[ecrea] CFP: The Velvet Light Trap Issue 83 - Politics of Space and Place

*/The Velvet Light Trap /Issue 83 - Politics of Space and Place*

At the outset of /Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience/, Yi-Fu 
Tuan observes, "Space and place are basic components of the lived world; 
we take them for granted. When we think about them, however, they may 
assume unexpected meanings and raise questions we have not thought to 
ask." Power relations are often negotiated through space and embedded in 
place, and these dynamics resonate through and within media. As such, 
media studies stands to offer an important contribution to the critical 
study of space and place, just as this important area of study may help 
us to reorient and reimagine foundational premises and concerns within 
our field.

Studies of space and place, both real and represented, have developed 
across multiple areas of inquiry within media studies, from theory to 
history to criticism and analysis. The turn toward transnationalism 
within the examination of national cinemas has reorganized ongoing 
investments in understandings of nation, borders, and cultural 
identities. Scholarship at the intersection of urban studies and media 
studies has analyzed media texts alongside the history of architecture 
and of urban development. Following foundational work on movie theaters 
and living rooms, recent work in media studies has considered the video 
store, the arcade, and airplanes as spaces of media consumption. 
Scholars have shown how public policy not only shapes access to media 
but its very content -- fundamental concerns for conceptions of local, 
regional, and national media as well as the identities of its producers 
and consumers. This interdisciplinary and innovative scholarship 
inspires the next issue of /The Velvet Light Trap/, which seeks articles 
that offer generative case studies in media history, theory, or analysis 
while also advancing the various avenues of spatial inquiry in media 
studies.

We seek original scholarship of 6,000-7,500 words that engages with the 
politics of space and place, either real or represented. What areas have 
gone understudied in the current work in the field? What value may be 
found in studying differences in the rural, the urban, the local, the 
regional, the national -- and all other designations of place -- within 
media narratives, production, distribution, and consumption? How might 
studies of space decenter or revise established notions of authorship, 
genre, textuality, and industry?

Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to:

·       Mobility, migration, and borders

·       Spaces and places of exhibition

·       Architecture, cultural geography, or public policy in media studies

·       Performance and space

·       (Re)constructing place in film and television

·       Space and/in genre

·       Locative media and the technologies of space/place

·       Local and/or regional media

·       Identity, belonging, and place

·       Questions of accessing media(ted) spaces

·       Place and affect, memory, and nostalgia

·       Spaces of media(ted) protests

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*Submission Guidelines*

Submissions should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words, formatted in 
Chicago Style. Please submit an electronic copy of the paper, along with 
a separate one-page abstract, both saved as a Microsoft Word file. 
Remove any identifying information so that the submission is suitable 
for anonymous review. Quotations not in English should be accompanied by 
translations. Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to 
(vltcfp /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(vltcfp /at/ gmail.com)> by January 15, 2018.

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*About the Journal*

/TVLT/ is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film, television, and 
new media. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and 
historiographical approaches from the humanities and social sciences and 
welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of 
evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. While 
/TVLT/ maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American 
film, it also expands its scope to television and other media, to 
adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media. The journal 
encourages both approaches and objects of study that have been neglected 
or excluded in past scholarship.

Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the 
University of Texas at Austin coordinate issues in alternation, and each 
issue is devoted to a particular theme. /TVLT/'s Editorial Advisory 
Board includes such notable scholars as Charles Acland, Richard Allen, 
Hector Amaya, Ben Aslinger, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Mark Betz, Michael 
Curtin, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Dombrowski, Bambi Haggins, Daniel Herbert, 
Scott Higgins, Mary Celeste Kearney, Lucas Hilderbrand, Roberta Pearson, 
Avi Santo, Jacob Smith, Jonathan Sterne. /TVLT/'s graduate student 
editors are assisted by their local faculty advisors: Mary Beltrán, Ben 
Brewster, Jonathan Gray, Lea Jacobs, Derek Johnson, Vance Kepley, Shanti 
Kumar, Charles Ramí­rez Berg, Thomas Schatz, and Janet Staiger.
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