[ecrea] CFP: PRIDE Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation

CFP: PRIDE Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation / Abstract 
Deadline: 31 May, 2017

Following the success of the symposium PRIDE and its Precursors: 
Political Mimesis, Nostalgic Dissidence and Popular Film 
<https://medianostalgia.org/2015/11/26/4-5-december-pride-and-its-precursors-political-mimesis-nostalgic-dissidence-and-popular-film/>, 
held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image in December 2015, we 
invite submissions for an /Open Library of Humanities/ journal 
<https://olh.openlibhums.org/> special collection on /Pride/, the LGBTQ 
and coalfield cinema that preceded, influenced and coincided with it, 
and the diverse forms of activism inspired by the film. This call is 
posted online here: 
https://about.openlibhums.org/2017/03/27/cfp-pride-revisited-cinema-activism-and-re-activation-abstract-deadline-31-may-2017/ 
<https://about.openlibhums.org/2017/03/27/cfp-pride-revisited-cinema-activism-and-re-activation-abstract-deadline-31-may-2017/>

/Pride/ (dir. Matthew Warchus) was the most prominent of a number of 
films released in 2014 to coincide with, or commemorate, the 30th 
anniversary of the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike. Based on a real-life 
support group for South Wales miners forged by London-based lesbian and 
gay activists (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, or LGSM 
<http://lgsm.org/>), /Pride/ helped to inspire new solidarity activism 
(including the reformation of LGSM) and stimulated widespread 
discussion. This special collection will explore the impact, success and 
popular film aesthetics of /Pride/ as a political drama-comedy, as well 
as its connections to earlier LGBTQ and miners’ activist and community 
films and videos (including /Framed Youth: Revenge of the Teenage 
Perverts/, 1983/1987, /All Out: Dancing in Dulais/, 1984/1986, and /The 
Miners’ Campaign Tapes/, 1984/1985), and other more recent audio-visual 
commemorations of the Miners’ Strike and 1980s queer activism (including 
/Still the Enemy Within/, 2014, and /Re/framed Youth: From Perverts to 
Pioneers/, 2013). We would like to address questions of historical 
re-enactment, or re-activation, exploring how this mainstream British 
feature film was able to draw on the forms and energies of earlier 
representations and figurations of real people and events.

In the first instance, we are soliciting short written 
abstracts/proposals for full length written articles (7,000-8,000 
words); these will be subject to double-blind peer-review. But we would 
also welcome proposals for audiovisual essays, or for shorter written 
works (of up to 1,000 words). The shorter pieces of writing might offer 
space for reflection on “the year of /Pride/,” and the kinds of activist 
and media forms and discourses engendered by the film’s making or 
release, or more broadly by the anniversary of the Miners’ strike.

Submissions are welcome from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and 
topics may include, but are not limited to:

  * /Pride/ and questions of cinematic nostalgia
  * /Pride/ as historiography
  * /Pride/ as Melodrama
  * /Pride/ as Comedy
  * /Pride/ as a “feel-good movie”
  * Individual and collective protagonists in the cinema and beyond
  * Solidarity Cinema
  * /Pride/ and Cinematic Intertextuality
  * /Pride/ and Intersectionality
  * Music and dance in “political film”
  * /Pride/ and its representations of place and translocal connections
  * /Pride/ and the miners’ strike film
  * Popular Film as/in activism
  * LGSM and the year of /Pride/
  * /Pride/ online
  * The activist influence of LGSM (e.g. on Lesbians and Gays Support
    Migrants)
Please send abstracts/proposals (up to 500 words max.) for all formats 
of submission to Catherine Grant 
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/183852> (University of Sussex) and 
Diarmaid Kelliher 
<http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/pgresearch/diarmaidkelliher/> 
(University of Glasgow) ((priderevisited /at/ gmail.com)) by 31 May 2017. We 
expect to reply with our selection decisions by 15 June 2017. Final 
articles of 7,000-8,000 words for double-blind peer review (please 
contact the editors if you wish to propose or discuss an alternative 
format), including references and bibliography, will be due by 30 
November 2017.

The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation <https://mellon.org/>-funded 
open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a 
prestigious academic steering board. Unlike some open-access 
publications, the OLH has no author-facing charges and is instead 
financially supported by an international consortium of libraries 
<https://about.openlibhums.org/libraries/supporting-institutions/>.

To learn more about the Open Library of Humanities please visit: 
https://www.openlibhums.org/.

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