[Commlist] CfP: Film Education Journal - Decolonising Film Education

Call for Papers: Film Education Journal

SpecialIssue-DecolonisingFilm Education (to be published June 2022)

Guest Editors:ProfessorJyoti Mistry(HDK-Valand Academy)and Dr 
LizelleBisschoff(University of Glasgow)

Decolonizing Methodologies is not a method for revolution in a political 
sense but provokes some revolutionary thinking about the roles that 
knowledge, knowledge production, knowledge hierarchies and knowledge 
institutions play in decolonization and social transformation.

(Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1999Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and 
Indigenous Peoples)

This special issue ondecolonisingfilmeducationhighlights some of the 
contemporary and at times contrasting conceptions of the termand its 
applicability toresearch andpractice. This relationship between research 
and practice has direct implications for reanimatingpedagogies in both 
film education and screen studies.Moreover,it presents an opportunity to 
investigate how synergies might be developed between film 
history,theory, analysisanditspraxis.The focus of this issue attendsto 
the multiple understandings of decolonialand its potential 
toadvancescholarship in film studies, to expand creativefilmpractice and 
to addressfilm education curriculathat revitalizespedagogicstrategies.

This call for contributions invites practitioners and pedagogues 
involved in film education to draw from their own experiences, 
challenges andresolutions in engaging with decolonial propositions in 
the classroom,incurriculum content and at the institutional level. What 
forms of student-teacher dialogues are necessary in order to facilitate 
open exchange about the historical structures of knowledge and 
representation? How do institutions support the political urgency for 
social change by decolonializing learning, teaching and research? How 
can film education expand the references of its aesthetic forms to 
include a broader spectrum of film practices? And how do we rework modes 
of representation in film, in order to address historical power 
structures that have marginalized or elided certain narratives and 
subjects in cinema?

We propose the following(butnotlimited to)areasof interest:

  *

    Decolonisingstrategies in film production pedagogy

  *

    Decolonisingapproaches to teaching film studies

  *

    Interviews with filmmakers whose practice and
    work embraces decolonial perspectives

  *

    Case studies from teaching experiences that foregrounds decolonial
    processes in film production and film studies

  *

    Institutional, cultural and political challenges and resolutions
    towardsdecolonising film education

  *

    Potential and imagined propositions for decolonising film production
    and film studies

Contributions may be drawn fromexperiencesgleanedfrom teaching 
andreflections from working with students to develop curricula that 
attends to the political urgencies ofdecolonisingthe frameworks of 
education on the levels of content, modes of teaching and the structures 
necessary to support these interventions.

In keeping with the ethos of decolonial propositionsas inclusiveand 
expansiveof multiple forms of knowledge and expression, we 
invitedifferent written forms*and*audio-visual formats.


We invite papers, contributions on case studies or focused 
interviewswith filmpractitioners or teachers of between 4,000 to 8,000 
words each.Interviews need a strongcontextual framing andtheoretical 
and/or analytical basis.

Audio-visual essaysshouldcapture decolonial approaches or exemplify 
aesthetic and conceptual engagement with decolonialstrategiesor 
processes.Audio-visual essays should be a maximum of 20 minutes in 
length and accompanied by a writtensupporting statement of 1,000 words 
maximum, articulating the research aims and how these aims are achieved 
in the audio-visual format.

Abstracts of proposed written contributions or audio-visual descriptions 
should not exceed 500 words andmust include abio of no longer than 150 
words.In the case of proposed interviews,pleaseincludethe bios of both 
subjectsand brief description of the interview framework.The guest 
editors willenter intoa dialogue with theconfirmedauthors oftheproposed 
submissionstowards shaping the final contributions.

Abstracts and bios should be emailed (tofilmeducationjournal /at/ ed.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(filmeducationjournal /at/ ed.ac.uk)>byTuesday6 April2021.Any questions 
should be directed to the same address.


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