. Some exceptions  
> will
> be made with regard to length in either direction; however, it is
> preferred that the author stay within the 15-25 page range.
>
> Please direct reviews section questions, proposals, and submissions to
> brianhu at ucla.edu.
> Reviews should be a minimum of 2,500 words, although exceptions may be
> granted. There is no maximum word limit, provided work is readable,
> structured, and visually appealing in the online format.
>
> General email inquiries can also be sent to erinhill at ucla.edu.
>
> http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/
>
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