[Commlist] Call for Papers: Costume, Make-up, and Hairstyling in Small National Cinemas

LUMINACE announces a Call for Papers for its new themed issue:

Costume, Make-up, and Hairstyling in Small National Cinemas

Guest Editor: Šárka Jelínek Gmiterková (Masaryk University)
Deadline for abstracts: February 27, 2026
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026

Czech costume designer Ester Krumbachová defined film costumes as 
phantoms. Clothing, as seen on screen and worn by fictional characters, 
is a rather slippery visual expression, offering hints and clues instead 
of exhaustive description. Throughout the 1960s, Krumbachová’s own 
costume creations resembled haunting images, fitting for modernist 
cinema and Czech New Wave aesthetics. Through her personal estate, she 
was rediscovered years later, being one of the few costume designers in 
the region whose work was became an unmistakable part of local film 
heritage (see Svatoňová and Jeřábková, 2022).

But what about other movies, which are not carried by strong artistic 
visions but by genre conventions, star associations and collaborations 
with fashion industries? How does costume assist with negotiations of 
global genre labels vis-a-vis their local adjustments? How does screen 
style articulate domestic notions of heritage or modernity? And what 
about people, who designed these visions; sometimes staying invisible 
and other times crossing over from peripheral, culturally and nationally 
specific industries onto global recognition and opportunities? Although 
the area of costume design analysis emerged no later than in the early 
1990s, these questions in the context of cinemas of small nations have 
been addressed only rarely.

Read the full Call for Papers here:
<https://iluminace.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1400_Call-for-papers.php?l=EN 
<https://iluminace.cz/artkey/inf-990000-1400_Call-for-papers.php?l=EN>>

Contributions to the issue can cover following areas, but are not 
limited to them:

*Analysis of individual movies or cluster of films, focusing on costumes 
and/or make-upcontributions to genre aesthetic, narration, character 
construction, world building, andvisual design
*Individual careers of costume designers / make-up artists / 
hairdressers; contemporary as well as historical personalities
*Case studies of intersections between costume design and fashion
*The notion of historical accuracy and authenticity in film costume and 
screen make-up
*Working conditions, communications, cooperations and hierarchies on 
sets; both on domestic films and/or tv projects as well as runway 
productions
*Education and training in both areas
*Investigation of star images from the costume and/or make-up perspectives
*Concepts of beauty and glamour across different regions, periods and 
political regimes
*Costume and make-up and / versus performance
*Credits, Prestige, values and awards: establishing costume designers, 
make-up artists and hairdressers as organic components of film crews and 
their position within
*Reception, appropriation and dissemination of film fashion, costume 
styles and screen make-up

Submission Details:
*Abstracts (250 words + 3–5 references) and a short bio (150 words)
are due by February 27, 2026.
*Authors will be notified by March 20, 2026.
*Full submissions are due by June 15, 2026.
*No payments are required.

The detailed submission guidelines can be found on our journal’s 
website: <https://iluminace.cz/?l=en <https://iluminace.cz/?l=en>>

Submit via online form: 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsyqY36hLfko6Mwsul-bMpfOb-mDgf9y72F-jXzZkEGmOgXw/viewform?usp=preview 



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