[ecrea] CFP: European Cinema in the 21st Century

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


We invite you to contribute to a monograph on /European Cinema in the 
21^st Century/ as outlined in the CFP below, which is intended for a – 
currently under-served – undergraduate and early postgraduate market. 
Abstracts and author biographies are due by the 31^st of December, while 
the full book chapters (6000 words) are expected by the end of August 
2018. We are aiming to publish this volume with Palgrave Macmillan, one 
of the leading academic publishers, which has already expressed a 
provisional interest in this monograph.  We are looking forward to 
reading your fascinating proposals.
Best wishes,
Ingrid Lewis, Assistant Lecturer in Film and Theatre Studies, Dundalk 
Institute of Technology, Ireland, author of /Women in European Holocaust 
Films/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Laura Canning, Lecturer in Film and Television, School of Film & 
Television, Falmouth University, United Kingdom.
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*Book title: /European Cinema in the 21^st Century: Discourses, 
Directions and Genres/ *
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*Book’s scope and content*
Modules of European cinema have become increasingly popular in 
university curricula, both in European countries and overseas. However, 
knowledge on the topic is often fragmented across a variety of studies, 
or centred around specific national cinemas, which can act as a 
hindrance in discerning key trends and assimilating the complexities of 
European cinema. This book articulates a way of rethinking the study of 
contemporary European cinema by placing at the centre of its efforts the 
students and their needs.
This monograph aims to provide important insights on the key features of 
European cinema in the 21^st Century highlighting its major aesthetic 
schools, traditions, national identities and transnational concerns. 
 These features are complemented by an accessible and student-friendly 
structure in which each chapter discusses significant topics, explains 
their context and provides definitions of key terms. Each chapter also 
encourages critical thinking by providing a set of reflective questions, 
and a case-study that summarises and applies the theoretical content.
Furthermore, many scholars have drawn attention to the peripheral 
position assigned to Central-Eastern filmic traditions in overall 
scholarship on European cinema. This monograph is the first of its kind 
to apply a transversalapproach to European cinema, bringing together the 
East and the West, while providing a comprehensive picture of key 
trends, movements, genres and national cinemas. Simple and effective, 
this book fills a significant gap in the scholarly literature on the 
topic and provides an invaluable tool for both lecturers and students.
*Indicative topics (we welcome additional suggestions)*
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-What is European Cinema? Defining European cinema and establishing its 
borders;
-Questions of European identity;
-Auteur cinema in Europe (proposals which focus on film workers outside 
of the writer/director axis are also welcomed);
-Commercial versus art cinema;
-Popular genres in recent European Cinema (comedy, horror etc);
-European Film Noir;
-Ecology in Nordic (and other) Cinemas;
-Migrations and Diaspora in European Cinema;
-Post-Communist film;
-Post-Yugoslav cinema;
-National versus transnational (pan-European) cinemas;
-Emerging national cinemas and movements (such as the Romanian New Wave)
-History, memory and trauma in European Film;
-New trends and directions of recent European Cinema;
-European versus Hollywood dynamics;
-European film in the context of ‘World’ cinema;**
-Questions of language, culture and identity;
-Transmedia, new media and cinema spectatorship;
-Gender and sexuality in recent European cinema;
-Centres and margins, the urban and the rural.

*Requirements*
We invite contributions for chapters of 6,000 words focusing exclusively 
on European films released in the 21^st Century. Given that we aim for 
an educational series publication, each chapter should include the 
following elements: definitions of key terms; topic development; 
recapitulative questions; a case study (an in-depth analysis of a chosen 
film that explains and applies the theoretical content of the chapter); 
and a bibliography. Please send your proposals to both these emails: 
(ingrid.lewis /at/ dkit.ie) and (laura.canning /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)
**
*Provisional timeline*
*December 31, 2017*: 300-word abstracts, 5 bibliographic sources and a 
150-word author biography due.
*August 20, 2018: *Chapters (6,000 words) following the aforementioned 
structured due. Please follow the Chicago Manual style with standard 
British spelling. No footnotes or endnotes.
*September 30, 2018: *Contributions returned to authors for revisions 
(if necessary)**
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*November 30, 2018:*Final manuscript submitted to press
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*April 30, 2019:*Publication
*Co-editors*
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*Dr Ingrid Lewis*
Assistant Lecturer in Film and Theatre Studies at**Dundalk Institute of 
Technology, Ireland
Latest monograph: /Women in European Holocaust Films: Perpetrators, 
Victims and Resisters/ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
*Dr Laura Canning*
Lecturer in Film and Television, School of Film & Television, Falmouth 
University, United Kingdom.**
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