[ecrea] CFP & new issue of Film History (Nontheatrical Film)

The latest issue of Film History (vol. 25, no. 4)--a special issue on 
Nontheatrical Film--is now available, featuring a variety of new 
articles that may be of interest to many readers:

* A Portal to the Outside World: Motion Pictures in the Penitentiary 
(Alison Griffiths)
* Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal (Marsha 
Gordon)
* Four Cents to Sea: 16mm, the Royal Canadian Naval Film Society, and 
the Mobilization of Entertainment (Peter Lester)
* Grierson, the British Documentary Movement, and Colonial Cinema in 
British Colonial Africa (Rosaleen Smyth)
* United States v. Twentieth Century-Fox, et al. and Hollywood’s Feature 
Films on Early Television (Jennifer Porst)
* Documentary Educational Resources: A Brief Oral History (Scott MacDonald)
* EPHEMERATA: French Cinema Center Catalogue (circa 1938) (Gregory A. 
Waller)


We hope you will enjoy reading this issue, which can be accessed on 
JSTOR or Project MUSE:

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/filmhistory.25.issue-4
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/film_history/toc/fih.25.4.html



CFP: EPHEMERATA and RE-READINGS


This issue also includes the first installment of a semi-regular new 
feature called Ephemerata. Motivated as much by the circulatory role of 
eBay as by the ease of digitizing documents for online posting and the 
research opportunities afforded by searchable archives like the Media 
History Digital Library and the Internet Archive, Ephemerata offers 
scans of photographs, postcards, pamphlets, brochures, and other 
long-forgotten, discarded, or simply overlooked print material. These 
orphaned items are here recirculated with an eye toward expanding the 
scope—perhaps even generating debate—about what counts as primary 
sources and how ephemeral material might be interpreted, contextualized, 
and deployed. The items resurfacing in Ephemerata will be framed by a 
brief scholarly commentary that blends annotation and speculation. Film 
History welcomes your queries about Ephemerata, proposals concerning 
specific items or types of material worth reproducing, and comments on 
the historical and historiographical import of these highlighted orphans.



Our upcoming issue (vol. 26, no. 1) will introduce another new 
semi-regular feature called Re-Readings, which is intended to 
acknowledge, engage, and analyze the history of film history. Each 
contribution to Re-Readings will offer a 5,000-7,500 word discussion of 
a monograph initially published before 1960 that in some fashion takes 
up the history of cinema. Focusing on a book that has come to occupy or 
ought to occupy a privileged place for subsequent film historians, the 
essays in Re-Readings might consider the monograph's conditions of 
production and publishing history or the author's biography and 
professional career, in addition to examining the claims, methods, and 
broader import of the monograph. A substantial number of monographs 
merit this type of reconsideration, particularly once we include books 
not originally published in English, biographies, and first-person 
accounts. We welcome proposals for contributions to Re-Readings as well 
as suggestions for monographs worth another look.



All the best,


David Church

Assistant Editor, Film History

(filmhist /at/ indiana.edu)


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