[ecrea] CFP - Edited Collection Eastsploitation: Eastern Europe and the Cinematic Lowbrow

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*/Eastsploitation: Eastern Europe and the Cinematic Lowbrow/*

Edited by Jindriska Blahova and Richard Nowell


Despite a welcome recent upsurge of academic interest in global 
exploitation cinema, the historical relationships between lowbrow cinema 
- however stakeholders might be defining it as such - and Eastern Europe 
remain at best sketchily historicized and theorized. On the one hand, 
analyses of this region's cinema have tended to prioritize critically 
applauded middlebrow fare or to elevate its genre movies by stressing 
their purported social, psychological, political dimensions or their 
aesthetic sophistication. On the other hand, consideration of 
international flows of exploitation has understandably emphasized the 
output of preeminent centers of production and circulation, especially 
those of North America, Western European, and South-East Asia. Yet, as 
essential as these contributions are - and will continue to be - it also 
needs stressing that other territories such as Eastern Europe represent 
important nodes in the global circulation of perceived lowbrow cinema, 
whether as production centers, reception cultures, or as sources of 
subject matter for filmmakers based both inside and outside of this 
region. Accordingly, /Eastsploitation/ aims to broaden understandings of 
this dynamic yet poorly understood aspect of cultural history through//a 
range of original scholarship examining the multivalent intersections of 
Eastern Europe and the cinematic lowbrow.


The editors of this proposed collection of essays therefore invite 
expressions of interest on topics including but by no means limited to:

   * Producing lowbrow fare in or with Eastern European nations
   * Lowbrow under or after Communism
   * Distributing (and marketing) lowbrow cinema in Eastern Europe
   * Lowbrow imports in Eastern Europe
   * Exhibition and delivery of lowbrow in Eastern Europe
   * Popular or critical reception of lowbrow cinema in Eastern Europe
   * Images of Eastern Europe(ans) in Eastern European-made lowbrow
   * Eastern Europe(ans) in non-East European-made lowbrow
   * Creative Personnel and Eastern European lowbrow cinema
   * International distribution/delivery of Eastern European lowbrow fare
   * Popular or critical reception of Eastern European lowbrow cinema
     internationally


The editors request that abstracts of around 200 words and a short 
academic bio be sent to (richard_nowell /at/ hotmail.com) 
<mailto:(richard_nowell /at/ hotmail.com)> and (jindriska.blahova /at/ ff.cuni.cz) 
<mailto:(jindriska.blahova /at/ ff.cuni.cz)> by 31 July 2016. Chapters of 
around 7,000 words are likely to be needed by late summer 2017. Please 
also feel free to contact either of the editors with informal enquiries 
or any questions you may have.


*Jindřiška Bláhová* is an Assistant Professor at the Film Studies 
Department of Charles University in Prague. She served as a guest editor 
of/Iluminace/:/The Journal of Film Theory, History, and Aesthetics/ on 
issues on/Banned Films in Eastern European Cinemas/, /Post-feminism/, 
and/Film Festivals/. She has published widely in her native Czech on 
Czech(oslovak) film culture and her articles on the relationships 
between distribution, reception, and politics can be seen in 
the/Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television/,/Film History/, 
and/Post Script/.


*Richard Nowell* teaches cinema at the North American Studies Department 
of Charles University in Prague. He is the author of/Blood Money: A 
History of the First Teen Slasher Film Cycle/(Continuum, 2011), the 
editor of/Merchants of Menace: The Business of Horror 
Cinema/(Bloomsbury, 2014), and has published articles on lowbrow cinema 
in a number of volumes and journals including/Cinema Journal/, 
the/Journal of Film & Video/,/Post Script,/and the/New Review of Film 
and Television Studies./

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