[Commlist] CFP: One Shot Hitchcock: Contemporary Approaches to the Screen

Dr Melanie Robson and Mr Luke Robinson are seeking essays for our 
proposed book: /One Shot Hitchcock: Contemporary Approaches to the Screen/.

/One Shot Hitchcock: Contemporary Approaches to the Screen/is an edited 
collection that interrogates poignant and memorable shots from across 
Alfred Hitchcock’s long transnational career. Each chapter takes one 
shot from a single film, beginning with his silent era and ending with 
/Family Plot/(1976). If Hitchcock is known as a director of suspense 
films, and films about murder, the shots discussed in /One Shot 
Hitchcock /are his crime scenes: these are the shots that resist being 
forgotten, these are the shots that repeatedly demand to be 
investigated, these are the shots in which Hitchcock’s influence on 
aesthetics and culture is at its most acute.

Taking Marilyn Fabe’s/Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art 
of Narrative and Film Technique /as a model, each chapter of /One Shot 
Hitchcock/exemplifies a contemporary approach to the screen and screen 
culture. The book is structured in parts, each with a focus on a 
different ‘lens’ of film analysis: gender and sexuality, race, affect, 
film and philosophy, and film form are all used to interrogate single 
shots from Hitchcock’s films. In these essays the single shot from 
Hitchcock’s film not only illustrates the approach in question but also 
demonstrates how the single shot encourages us to rethink our approaches 
to the screen and screen culture.

We are seeking potential contributors to submit a proposal which 
includes a *300 word abstract*to *(oneshot.hitchcock /at/ gmail.com) *by the 
*14th October 2020*. Selected contributors will be asked to write a 
4000-6000 words essay (including bibliography) on their chosen shot.

We have already received proposals for /The Man Who Knew Too Much /(both 
versions), /Rebecca/,/Shadow of a Doubt/, /Rope/,/Strangers on a Train/, 
/The Wrong Man/,/Vertigo/,/The Birds/and /Marnie/and we encourage 
potential contributors to think beyond these films. We welcome proposals 
from all eras of Hitchcock’s career, but are particularly interested in 
papers on his British silent and sound era, television (such as /Alfred 
Hitchcock Presents/) and his late 1960s-1970s period.

Based on the abstracts we have already received we particularly welcome 
papers that take the following approaches to Hitchcock’s work:

  * Philosophy
  * Class
  * Technology
  * Race/ethnicity
  * Affect
  * Auteur theory
  * Memory and history
  * Queer theory
  * (Trans)national cinemas/global cinemas

Please submit proposals as a Word document, with title, 300 word 
abstract, researcher’s full name, title, institutional affiliation (if 
possible) and short bio (max 100 words). Please save the file as your 
surname, Hitchcock film, approach.

The abstract should:

  * Name the Hitchcock film, TV episode, screen text
  * Provide details of the shot (place in narrative, details of
    cinematography, sound etc)
  * Outline the approach to the screen adopted (with reference to key
    scholarship, as applicable)
  * Explain how and why this particular shot is relevant for the
    approach adopted and/or for a critical understanding of Hitchcock's
    body of work.

We look forward to reading your proposals. If you have any questions 
about the co-edited collection, please contact Dr Melanie Robson or Mr 
Luke Robinson at (oneshot.hitchcock /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(oneshot.hitchcock /at/ gmail.com)>

Dr Melanie Robson holds a Ph.D. in film studies. She is an adjunct 
lecturer at the School of the Arts & Media at UNSW Australia, and a 
lecturer at AFTRS. She is co-founder and president of the Sydney Screen 
Studies Network (SSSN). Her research investigates the long take, 
modernist cinema, horror television, and evolutions of film style across 
contemporary European and American film. She has been published in 
/Studies in European Cinema /and /Mise-en-Scene./

Mr Luke Robinson is a Ph.D. candidate and sessional lecturer at the 
School of the Arts & Media at UNSW.  He is also the treasurer of the 
Sydney Screen Studies Network (SSSN) and a video artist working with 
Move in Pictures.  Luke’s research interests are classical Hollywood 
film, issues and theories and politics of visibility and invisibility, 
aesthetics and politics of fascism and film, approaches to film 
materiality, and theories of film sound.

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