[ecrea] Call for Papers: Special issue of Journal of Popular Film & Television

This special issue of the Journal of Popular Film & Television is
currently seeking submissions and tentative abstracts dealing with the
digital aesthetics of violence.


This special issue of the /Journal of Popular Film and Television/ is
designed to focus on the implications of the relationship between
digital technologies and the aesthetic of violence. Contributors may
explore (but are not limited to) questions such as:

   * In what ways has the digital aesthetic changed the visual expression
     of violence in specific traditional media genres—action-adventure,
     science fiction, horror, crime dramas and police procedurals, etc.?
   * How has the increased accessibility and affordability of digital
     technologies impacted production, reproduction, circulation,
     consumption of, and discourses around violent imagery?
   * What can we learn about the cultural and historical impacts of the
     real-world violence encountered by citizen reporters transmitting
     digital video—live and viral—of pro-democracy protests worldwide?
   * How has the audience experience and expectations of cinematic and
     televisual verisimilitude been transformed by spectacular displays
     of bodies, vehicles, and skyscrapers programmed into hyperreal
     collision?
   * What impact has the digitized visualization of violence onscreen had
     on raced, classed, and gendered representations and/or real-world
     identity formations?

We encourage a variety of academic, historical, critical, analytical,
and theoretical approaches, as well as submissions from authors in the
popular press. Tentative abstracts are encouraged at the initial stage.
Full manuscripts deadline October 15, 2015. Stuart Bender, Department of
Film and Television, Curtin University, email
(Stuart.Bender /at/ curtin.edu.au) <mailto:(Stuart.Bender /at/ curtin.edu.au)> OR
Lorrie Palmer, Department of Communication and Theatre, DePauw
University, email (lorriepalmer /at/ depauw.edu) <mailto:(lorriepalmer /at/ depauw.edu)>


Full Call For Papers available at:
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=vjpf20&page=paper#.VW-81nZQMUw 







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