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[ecrea] CFP (extra chapters) Not Another Teen Movie: Historical Essays on American Cinema and Youth

Sat Jun 16 07:09:19 GMT 2012


I am looking for *two or three* chapters to complete a forthcoming volume I am editing under the provisional title of /Not Another Teen Movie: Historical Essays on American Cinema and Youth/. Chapters should be around 5,500–6,000 words in length and will be required by the end of the year. The collection, accepted for publication by an academic publisher, already boasts a line-up of fifteen scholars from around the world, many of whom are leading figures in the field. Please read the synopsis and overview of contents printed below so as to determine whether you might be able to contribute to the collection.

*_Synopsis_*

By heralding onscreen depictions of young Americans as symptoms of the socio-psychological zeitgeist, scholars have largely cast the multifaceted intersections of American cinema and youth as celluloid “signs of the times”. In response, /Not Another Teen Movie /deepens understandings of this key media-audience relationship, employing historiographical approaches to shed much-needed new light on industry perceptions of American youth audiences, on the poetics of American youth film, and on American youth cinema’s reception.

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*_Overview of Contents_*

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/Not Another Teen Movie: Historical Essays on American Cinema and Youth /is organized into three sections. The first section focuses on industrial/institutional conceptions of the youth demographic and youthful psychographic as a changing target market. The second section offers case-studies on the historical poetics of American youth cinema – i.e. examinations of those forces exerting a direct and historically-specific influence on American Youth cinema’s content and themes. The third section focuses on the popular and critical reception of American youth cinema both in the US and abroad.

The required chapters should focus on the following areas:

1. *American Youth Cinema Overseas*

This chapter should either break new ground with respect to, or revise, current understandings of the international dimensions of American youth cinema – chapters focusing on any historical juncture will be considered. With the synopsis cited above very much in mind, the chapter should also fit neatly into the existing structure of the collection. It should do so by focusing on one of the following areas: a) the ways in which youth(ful) audiences overseas have, either at a particular historical juncture or at different times, been perceived as a market or as a cluster of markets by American industry-insiders; b) the ways in which content has been tailored so as to make American films marketable and attractive to overseas audiences; or c) the ways in which American cinema has been received overseas (although *NOT* in Europe – an area already represented in the collection) by audiences or by elites of one sort or another, be they critical elites, political elites, media elites, or film industry elites.

*2. * *Millennial Youth Cinema*

This chapter should either break new ground with respect to, or revise, current understandings of American youth-centered and/or youth-oriented cinema in the 2000s. Again, please bear in mind the nature of the collection when submitting proposals for chapters that will complement the existing structure of the collection. Accordingly, chapters should focus on one of the following areas: Industry conceptions of youth markets in the 2000s (may relate to Hollywood, independent sectors, underground film, even Hardcore); b) the poetics of youth-centered or youth-oriented cinema in the 2000s.

Many thanks and I look forward to reading your proposals,

Richard Nowell,

Charles University in Prague

<(richard_nowell /at/ HOTMAIL.COM)>


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