[Commlist] CFC Documentary Film and Minority Language Media

Book on documentary film and minority language media:

https://bit.ly/3BJxby4 <https://bit.ly/3BJxby4>

Book Title: *Documentary Film and Minority Language Media*

Book Series: Documentary Film Cultures (Peter Lang)

(https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC 
<https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC>)

CFC: September 7, 2021

CFC deadline: *December 15, 2021*

Edited by: Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones (University of Wales of Trinity Saint 
David) and Dafydd  Sills-Jones (Auckland University of Technology).

Published in association with: the International Association of Minority 
Language Media Research (IAMLMR): https://uwtsd.ac.uk/iamlmr/ 
<https://uwtsd.ac.uk/iamlmr/>

This edited collection brings together an analysis of documentary 
film/media and minority  language media, both of which are concerned 
with the complex relationships between ‘the  real’ and codified cultural 
expression. Both areas are therefore also necessarily concerned  with 
the relationship cultural expression has with power and identity. This 
collection seeks to address a lack in the existing literature, by 
creating a space where these areas can  intersect.

In that context, minority languages might have a range of relationships 
to documentary  film/media. Documentary might be regarded as a tool of 
revitalisation, or of official  standardisation, or of misrepresentation 
and appropriation. Individual texts, the work of  specific authors, and 
the strategies of specific broadcasters or distributors might also sit 
 across such functional categories, speaking to the complexity of the 
relationship between  these elements. The relationship between producers 
and consumers of Minority Language  Media has often been regarded as one 
of ‘proximity’ (Garitaonandia & Moragas Spà, 1996)  and it is 
interesting to ponder how these proxemics compare to those at work 
between ‘makers’ and ‘subjects’ in the context of documentary. As new 
players enter the field of documentary production and distribution - be 
they individuals, groups, institutions or organisations whose primary 
roles are defined by their connection to minority language - how can the 
notion of a minority language documentary culture be formulated?

As a cultural form, documentary film/media itself has a complex 
relationship with verbal language. Operating within a sense-making 
domain that is sometimes referred to as ‘cinematic language’, 
documentary has its own aesthetic traditions, modifications and codes of 
visual-aural communication, which often make use of spoken or written 
forms of language. Some forms of documentary privilege ‘creative’, 
non-linguistic visual and aural effects (i.e., /Leviathan/, 
Castaing-Taylor & Pavel, 2012), while others embrace the use of language 
for the purposes of direct exposition (i.e., the traditions of political 
reportage documentary). There are canonical examples that use linguistic 
patterns and rhythms as part of their creative array (i.e. /Tongues 
Untied/, Riggs, 1989), a use of language that has been extended by the 
possibilities of interactive and hybrid live/digital documentary formats 
(see Aston, Gaudenzi & Rose, 2017). How do the politics and positionings 
of minority languages affect the ways in which language and documentary 
work together, on a text by text basis?

Topics to be considered include following areas:

● Structures and contexts in which documentary content is produced, 
distributed and consumed in minority language cultures.

● Documentary form as codification or as sociolinguistic tool in 
minority language studies

● Documentary and ethnographic research

● Documentary as archive material and historical evidence in minority 
language cultures

● How documentary production and distribution systems reflect the 
politics of minority (and dominant) language media,

● Consideration of minority language documentaries as means of resistance

● Consideration of the way in which issues surrounding MLM affect the 
philosophy of documentary film, and its complex relationship to the real

● Specific texts and authors who use minority languages in a range of 
ways, forms and styles

We welcome a range of written formats:

*Full Research Chapter*: 7000-8000 words. These are traditionally 
formatted book chapters, with the academic depth and rigour expected in 
an edited collection.

*Provocation*, *Think Piece *or *Interview*: 2000-5000 words. A shorter 
format for the positioning of a set of questions or critical problems. 
These pieces could also outline a particular perspective on the ‘here 
and now’ circumstances of documentary and minority language. Interviews 
should be with leading practitioners in the field of documentary making 
who have a specific and significant outlook on this issue.

*Proposed Timeline for publication*:

Call for Chapters: September 7, 2021

Proposal submission: December 15, 2021

Notification of preliminary acceptance: March 31, 2022

Full drafts: December 15, 2022

Expected publication date: December 2023

*Please send proposals of 350 words outlining the following:*

  * *your subject area and object of study/analysis*
  * *your theoretical focus with brief indicative bibliography (up to 5
    items) any pertinent examples (films, institutions, people)*
  * *a brief biography and your present institutional affiliation*
  * *contact details including correspondence address*

*Send by email to Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones ((elin.jones /at/ uwtsd.ac.uk)) and 
Dafydd Sills-Jones ((dafydd.sills-jones /at/ aut.ac.nz)).*

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