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

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)>