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[Commlist] Call for papers: proposed edited collection Seen and Unseen Universities - Academia and Higher Learning in Popular Culture

Mon Feb 07 12:52:44 GMT 2022





Abstracts are invited in response to the call for papers below:

In the age of Netflix's /The Chair/, it hardly needs saying that film and televisual representations of education are powerful mediators of our understanding of academic culture and activity. While knowledge production within learned circles, and disciplinary ways of establishing credibility and truth, are experienced by millions within universities and other institutes of higher learning, it is the popular cultural representations of these that seem to carry more weight in public and policy discourse. Of late, these representations have portrayed sources of tension between academic, scientific knowledge and many other types of knowledge production; and central to these tensions is the cultural authority and representation of science and the academy.

This call for papers takes science fiction/fantasy film and television as its focal point, however contributions going wider than the /science fiction /genre are welcome. The collection treats science fiction/fantasy as creating an entry point and a space to explore how film and television mediate knowledge and education, from high school dramas (which themselves often overlap with science fiction as well as fantasy) to forensic or policing shows, which endorse a positive scientific worldview.

Chapters should focus on the cultural production of knowledge in the academy and as mediated or presented through film and television; a focus that also invites scrutiny of how the academy itself is viewed in popular culture (e.g. /The Chair/; Terry Pratchett's Unseen University; /Doctor Who/'s Time Lord Academy; the Ivy League world of /Legally Blonde/; or the Vulcan Science Academy of /Star Trek)/.

The collection is envisaged as comprising an introduction, twelve chapters of 6000 words each and a conclusion. We are in discussion with a UK publisher for this collection.

In addition to /The Chair/, /Star Trek/, the Unseen University, and /Doctor Who/, contributions on film and television traversing science fiction and fantasy as well as film and television mediating the representation of academia will be welcome.

*Proposals of 300 words* with a short author bionote (150 words) should be send to Marcus Harmes by April 5^th 2022 ((marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au) <mailto:(marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au)>)


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