[Commlist] cfp: Book collection: Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television

CALL FOR PAPERS: Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and 
Television

The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek 
Chauvin,  calls to defund the police, and the prominence in the media of 
killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of 
intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at 
interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political 
agendas.  Equally, exciting cross-disciplinary engagement between fields 
of justice studies, criminology, cultural studies and popular culture 
are increasingly opening up.

Police have been the inspiration for and focus of countless film and 
television stories, a long-standing dramatic strain that is a fictional 
backdrop to the intense recent public scrutiny, and at times rejection 
of policing. Perceptions of the police are shaped by these long standing 
narrative forms of film and television that can also convey other 
shapers of perception, from bodycam footage to mobile phone recordings.

At this point of exceptional pressure on police conduct and the 
uncertain paths that policing will take in the 21^st century, this 
collection is intended to be a topical opportunity to examine the themes 
of how police and policing are perceived and portrayed and these points 
are intended as the focal point for each contribution.

We are assembling a special collection of essays that consider 
addressing the intersection of police and policing with film and 
television in the 21^st century. Possible areas include:

Genre studies and the procedural

Representations of race

Real and fictional police

Reality television

Televising trials

Police in pornographic films

Representations of police both historical and modern

Policing in dystopias

Moral and political authority

Contributions related to the United States are especially welcomed.

*/Advice for contributors/*

This edited collection is under contract.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, we ask that 
you submit an abstract of up to 250 words explaining the focus and 
approach your proposed essay.  The proposed volume is intended to be 
scholarly and will be peer reviewed but accessible in tone and approach. 
Each final contribution should be around 6000 words.

Abstracts should be emailed to (marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au) 
<mailto:(marcus.harmes /at/ usq.edu.au)>

*Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2021*

*Full paper submission deadline: March 1, 2022*

*/About the editors/*

*Associate Professor Marcus K Harmes* has published extensively in the 
field of popular culture. His most recent publications include /Roger 
Delgado: I am usually referred to as the Master /(Fantom Publishing 
2017) and /Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation /(Rowman and 
Littlefield, 2015). He is the author of numerous studies on the church 
in modern popular culture, including book chapters in the collection 
/Doctor Who and Race/, and articles in journals including /Science 
Fiction Film and Television/, and /Journal of Religion and Popular 
Culture/. In 2018 he edited the Handbook for Springer on /Postgraduate 
Education in Higher Education/.

*Meredith A Harmes* teaches communication in the enabling programs at 
the University of Southern Queensland in Australia.    Her research 
interests include modern British and Australian politics and popular 
culture in Britain and America.   Her most recent publication in the 
/Australasian Journal of Popular Culture /was on race and cultural 
studies on American television. She holds an honours degree from the 
University of Queensland in political science and a Graduate Diploma of 
Journalism and a Masters of Public Relations from the University of 
Southern Queensland. She is co-editor of /Postgraduate Education in 
Higher Education /(Springer, 2018).//

*Dr Barbara Harmes* lectures in communication at the University of 
Southern Queensland, with a particular focus on international students. 
Her doctoral research focussed on the discursive controls built around 
sexuality in late-nineteenth-century England. Her research interests 
include cultural studies, postgraduate education and religion. She has 
published in areas including modern Australian politics, postgraduate 
education, 1960s American television and her original field of Victorian 
literature.

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