[Commlist] Call for Book Proposals - Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East

Call for Book Proposals

Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East

Peter Lang Publishing

Book Series Editors:

Chris Lippard (University of Utah)

Terri Ginsberg (Concordia University, Montréal)

Book proposals are sought for publication in a new book series, Cinema 
and Media Cultures in the Middle East, the purpose of which is to 
demarcate and critically examine the shifting terrain of film- and 
media-making in the Middle East, and of practices of film and media 
studies regarding it, testing them both against their larger, social 
enabling conditions at the national, regional, and transnational levels. 
Titles in the series will engage recent developments in the field of 
Middle East film and media studies and will help point the field in an 
intellectually meaningful, pedagogically effective direction in relation 
to both current and, in some cases, significant, previously ignored, 
older work.

The proposed series is conceived at a moment during which Middle Eastern 
film and film criticism have begun to develop in new directions. Recent 
years have witnessed a modest increase in scholarly engagement with 
topics and modes of inquiry often previously considered outside academic 
discourse. A handful of books and special journal issues published in 
English over the past half-decade, focusing on specific Middle Eastern 
countries such as Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Iran, Palestine/Israel and 
Turkey, as well as the long-overdue establishment of cinema studies as 
an emerging field of academic inquiry within universities located in the 
Arab world, indicate a preponderance of previously unproblematized 
issues now circulating within the field. These include critical 
questions from queer and transgendered perspectives about the 
representation of women, and from indigenous and settler colonial 
studies perspectives about the representation of migrant workers and 
refugees, the growing importance of documentary, digital animation, and 
hybrid shooting, the continuing influence of global cinema imperatives, 
and the revival of interest in militant, revolutionary and third cinema 
aesthetics.

Proposals should indicate an interest in engaging Middle Eastern cinema 
theoretically and/or historiographically, in challenging and innovative 
ways. Welcome are critical genealogies based in research at newly 
available film and document archives; new theoretical approaches to 
cinema of the region, including decolonial critiques of Western 
scholarship, and analyses that draw from important, seldom-referenced 
film critical texts in languages of the region; translations of key, 
book-length texts in these languages; and new interventions into 
neglected aspects of more traditional areas such as genre, auteur, and 
national film criticism. Likewise of interest are projects that engage 
philosophical and analytic theories and methodologies in order to shed 
critical light on contemporary conditions of cinematic production and 
reception in the Arab world and wider Middle East.

A successful proposal might therefore offer critical innovations in the 
study of stylistic and non-Western variants on theory, methodology, and 
argumentation; bring to the fore indigenous, decolonial, queer, 
transnational, and new media approaches to Middle Eastern cinematic 
representation; make available important texts previously inaccessible 
to Anglophone readers; and provide intellectually challenging avenues 
for comprehending, analyzing, and understanding contemporary and 
historical cultural politics and systems in the Middle East region.

Please send inquiries, or submit your book prospectus along with 
supporting material, usually an abstract, one or two sample chapter(s), 
and your curriculum vitae, to:

Chris Lippard (University of Utah) - (c.lippard /at/ utah.edu)

*and*

Terri Ginsberg (Concordia University, Montréal) - 
(terri.ginsberg /at/ concordia.ca)

Editorial Advisory Board

Greg Burris (American University of Beirut)

Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg)

Donatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University)

Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow)

Kevin Dwyer (Independent Scholar)

Sarah El-Richani (The American University in Cairo)

Hadi Gharabaghi (Drew University)

Iman Hamam (The American University in Cairo)

Hossein Khosrowjah (St. Mary’s College of California)

Bindu Menon (Azim Premji University)

Najat Rahman (Université de Montréal)

Helga Tawil-Souri (New York University)

Alia Yunis (New York University Abu Dhabi)


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