[ecrea] 'Women and Science Fiction Media' special issue of SFFTV

/Science Fiction Film and Television/ is seeking articles for a special 
issue on Women & Science Fiction Media, intended to mark the 200^th year 
anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s /Frankenstein/.

Although sf was once stereotyped as a male genre, more recently women’s 
contributions as authors, fans, editors, and more have become more 
widely acknowledged. Central to this new understanding of women’s 
contributions to sf has been the realization that women have always been 
a part of the genre, resisting another stereotype that links women’s 
emergence in the field to the feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s. 
In recognition of the bicentenary of the publication of /Frankenstein/ 
(1818) by Mary Shelley, arguably the first sf novel, we seek essays that 
recognize, interrogate, respond to and celebrate women’s contributions 
to media sf. We are interested in reviewing any work that explores this 
topic, but we are particularly interested in contributions on the 
following topics:

·Female directors of sf film and television

·Female sf showrunners

·Female scriptwriters in sf

·Gender and Mary Shelley’s legacy in sf’s imagination of created beings

·/Frankenstein/ remakes, adaptations, reboots and reinventions

·Gender and casting, and character arc in media sf

·Gender in sf fandom and criticism

Articles should be 7000 to 9000 words in length, including footnotes and 
bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should 
be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv

Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould 
((mark.bould /at/ gmail.com)) <mailto:(mark.bould /at/ gmail.com))>,  Gerry Canavan 
((gerrycanavan /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(gerrycanavan /at/ gmail.com)>) and Sherryl 
Vint  ((sherryl.vint /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(sherryl.vint /at/ gmail.com)>).

The deadline for submissions for this special issue is March 15, 2017.


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