[Commlist] cfp Audiovisual Traces for Journal Research in Film and History

Call for Articles

The peer-reviewed OA online journal "Research in Film and History" 
invites proposals for its next issue "Audiovisual Traces"

Andrey Tarkovsky approached filmmaking as “sculpting in time,” which 
means that film is able to “capture time.” In the recorded form, as a 
final product, a film leaves traces through time that can be preserved, 
reproduced, recontextualized, as well as forgotten and lost. Along this 
line of thought, these audiovisual traces acquire both temporal and 
spatial dimensions, material and mnemonic capacities. In this regard, 
e.g. archival footage filmed in the German Democratic Republic and 
reused or recontextualized in the German post-reunification cinema can 
be approached as audiovisual traces, as well as cinematically 
established representations of the Holocaust carefully reproduced in 
contemporary fiction films like „Persian Lessons" (Vadim Perelman, 2020).

In the next issue, "Research in Film and History" invites scholars to 
critically reflect on the following questions: How can the notion 
“audiovisual traces” be conceptualized in regard to cinema and 
audiovisual artifacts of various historical periods and national 
contexts? What functions can audiovisual traces have? What methods and 
approaches can be applied to study audiovisual traces? How can 
audiovisual traces be collected, evaluated, reinterpreted, or even 
redesigned? We encourage submissions that apply or critically reflect on 
research methods on the intersection of history, film, memory studies, 
and digital humanities. We also invite proposals on articles, video 
essays, and other forms of audiovisual research that focus on 
theoretically informed case studies.

Possible contribution topics include (but are not limited to):

– Conservation, preservation, usage, reinterpretation: film archives and 
archival footage in film;

– Mediated memory: audiovisual traces in their mnemonic capacity;

– Transitions: spatial and temporal dimensions of audiovisual traces;

– Being trac(k)ed;

– Manipulation, imitation, fabrication.

"Research in Film and History" welcomes contributions written in 
English. Please submit abstracts (max. 300 words) by May 31st, 2021 in 
MS Word file formats to (film-history /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
<mailto:(film-history /at/ uni-bremen.de)> A style guide for submissions and 
further information for authors can be found here: 
https://film-history.org/submit <https://film-history.org/submit> 
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by June 7th, 2021. Complete 
drafts are due September 1st, 2021. All texts submitted should be 
original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. 
All submissions undergo a double-blind peer-review process. No APCs are 
charged.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at 
(film-history /at/ uni-bremen.de) <mailto:(film-history /at/ uni-bremen.de)>

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