[ecrea] Synoptique - Open Call for Submissions

Open Call for Submissions




Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies is a 
double-blind peer-reviewed open access journal housed in the Mel 
Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University (Canada). Founded in 
2008, the journal has promoted innovative research in film and media 
studies, combining a variety of theoretical and methodological 
approaches—publishing special issues on topics as diverse as queer media 
practices, Indian cinema, moving image archives and the digital 
transition, film festival networks, queer nationalism, humour and 
feminist media theory, the aesthetics of cinema technology, and archival 
film training. This year the journal is undergoing deep changes in order 
to better reflect the most pressing research concerns and priorities 
within media studies. As the field has been recently affected by a 
profound reevaluation of its traditional paradigms, Synoptiqueintends to 
provide a platform for publication, discussion, and reflection on the 
new political-cultural formations shaping media studies discourse. In 
this respect, the journal aims to intervene in key debates within media 
studies while critically tackling the economies and politics of 
scholarly activity, addressing dominant trends in academic research 
conducted within the historical, ideological, and institutional limits 
of the neoliberal university. In addition to, and as an extension of, 
this impetus, the journal aims to showcase approaches that address the 
transnational and global dimensions of moving image media research.


We are inviting submissions that come to terms with the shifting ground 
of film and media studies discourse. As trends and key terms in the 
field come and go, and concepts are stretched to the edges of critical 
utility, we propose an intensified engagement with the politics of 
uptake and the critical value of knowledge production in our specific 
but wide-ranging field. The spatial, the archaeological, the 
infrastructural, the biopolitical, the geopolitical—such discourses both 
address key debates and political conditions as well as fall prey to a 
fashion system dictated by the "innovation" mandates of university 
research in an era of neoliberal governance. The historical conditions 
of knowledge production, and the forms in which it is performed, 
displayed, and distributed, are a key focus of film and media studies 
across its various historical and theoretical contexts. How does a 
journal contribute to these debates, move beyond instrumentality and 
trendiness, and participate in wider struggles situated on the changing 
foundations of film and media studies research?


Issue 7.2 intends to mark the new direction the journal will take in the 
future; laying the groundwork for a new research platform that will 
engage with, and intervene in, the ever-shifting topographies and 
genealogies of media studies research. To signal this shift, we have 
decided to make 7.2 an open call issue, thus moving away from our 
traditional “thematic” focus, intending to promote a wide variety of 
scholars pushing media studies research in new directions. By leaving 
the theoretical and topical boundaries somewhat “open,” the journal aims 
to bring together a set of articles that reflect the mutable concerns 
and priorities of the media studies field.




Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to:


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    Distribution/Circulation/(In)Formal Economies of Media

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    Anthropological and Ethnographic Approaches to Film and Media

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    Infrastructure and Logistics of Media

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    Political Geographies

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    Media Industries

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    Emergent Media

  *

    Digital Media

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    Queer and Feminist Approaches to Digital Culture

  *

    Decolonial Media Practices

  *

    Critical Race Studies

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    Labour and Media Industries

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    Histories and Theories of Political Cinema

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    Indigenous Media

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    Activist Media

  *

    Non-Institutional Cinemas

  *

    Technologies

  *

    Global Television

  *

    Archival Practices


Essays submitted for peer review should be approximately 5,500-7,500 
words and must conform to the Chicago author-date style (17th ed.). All 
images must be accompanied by photo credits and captions.


We also warmly invite submissions to the review section, including 
conference or exhibition reports, book reviews, film festival reports, 
and interviews related to the aforementioned topics. All non-peer review 
articles should be a maximum of 2,500 words and include a bibliography 
following Chicagoauthor-date style (17th ed.).


All submissions may be written in either French or English.


Please submit completed essays or reports to (editor.synoptique /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(editor.synoptique /at/ gmail.com)>, and editors-in-chief Giuseppe 
Fidotta ((giuseppe.fidotta /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(giuseppe.fidotta /at/ gmail.com)>) 
and Patrick Brian Smith ((patrickbriansmith /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(patrickbriansmith /at/ gmail.com)>) by February 28, 2018. We will send 
notifications of acceptance by March 15, 2018.


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