[Sfts-students] Science Fiction Film & Television journal call for submissions/reviews

[andré carrington]

*Science Fiction Film and Television* invites article submissions on any
topics related to sf and visual media; we especially invite articles
related to the production economy of the culture industry and to non-US sf,
as well as articles that related to possible upcoming special issues on (1)
indigenous sf filmmaking and (2) the career of Taika Waititi. We also
invite proposals from potential guest editors for special issues; please
write gerry.canavan at marquette.edu for more information on this process.
SFFTV is edited by Gerry Canavan (Marquette University), Dan Hassler-Forest
(Utrecht University), and Ida Yoshinaga (George Institute of Technology).
Preferred length for articles is approximately 7000-9000 words; all topics
related to science fiction film, television, gaming, other visual media
will be considered. Typical response time is within three months. Check the
journal website at Liverpool University Press for full guidelines for
contributors; please direct any individualized queries to
gerry.canavan at marquette.edu.
The journal is also seeking reviewers of recent works of sf and sf-adjacent
critical theory as well as recent SF visual media. We are welcome to
pitches, but we also have the following books available for review:
* Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, MUTOPIA: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASTIC
KNOWLEDGE (Liverpool UP)
* Rebecca Janicker, ed, THE SCIENTIST IN POPULAR CULTURE (Lexington Books)
* Tyler Sage, MR. FREEDOM (Constellations in Science Fiction Film and TV
series)
* George Slusser, SCIENCE FICTION: TOWARD A WORLD LITERATURE (Lexington
Books)
* David Sweeney, THE OA (Constellations in Science Fiction Film and TV
series)
* Sherryl Vint and Jonathan Alexander, PROGRAMMING THE FUTURE:POLITICS,
RESISTANCE, AND UTOPIA IN CONTEMPORARY SPECULATIVE TV (Columbia UP)
Reviews typically run 1000-2000 words, or 2000-4000 words in our "review
essay" format. Samples of both types of review are available upon request.
For our media in review section, we are now primarily interested in:
* reviewers who are calling attention to things that have gone overlooked
in the larger entertainment-media-complex landscape, especially
international film;
* reviewers with a specific aesthetic, political, or philosophical "take"
on a text, as opposed to a more traditional review that recapitulates the
plot at length and advises the potential viewer whether or not they ought
to watch it.
This notion of a specific "take" is especially important for blockbuster
franchise fare, like the MCU or Star Wars movies; in most cases we would
only be interested in a review essay for such a film, discussing it within
some larger critical context.
Due to a recent review backlog we have not been actively soliciting
reviewers; as a result, much recent SF media is still available for
reviewing. If there is a film you are interested in reviewing, please
contact gerry.canavan at marquette.edu and let him know the name of the film
and what you think you'd like to say about it. Deadlines are quite
flexible. We look forward to hearing from you!

-- 
andré m. carrington

Associate Professor of English
University of California, Riverside
--
Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction
<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/speculative-blackness>
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