[Commlist] Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption Special Issue on 'Sanditon as Post-Heritage Drama'

Call for Papers: Film, Fashion & Consumption


Special Issue: ‘Sanditon as Post-Heritage Drama’


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https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-fashion-consumption#call-for-papers 
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The principal editor of Film, Fashion & Consumption, Pamela Church 
Gibson, has observed that the 'demand for period dramas in […] 
post-heritage form’ seems insatiable. It matches other recent comments 
on the fact that there is a rampant demand for screen productions in the 
romance genre, especially. I am therefore very pleased to announce a 
special issue of Film, Fashion & Consumptiondedicated to Andrew Davies’s 
TV-adaptation of Jane Austen’s manuscript fragment Sanditon (PBS 2019–23).


I suggest that contemporary, serialized post-heritage forms of period 
drama in particular adopt an alternative critical perspective on history 
that can be unpicked through a post-modern theoretical framework. Will 
Stanford Abbiss’s study of the already iconic TV series The Crown 
(Netflix 2016–) indicates five central guiding elements for a 
post-modern film analysis: interrogation, subversion, subjectivity, 
self-consciousness and ambiguity (Abbiss 2020). When applied, these 
elements help us pinpoint how the literary components of such period 
dramas can be adapted to also reflect contemporary culture, primarily by 
‘letting the critiques of narrative dominate over the visual pleasures 
of [traditional] heritage’ (Abbiss 2020: 827). I have demonstrated how 
such a post-modern framework can be applied to Sanditon when I recently 
wrote about the costumes of one of its principal characters, Edith 
Denham (Ulfsdotter 2022).


Given the rich array of aspects that Andrew Davies’s adaptation 
proposes, scholarly topics of particular interest for our special issue 
on Sanditon would be:

  *

    screenplay; both Andrew Davies’s story line and individual episodes

  *

    conditions of production

  *

    comparative studies of Sanditon and other screen productions of
    Austen’s novels

  *

    iterations of contemporary discussions such as the Western history
    of slavery, feminism and law in Sanditon

  *

    critical reception

  *

    fandom perspectives

  *

      publicity material, such as trailers, behind the scenes imagery

  *

    generic shifts/treatments informing for example the relation between
    nostalgia and cultural heritage in Sanditon

  *

    Sanditon in relation to Will Abbiss’s suggested theoretical framework

  *

    costuming including hair and make-up

  *

    mise-en-scène

  *

    acting style

  *

    editing

  *

    locale in reference to images of heritage

  *

    actor selection

  *

    soundscape.


Send an article proposal of 300 words including a reference list of five 
key titles and 6-8 key words, together with a short bio to 
(Boel.ulfsdotter /at/ gu.se) <mailto:(Boel.ulfsdotter /at/ gu.se)> before October 
2023. If accepted, your complete article of 6000–8000 words, including 
copy-cleared images, should be submitted by January 2024.


Acceptance notes will be sent out by December 2023. This Special Issue 
of Film, Fashion & Consumptionwill be published in 2025.


*Guest Editor:*

Boel Ulfsdotter

University of Gothenburg, Sweden


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