[Commlist] cfp: Decentring the Avant-garde: Landscape, Travel and the (Other’s) Gaze in Experimental Film and Video (special issue of PLL)

*/Papers on Language and Literature/**Special Issue*

*Decentring the Avant-garde: Landscape, Travel and the (Other’s) Gaze in 
Experimental Film and Video*

As experimental film practice is still the most prevalent in (yet not 
confined to) western Europe, North America and Britain, the special 
issue of /Papers on Language and Literature/ aims to highlight the work 
of filmmakers working on the margins of the avant-garde, including those 
using traditional (8 mm or 16 mm) and new (hybrid) media formats, and 
the ways they (re)address the questions of landscape, travel and the 
other’s gaze. Although certain avant-garde films, including those made 
by Vertov, Bolotowsky, Kubelka, Winkler, Lehman, Welsby, 
Snow,Fischinger, Dutta,Rashidi,Takahiko, Frampton, Brakhage and others, 
have received some attention from researchers, there exists a number of 
underrepresented works, which use landscape and travelogue forms to 
challenge the hegemonic master narratives and undermine the image of 
majority groups and interests, continuously breaking the taboos and 
censorship of the mainstream (film) culture. Likewise, this special 
issue will hopefully extend the use of some recent revisionist theories, 
which have moved beyond structuralist-formalist thinking to incorporate 
intermediality and heterogeneity (Branden), spectatorship and (gendered) 
body politics (Lambert-Beatty), corporeal turn in avant-garde film 
(Osterweil), expanded cinema practices (Sutton),materialism (Walley) or 
personal registers (Kase), to the study of landscape and travelogue 
films, many of which clearly de-center formalist strategies.

To fill this gap, the proposed special issue of /Papers on Language and 
Literature/ seeks contributions that discuss works of both renowned and 
less known experimental filmmakers, particularly those working on the 
periphery of the avant-garde film practice, which revision the 
representation of landscape and travel through the other’s gaze. We 
particularly welcome proposals, which analyze avant-garde and 
experimental films and videos in the larger international and 
comparative context that transcends a solely national perspective.


*Submission details*

Please send a paper proposal of approx 250-300 words and CV (including 
the list of publications) to the editor, Dr. Kornelia Boczkowska, at 
(kboczkowska /at/ wa.amu.edu.pl). The deadline for abstract submissions is 
December 1, 2019. Accepted contributors will be expected to submit the 
complete articles of 5,000-6,000 words (including endnotes) by March 1, 
2020.

/Papers on Language and Literature/is published quarterly at Southern 
Illinois University Edwardsville. It is indexed in Arts and Humanities 
Citation Index, Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals 
Index Online, Art Abstracts, Art Source, Humanities Abstracts, Art 
Index, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language 
Association Database, DIALNET.

Tentative timeline:

Dec 1, 2019: deadline for proposals (approx 250-300-word abstracts)

Dec 15, 2019: the editor makes selections and sends notifications which 
proposals have been accepted/rejected

Mar 1, 2020:complete articles due

May 1, 2020: comments and suggested revisions due back to authors

July 1, 2020:completed/revised articles due

Oct 1, 2020:the editor sends copy for publication


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