[Commlist] Call for abstracts: "At the Intersections: Screen Production Research Project"

This is to invite you to consider submitting an abstract for either of 
the two books below. If you have any queries, please contact Arezou 
Zalipour at (arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz) <mailto:(arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz)>

*Book titles:*

1. /At the Intersections: Race, Indigeneity, and Diaspora in Screen 
Production Research/

2. /At the Intersections: Ageing, Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in 
Screen Production Research/

*Editors:*A/P Arezou Zalipour and Prof Welby Ings, Auckland University 
of Technology (AUT), New Zealand

*Description and scope of the books*

What does it mean to stand at the intersections? What can this mean for 
the process of filmmaking? In the last decade, the dynamism of practice 
as/in research has been growing in diverse disciplines. The 
possibilities of filmmaking practice as/in research have created new and 
innovative ways of inquiry both within and outside of the academy. The 
process of making knowledge through filmmaking has been discussed in 
several publications. In addition, studies in creative practice as a 
mode of research have emanated from the fields of art, design, and 
performance studies. However, in screen practice as a mode of research, 
there has been no substantial study that focuses on the notions of 
‘difference’ and othering’. By extension, there is also a paucity of 
published material that offers accounts of professional screen practice, 
where creative and practical decision-making intersects with any aspects 
of ‘difference’.

These books will draw attention to the creative processes, encounters, 
relationships and thinking when such things hinge on the experiences, 
truths, memories, places, feelings, contexts and histories associated 
with difference and othering. By examining ‘difference’ in screen 
production through a range of diverse, professional and situated 
practices, the books will engage with the implications and nature of 
audio/visuality, aesthetics, storytelling, and styles, as well as 
methodologies, ethics, philosophies and research in the production process.

These publications bring screen practitioners (outside of the academy) 
and screen practitioners-researchers (inside the academy) together, to 
discuss how knowledge, both practical and theoretical, grows inside 
experience. The books embrace but go beyond representation and identity 
to deal with on-the-ground questions that screen 
practitioners/researchers ask (or could and should ask) at the 
intersections, about the nature of professional practice and experience.

*/At the Intersections: Race, Indigeneity, and Diaspora in Screen 
Production Research /*investigates instances where screen practice as a 
mode of research and/or professional practice intersects with experience 
and knowledge associated with migration, indigeneity, diaspora, race, 
ethnicity or socio-cultural diversity. The book explores the complex, 
cumulative ways in which the effects of these multiple forms intersect 
with the experiences, thoughts, and knowledge of screen practitioners 
and/or researchers, the screen texts they create, as well as the 
methodologies, philosophies, contexts and processes they encounter and 
think about.

*//*

The book draws on the thinking of screen practitioners and/or 
researchers whose research and/or creative experience is characterised 
by living between two or more cultural regimes of knowledge or who 
practice as a minority in the diverse or multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and 
multi-cultural contexts.

*/At the Intersections: Ageing, Disability, Sexuality, and Gender in 
Screen Production Research/*engages with the notion of ‘difference’ by 
focusing on the areas where screen practice as a mode of research and/or 
professional practice intersects with experience and knowledge 
associated with ageing, disability, sexuality or gender. The book 
explores methodologies, philosophies, knowledge-making and creative 
processes of screen practice when encountered and constructed at 
intersections between dominant representation and enablement, and 
minority regimes of knowledge

and lived experience.

*Submission deadlines:*

Deadline for abstracts is: 30 September, 2020.

The need for these books has been signalled by a number of leading 
publishers and we are currently in the process of negotiating contracts.

Please provide a 250-word abstract and a short bio (100 words) by the 
30th of September 2020.

Draft chapters (between 3000-7000 words) will be due in the first half 
of 2021. We encourage screen practitioners and practitioner-scholars 
(including postgraduate students) from diverse cultures, backgrounds and 
locations who engage with aspects of ‘difference’ to submit abstracts. 
Considered media may include cinematic and experimental films, 
television, web series, screenplays, mobile works and video installation.

Please send abstracts, and any questions, to (arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz) 
<mailto:(arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz)>


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