[Commlist] Frames Cinema Journal CfP: Phone Camera at the Intersection of Technology, Politics, and Transmedia Storytelling

Frames Cinema Journal

Call for Papers

Phone Camera at the Intersection of Technology, Politics, and Transmedia 
Storytelling

Issue 18, Summer 2021

Co-Editors-in-Chief: Lucia Szemetová & Jacob Browne

Book Review Editor: Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal

In view of recent and current global events, the phone camera has 
emerged as an important and effective political apparatus. The 
centrality, proliferation, and prominence of phone footage across 
contemporary screen media and media platforms suggests that the phone 
camera is no longer just an indulgent phone fixture, but rather, an 
invaluable truth-telling tool. Practical, accessible, and autonomously 
used, the phone camera has been an essential technology to the 
present-day exposures of injustice, violence, and corruption around the 
world.

Media scholars have examined how the advent of phone camera technology 
has presented a new communicative strategy, challenged the epistemology 
of documentary truth, and disrupted prevailing models of 
representation—as well as present new modes of cinema—via its 
documenting and creative potential. Building on this body of work, Issue 
18 of Frames Cinema Journalseeks to examine the political and inventive 
power of the phone camera, and its footage, by considering its complex 
intersections with technology, ideology, and other media. Frames invites 
considerations of phone footage’s formal, technological, and narrative 
properties as well as its relation to other networks of media and their 
transnational dissemination to contribute critically to the flowering 
academic discourse on the subject.

We are keen on hearing from contributors working on original research 
involving previously unexamined phone footage media, particularly in 
relation to current socio-political contexts.

Topics to discuss and analyse phone footage may include, but are 
certainly not limited to:

• Phone footage as evidence/truth-telling medium

• Phone footage and activism (e.g. human rights, feminist, religious 
conflict, racial injustice)

• Phone footage at the boundaries of politics

• Phone footage as a narrative device in fiction/non-fiction films

• Phone footage and Marxist critique

• Phone footage aesthetics and technology

• Phone footage, and non-normative uses of visual media

• Phone footage and online social platforms

• Phone footage and transmedia storytelling

• Phone footage performance of violence and body politics

• Phone footage, home movies, and amateur film discourse

• Phone footage festivals

Notes for Contributors:

Proposal abstracts should be no more than 250 wordsand must be 
accompanied by an indicative bibliography. A brief third-person bio of 
approx.150 wordsshould be provided along with the abstract.

Abstracts should be sent through as Word Documents and titled “Frames 
Issue 18 Author First name Author Surname” (e.g. Frames Issue 18 Dziga 
Vertov).

Please submit your proposal to Lucia Szemetová and Jacob Browne at 
(framesjournal /at/ gmail.com).

Framesaccepts a variety of written pieces for submission, such as:

·Feature Articles, which are research essays that engage in theoretical, 
practical, pedagogical, and/or historical analysis of the visual 
narrative in film or related digital media. Feature Articles are 
typically between 5,000-7,000 words in length, inclusive of footnotes, 
but exclusive of the bibliography.

·Point-of-View (POV) Featurettes, which are shorter research essays 
which seek to examine or express a specific critique about a theme in a 
more succinct fashion. Point-of-View (POV) Featurettes are typically 
between 1,000-3,000 words in length, inclusive of footnotes, but 
exclusive of the bibliography.

·Film Featurettes, which are shorter research essays, discuss and review 
one film in detail. Film Featurettes are typically between 1,000-3,000 
words in length, inclusive of footnotes, but exclusive of the bibliography.

·Scene Reviews,which are shorter research essays, investigate and review 
one scene in detail. Scene Reviews are typically between 1,000-2,000 
words in length, inclusive of footnotes, but exclusive of the bibliography.

·Book Reviews, which are essays that provide a scholarly critique of the 
latest texts in the field. The text choice may range from the 
theoretical and the practical to the pedagogical and the historical. 
Book Reviews are typically 1,000-1,500 words in length, inclusive of 
footnotes, but exclusive of the bibliography. If you would like to 
publish a book review, please contact our Book Review Editor, Anushrut 
Ramakrishnan Agrwaal, at (ara5 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(ara5 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)>.

Framesalso accepts video essay submissions:

·Video essayscan be of varying length and should be discussed with the 
editors on a case-by-case basis. Video essay submissions must be sent to 
the editors in the form of a link using an online platform (Vimeo, 
YouTube, etc.).

All submissions to Framesshould not be under consideration elsewhere, 
and should be original and previously unpublished.

Please refer to our Submissions page 
<http://framescinemajournal.com/submissions/>for more details.

Timetable for Issue 18:

Abstract Proposal Deadline (EXTENDED):28/02/2021

Abstract Decision Announcement (EXTENDED): 03/03/2021

First Draft Deadline: 18/04/2021

Editorial Review:19/04/2021 - 02/05/2021

Final Copy Deadline: 30/05/2021

Intended Publication Week: 07/06/2021

Abstracts are to be submitted no later than Sunday, February 28, 2021, 
as they will not be considered after that. Authors should expect to be 
notified of the editorial committee’s decision by *Wednesday*, March 3, 
2021.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at 
(framesjournal /at/ gmail.com).


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