[ecrea] CFP: Journal of African Cinemas Special Issue (30 Sept)

Call for papers: The Cinematic City: Desire, Form and the African Urban 
(Special Issue​)​

Submission of abstracts: 30 September 2017
Submission of articles: 28 February 2018

This special issue of the Journal of African Cinemas seeks articles that 
address questions at the intersections of cinematic form and the African 
urban. We aim to examine the contribution of cinema and audiovisual 
media to our understanding and experience of contemporary cities from an 
African perspective. We also want to problematize the circulation of 
terms such as “Afropolitanism,” “Afro-polis” “Afro-modernity” and 
“Afro-urbanity”, which often define the kinds of sentiment invested in 
or associated with the city in Africa. We are seeking articles that 
question whether these terms sufficiently evoke issues of specificity 
and materiality.

We also seek submissions that read the African city – and its diasporas 
– as form. The editors frame city and screenscapes as co-constitutive, 
foregrounding the diegetic and extra-diegetic elements that inform the 
“African urban” as a cinematic form. We are interested in articles 
situated within an interdisciplinary matrix that contribute to 
intellectual engagement with African cinemas through, among others, 
affect theory and the city as a matrix of feeling; critical black 
geography and the racialized construction of city spaces; the urban as a 
temporal consciousness; and representations of social inequalities and 
urban geographies of exclusion.

This special issue aims to that unpack the broad affective, aesthetic 
and material dimensions of African visuality, spatiality and temporality 
in African and diasporic audiovisual media. We also welcome articles 
that engage with film manufacture, circulation and consumption. Papers 
may cover (but are not limited to) the following:

·      Genre and African film as visual and verbal narrative
·      Aesthetics and African cinema as an urban form
·      Space, place and the infrastructures of the African city
·      Black subjectivity and geographic boundedness of the African urban
·      Comparative analyses with other (visual) forms of representation
·      African cinema, social inequality and urban geographies of exclusion

All submissions should adhere to JAC guidelines: https://goo.gl/Mn1GhS

Submissions should not be more to 8,000 words and should include a 200 
word abstract and five keywords. The 8,000 words includes references, 
graphics and photos equivalent to 250 words each. The document(s) should 
be sent as Microsoft Word and/ or JPEG attachment(s) respectively.
Prospective contributors should send an abstract (300 words) and short 
bio to Danai Mupotsa: (danai.mupotsa /at/ wits.ac.za) and Polo Moji: 
(polo.moji /at/ wits.ac.za) by 30 September 2017.

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