[ecrea] CFP: Special edition of THE PROJECTOR: New Approaches to Food and Film

The Projector: An Electronic Journal on Film, Media, and Culture is 
seeking research essays for an issue on food, film, and media/consumer 
culture.
While there are a collection of food films that have acquired canonical 
status, e.g., Babette's Feast, Tampopo, Big Night, foodways play an 
integral role in scores of films and media-related consumer practices 
that have not been considered in the ongoing research. The journal is 
looking for essays that analyze and contextualize representations that 
are not covered extensively in volumes such as Reel Food, ed. Anne 
Bower, Food, Film, and Culture, by James Keller, or Food in the Movies, 
by Steve Zimmerman and Ken Weiss. It is interested in research that 
examines food (and film) practices that surround and run parallel to the 
consumption of contemporary media.
The journal is looking for articles that: analyze the foodways 
components that film and media do and do not represent; examine 
representations of food and water resources in fiction and/or 
documentary form; shed light on product placement and/or co-promotion by 
blockbuster cinema and fast food franchises. We are interested film, 
media, and cultural studies that examine foodways and representations of 
food and drink in light of: cultural context, genre conventions, 
auteurs' preoccupations, and/or questions of race, gender, sexuality, 
and so on.
The journal is looking for material that illustrates ways that 
representations of food and food behaviors convey meaning in individual 
scenes, even when cooking, eating, and drinking are not significant 
throughout a film. We are also interested in research and analysis that 
explores foodways in films such as cannibal films, vampire films, and 
other genres or subgenres that problematize the food product.
Essays should be sent electronically to Cynthia Baron at (cbaron /at/ bgsu.edu) 
<mailto:(cbaron /at/ bgsu.edu)> by December 31, 2012.Please use MS Word and MLA 
citation. Send the essay as an attachment. Author and affiliation 
information must appear only in the email. Essays should be about 20-25 
pages.
In advance of submitting an essay, please take a look at current and 
recent issues, submission policies, and so on: 
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/theatrefilm/projector/page30082.html
If there are questions after visiting the journal, inquiries can be sent 
to Cynthia Baron (cbaron /at/ bgsu.edu) <mailto:(cbaron /at/ bgsu.edu)>

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Dr. Mark Bernard
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies
Johnson C. Smith University
100 Beatties Ford Road
Charlotte, NC 28216