Call for Papers
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
Editors: Ravi S Vasudevan, Rosie Thomas, Neepa Majumdar, Moinak Biswas
We invite contributions to BioScope: South Asian
Screen Studies, a blind peer-reviewed journal
published by Sage biannually since January 2010:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201915
This initiative grew out of the significant
emergence of research, teaching and publication
on Indian/South Asian film and media over the
past decade and a half. The launch editors see
the journal contributing to this emerging
community of scholarship, primarily centred in
the areas of film and media studies, but
developing in conversation with a wider orbit of
image and sound practices. We invite research
into a wide historical and contemporary canvas,
from pre-cinematic forms of assembly through to
contemporary computer practices, game cultures,
ambient television, surveillance imaging, and
the emerging field of screen-based art
installation. The general interest of the
journal extends to the rich intersection of
South Asian screen practices with related forms,
for example, musical recording and performance,
popular print culture and stage set design,
architectural space, fashion, and the history of publicity.
Apart from research papers, illustrated articles
and notes are invited for a special Archives
section in each issue. This could include
documentation on institutional history,
(government and industry reports), forms of
regulation, legal contexts, popular print
culture, translation of critical and popular
writings on screen cultures, ethnographic
diaries, photographic collections and interviews.
Another special section of the journal is the
Roundtable, where we carry invited contributions
that respond to the diversity and
distinctiveness of media experience in this part
of the world, how it connects with other places,
and how it might refashion our understanding of
media practice and research at large. By the end
of the forthcoming BioScope 2.1 (January, 2011),
the section would accumulate material rich and
diverse enough to call for a general discussion.
We would like to invite responses to the
Roundtable from readers for future issues.
Contents (published)
Vol. 1, No. 1, January, 2010:
Editorial: Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies
Roundtable
Ravi Vasudevan, Rosie Thomas, Neepa Majumdar,
Moinak Biswas, â??A Vision for Screen Studies in South Asiaâ??,
Iftikhar Dadi, â??Bioscopic and Screen Studies
of Pakistan, and of Contemporary Artâ??
Shohini Ghosh, â??The Wonderful World of Queer Cinephiliaâ??
Shanti Kumar, â??Globalization, Media
Privatization and the Redifinition of the â??Publicâ?? in Indian Televisionâ??
Articles
Sudhir Mahadevan, â??Traveling Showmen,
Makeshift Cinemas: The Bioscopewallah and Early Cinema History in indiaâ??
Lotte Hoek, â??Unstable Celluloid: Film
Projection and the Cinema Audience in Bangladeshâ??
Ahmet Gurata, â??â??The Road to Vagrancyâ??:
Translation and Reception of Indian Cinema in Turkeyâ??
Jyotnidra Jain, â??Place, Space, and
Representation:Transporting Sacred Geographiesâ??
Vol. 1, No.2, July, 2010:
Editorial
Roundtable
Prophecies
Nitin Govil, â??Size Mattersâ??
Christopher Pinney, â??â??â??It is a different
nature which speaks to the cameraâ??:
Observations on Screen Culture, Prophecy, and Politicsâ??
Ashish Rajadhyaksha, â??A Vision for Screen Studiesâ??
Articles
Claire M. Wilkinson-Weber, â??A Need for
Redress: Costume in Some Recent Hindi Film Remakesâ??
Stephen Putnam Hughes, â??When Film Came to Madrasâ??
S.V. Srinivas, â??Making of a Peasant Industry:
Telugu Cinema in the 1930sâ??1950sâ??
Archives
Aswin Punathambekar, `Ameen Sayani and Radio
Ceylon: Notes towards a History of Broadcasting and Bombay Cinemaâ??
Debashree Mukherjee, `A Material World: notes on
an Interview with Ram Tipnisâ??
Anuja Ghosalkar, `Ram Tipnis a.k.a Papa Ajoobaâ??
Forthcoming
Vol 2, No.1, January, 2011:
Editorial
Roundtable
Laleen Jayamanne, â??On Teaching Cinema Studies in Australiaâ??
Arvind Rajagopal, â??Notes on Postcolonial Visual Cultureâ??
Articles
Lawrence Liang, â??Mediaâ??s Law: From Representation to Affectâ??
Kaushik Bhaumik, â??Cinematograph to Cinema: Bombay 1896-1928â??
M. Madhava Prasad, â??Genre Mixing as Creative Fabricationâ??
Archives
Joppan George, â??The Many Passages of Sound: Indian Talkies in the 1930sâ??
Vol 3, No.1, January 2012
Special Issue on â??Documentary Practice and
Theory in South Asiaâ?? Guest Editors: Bhaskar Sarkar and Nicole Wolf
Submission Guidelines
·Research articles (8000-10000 words)
·Shorter articles engaging new debates
(Including responses to the Roundtable; circa 4000 words)
·Archival and field-note articles (3000-4000 words)
·Review essays evaluating publications,
cultural events, non-fiction, short and
experimental films, screen-based installations,
exhibitions, conferences and festivals.
Contributors are advised to contact the editors
with proposals for essays in advance of
writing/submission in order to avoid duplication.
All submissions should use the APA citation
style. Images accompanying articles could be
stills, scanned images or DVD frame grabs, but they must be of high resolution
Papers and proposals should be sent by email to
The Editors, BioScope, at (bioscope2009 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(bioscope2009 /at/ gmail.com)>
