[ecrea] Call for Papers: "Conflicting Images, Contested Realities"

Call for Papers

"Conflicting Images, Contested Realities"

Frames Cinema Journal, Spring 2015



The centenary of World War I has brought into view an exceptional range 
of palimpsestic re-imaginings of this historical moment, from Joe 
Sacco's magisterial graphic panorama, The Great War, to the restoration 
and re-issue of films such as Verdun and Wooden Crosses. The multi-modal 
writings and rewritings of the memory of WWI display a remarkable range 
of cultural investments, which can be mapped along a continuum of 
contested to consensual memory. If, as Maurice Halbwachs suggests, the 
past is a social construction reflecting the present, how does this 
present reimagining of WWI confront or even contradict past 
representations? How do these conflicting images and contested realities 
redefine our perceptions of the past and present as they are negotiated 
through what Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone describe as a 
“politics of memory”?



With WWI’s ‘re-presentations’ serving as a precipitating example that 
inspires reflection on images of conflict, and, more importantly, on the 
conflicting images that have emerged in its wake, this issue of Frames 
Cinema Journal seeks related essays and proposals prompting dialogue 
about the cultural processes of meaning formation that both derive from 
and generate contested realities through audiovisual media. Here, in 
line with the ideas of Jacques Rancière, artistic practices will be 
approached as providing the ground for both dissent and for social 
consensus, a politics that is felt and articulated as an aesthetic 
experience. We thus invite critical work on the insertion of aesthetics 
into social and political debates and on how images and portrayals of 
contested realities are produced, distributed, and consumed.



Topics may include but are not limited to:



- Audiovisual representations of war, political conflicts, conflict 
zones in occupied territories

- Conflicting representations of history and the historicity of film

- Constructed media images of gender, identity and its place in society

- Conflicts within the production and distribution of media images

- Debates provoked by and expressed through social media

- Media networks and activism



For article submissions, a 250-word abstract and a brief biographical 
note should be sent by 15 January, 2015, to



Eileen Rositzka and Amber Shields (editors-in-chief)

E-mail: (framesjournal /at/ gmail.com)

Notification will follow by 31 January, 2015. Deadline for the 
submission of a final draft: 15 March, 2015. We also seek video 
contributions enquiring the proposed topics. Submissions may be sent to 
the editors in the form of a link using an online streaming source 
(Vimeo, YouTube, etc.).



About Frames

Frames Cinema Journal, based at the University of St Andrews, is an 
online biannual publication that aims to be a space for cutting edge 
research and ongoing discussions among film scholars and those 
interested in intellectual discussions about film, film history and film 
theory.

http://framescinemajournal.com/

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Amber Shields
PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Film Studies
University of St Andrews, Scotland

Department of Film Studies
University of St Andrews
99 North Street
St. Andrews, KY16 9AD
Scotland, UK

Telephone: +44 (0)7528 376137
Email: (alfs /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)

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