[ecrea] CFP: 'WorkingUSA' special issue on Film

CALL FOR ESSAYS


WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society



Special Issue: ‘Film, Labor and Migration’; publishing: December 2013





Guest editor: Dr Saër Maty Bâ, WorkingUSA editorial board





WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society is a peer-review 
cross-disciplinary social science quarterly journal intended for a broad 
exploration of the economic, political, and social dimensions of work 
and labor throughout the world. The journal publishes articles directed 
to an open and critical analysis of the global and U.S. labor movements, 
organizations, and the working class. The journal editors see a strong 
and robust labor movement as a force that is central to the immediate 
and long term social, economic, and political interests of the working 
class. The journal endeavors to promote thoughtful and penetrating 
analysis of the historical, contemporary, and future prospects of 
workers that advanced beyond the narrow goals of individuals. We see 
workers as a force that labor movements across the world must embrace to 
advance the struggle for social and economic justice. WorkingUSA, an 
independent academic journal, exclusively accepts for review original 
submissions, and does not consider essays previously evaluated or 
currently under review by other publications.





The global histories of ‘film studies’ – understood here as comprising 
screen studies – but also of ‘film’ – which includes new/digital media – 
as a medium display constant engagement with issues of labor, work, 
labor movements, class, as well as with matters of justice (social, 
racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, political and economic). 
Additionally, ‘film’ embodies the unending processes of adjustment at 
play in labor, class and migration matters, in a world of globalized 
capital and culture where, as Hamid Naficy puts it, ‘the integrity, 
security, sovereignty and protection of physical borders have assumed 
heightened attention, budgets and resources [while] border crossings 
have become cathected places of fear and terror’ (Naficy 2007: xv). Last 
but not least, today images cross borders and boundaries (international, 
national, regional) easily and, in the same process, call for a 
continued critical look at how the medium of ‘film’ represents – indeed, 
re-presents – class, labor and migration.





In line with WorkingUSA’s global objectives, seen through the lens/prism 
of the multiple histories, theories, practices of film studies and/or 
film as a medium, this special issue seeks original essays ranging from 
4,000 to 7,000 words (including notes) on any of the following themes or 
topics:





·         Labor/class, migration, and film genre (especially, ‘War 
Film’, Science-Fiction, Documentary, Western, Gangster)



·         Labor/class, migration, and film movements (especially, 
Hispanic cinemas, the African diaspora, European ‘New Waves’, Third Cinema)



·         Labor/class and migration in/and the ‘postcommunist’ film



·         Labor/class and migration in film industries (for example, 
unions and other organizations; the British film industry in the 1930s)



·         Labor/class and migration in Africa and/or its diasporas: 
filmmakers and their work



·         Labor/class and migration in Africa and/or its diasporas: case 
study of African and/or African diasporic cinema



·         Labor/class and migration in film festivals (laboring for film 
festivals/laboring at film festivals)



·         Labor/class, enmity, and the figure of the migrant on screen



·         Labor movements/labor organizations/the working class on screen



·         Gender, labor, class and migration on screen



·         Race/ethnicity, labor, class and migration on screen



·         Socialist/communist iconographies of the 
migrant/worker/migrant worker on screen



·         Trade unionism (left-wing/right-wing) on screen



·         Re-thinking film (e.g., studies/histories/theories/practices) 
through labor/class and migration



·         Philosophers, work/labor, class, and film theories 
(especially, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, and/or Slavoj Žižek)



·         National cinema/international cinema, labor and migration



·         Radical/Marxist/Marxian readings of labor, class and migration 
and/in film histories



·         Reading 21st Century labor, class and migration issues through 
‘film’



·         Internet/digital labor, the moving image, class and migration





In the first instance, please send an abstract of 200 words in length – 
clearly stating the goals, objectives, methods, and arguments of the 
author – and a two-sentence biography indicating name, affiliation, and 
research interests to both the guset editor, Saër Maty Bâ 
((drsaerba1 /at/ gmail.com)), and the resident editor of WorkingUSA, Prof. 
Immanuel Ness ((iness /at/ brooklyn.cuny.edu)).





Abstracts and full essays (of accepted abstracts) will be subject to a 
triple-blind review process. It is strongly recommended that submissions 
are free of jargon or abstract and oblique methodological formulations 
and are accessible to sub-disciplinary fields but directed to a broader 
academic and labor readership.





Please note the following relevant deadlines for submissions:





Abstracts: by November 5th, 2012





(All notifications of acceptance emailed: by November 20th, 2012)





Full essays: by June 30th, 2013





Corrections that may be requested by reviewers/editors: by August 15th, 2013





Any queries regarding the special issue should be addressed to the guest 
editor.



With all best wishes,





Saër Maty Bâ









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Dr Saër Maty Bâ



Laest publications:



BOOK: De-Westernizing Film Studies (Routledge, June 2012) (co-editor, 
contributor).



ARTICLE: 'Jean Rouch as "Emergent Method": Towards New Realms of 
Relevance', Film International 57, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2012, pp. 50-68







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