[ecrea] Film Criticism Special Issue on Film & Merchandise Call For Papers

/FilmCriticism/ Special Issue onFilm&MerchandiseCall For Papers 
(November 2018)
Guest editors: Dr. Elizabeth Affuso (Pitzer College) and Dr. Avi Santo 
(Old Dominion University)

Despite Jane Gaines’ (1989) recognition that the cinema screen and the 
department store display window have long participated in providing 
audiences with spectacles of consumption that steered shoppers toward 
one another’s venues, there is surprisingly little work that critically 
interrogatesfilm-relatedmerchandise.Only recently have scholars started 
to take this area of study seriously. For example, media industry 
scholars have begun to pay attention to the creative, legal, and 
managerial contestations among licensors, manufacturers, and retailers, 
contending thatmerchandiseis not simply an afterthought of media 
production, distribution, acquisition, and circulation, but also an area 
where industry lore about differentiated franchises and consumers are 
affirmed and challenged.Others contend that the 
meaningsmerchandiseaccrue are constituted through their use as much as 
by how they are positioned for consumers. On the fan studies front, 
scholars have become interested in object-oriented fandom as well as 
‘fan-trepreneurs’ who sell ‘fan-mademerchandise’ through crafting and 
customization sites like Etsy. These works have explored the 
commoditization of fandom, but they have also sought to understand what 
fan communities ‘do’ withmerchandiseand how fan-based economies operate. 
There has also been a tendency to explore howmerchandiseinterpellates 
particular gendered and age-based identities, with fashion and 
toy-basedmerchandisereceiving the bulk of attention, but scholarship on 
the intersections ofmerchandisewith race, sexuality, and religion 
remains scarce as does work investigating the waysfilm-inspired products 
have entered into daily routines as household items and other lifestyle 
categories.

For this special issue of/FilmCriticism,/ we are seeking essays that 
take a variety of approaches to the intersections offilm, television, 
andmerchandisethat open up new avenues of inquiry to studying the topic.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

-Industrial, consumer and fan sense-making practices when it comes 
tomerchandise(i.e., their imagined appeal to various constituencies, 
their “authenticity”)
-Films aboutmerchandiseand/or product integration withinfilms (/The LEGO 
Movie/, /Toy Story/, /The Devil Wears Prada/)
-When manufacturers become entertainment companies (Hasbro, Mattel, 
Sketchers)
-Industry lore, trade rituals, and their impact on merchandising
-Filmmerchandisebeyond toys and fashion (including everyday household 
and luxury items)
-Merchandising beyond the franchise/tentpole/blockbusters
-Branded educational, nutrition, health and hygienemerchandise(or the 
use of brandedmerchandisewithin schools, healthcare, and other service 
industries)
-Merchandiseand transmedia storytelling
-Packaging and product design
-Race andmerchandise(merchandisefeaturing diverse racial groups or 
failing to do so;merchandisemarketed to diverse racial 
groups;merchandiseused by diverse consumer and fan groups)
-Merchandisebeyond child markets (including adultmerchandise)
-Merchandiseand the troubling of gender binaries
-Celebrity andmerchandise(or celebrity and lifestyle)
-DIYmerchandiseand the logics of customization/maker cultures (as well 
as anxieties over 3D printers and other DIY technologies)
-Merchandiseand performative consumption (or interactive consumption)
-Merchandiseand (commoditized) self-expression/group affiliation
-Fan-mademerchandise
-Ethnographies ofmerchandiseusage among fans or different consumer groups
-Fan consumer-activism
-Promotional giveaways and premiums

Essays should be a maximum of 7000 words including notes and references 
and use Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition 
(http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html 
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Please submit essays electronically as a Word document file to 
(asanto /at/ odu.edu) <mailto:(asanto /at/ odu.edu)>. Submissions should also include 
a cover page with: (a) all authors’ names, academic affiliations, and 
e-mail addresses; (b) author biography, no more than 70 words in length; 
and (c) an abstract of 150 words or fewer. Drafts should be submitted 
for review by May 1, 2018.  You will receive acknowledgment of your 
submission within ten days.  Works accepted for this special issue will 
be returned to contributors with reviewer feedback by July 1 and revised 
drafts will be due on September 1 for a November 2018 publication date.


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Avi Santo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Institute for the Humanities
Old Dominion University
Office: Batten Arts & Letters 3042
Tel: 757-683-3719
E-mail: (asanto /at/ odu.edu)

Co-Creator, Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 
(http://flowtv.org)
Co-Creator & Co-Managing Editor, MediaCommons: A Digital Scholarly 
Network (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org)
Creator, In Media Res (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr)


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Program Coordinator // Farm Forward

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Program Coordinator // Farm Forward



Additional Information

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Schedule of Sessions (U.S. Eastern Time) - Wednesday, April 4, 2018

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    Session 1 – 12:00pm - 12:35pm

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