[Commlist] call for chapters on Diasporas in the Pacific, screen studies, screen production, screen practice

We’re delighted to invite to contribute to this timely edited 
collection. Details below:

_Call for Chapters_

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*/Screening Diasporas in the Pacific:/**/Voices, Narratives and Mobilities/*

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*Editors:*

A/Prof Arezou Zalipour and Dr Duncan Caillard

Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Aotearoa New Zealand

*Timeline/Workflow:*

Proposal Submission Deadline: September 30^th 2024

Notification of Acceptance: October 15^th 2024

Full Chapter Submission Deadline: January 31^st 2024

The history of the Pacific has been shaped by waves of human mobility 
and cultural exchange, from millenia of Micronesian, Melanesian and 
Polynesian wayfaring, to European colonisation and generations of 
migrants from Asia, Europe and the Americas. Across these communities, 
film has emerged as a powerful medium for exploring questions of 
identity, culture and belonging amidst changing socio-political 
realities. From the experiences of Samoan diasporas living in Aotearoa 
New Zealand in Albert Wendt’s /Sons for the Return Home/ (1979) and Tusi 
Tamases’s /One Thousand Ropes/ (2017), and Tongan diaspora in Vea 
Mafile'o’s /Lea Tupu'anga/Mother Tongue/ (2023) to the struggles of 
Japanese-American migration in Hawai’i across /Picture Bride /(1995) and 
/I Was A Simple Man/ (2021), stories by and about diasporic communities 
within the Pacific have played a key part in the region’s cinema. In 
recent years, Pacific-focused film festivals and international funding 
organisations have forged fresh connections across the region, 
establishing dynamic new contact points between creators, audiences, and 
the industries. These collaborations and initiatives have catalysed 
vibrant voices, narratives and mobilities in ways previously unexplored.

This edited collection will examine how diverse communities that have 
moved within and across the Pacific have used moving images to explore 
the dynamic interplay of cultures, ethnicities and communities, 
contributing to a growing body of literature on diasporic screen 
studies. Hamid Naficy’s /Home, Exile, Homeland/ (1999) brought together 
prominent theorists of cinematic migration, setting the stage for his 
seminal book /An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking/ in 
2001. Berghahn and Sternberg’s /European Cinema in Motion/ (2010) 
explored post national stories of migration in European cinema. Rondilla 
Spickard and Hippolite Wright’s /Pacific Diaspora/ (2002) explored the 
interlaced stories of migration and movement that have defined the 
region, themes explored further in Zalipour’s /Migrant and Diasporic 
Film and Filmmaking in New Zealand/ (2019), the first collection to 
focus on multi-cultural screen representations and practices in New Zealand.

/Screening Diasporas in the Pacific://Voices, Narratives and Mobilities/ 
seeks to shift static conceptions of culture and society towards one 
that prioritises motion, flux, and the hybridisation of identities, 
stories and experiences. It will bring together case studies of screen 
voices, narratives and productions shaped by transnational flows that 
transcend geographic boundaries across the Pacific.

We conceptualise the Pacific region as a site of mobility, contact and 
connection for various Indigenous Pacific Islander and diasporic 
communities together navigating their identities across multiple spaces 
through cultural production. /Screening Diasporas in the Pacific:/ 
/Voices, Narratives and Mobilities/ will offer a comprehensive 
examination of how makers and storytellers /in /and/of /the Pacific 
shape on-screen representations and are situated within global screen 
industries. We welcome studies of diverse forms of screen work and 
culture, including (but not limited to) feature film production, short 
films, television series, screen-based installations, animation, and 
film festival and audience studies.

We invite contributions from both established and emerging writers, 
scholars and practitioners.**We are currently in conversation with 
academic publishers.

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*Topics*may include but are not limited to:

·               Fiction and non-fiction screen works by and/or about any 
diasporas in the Pacific region

·               Creative practices among diasporic filmmakers

·               Collaboration within and between diasporic communities 
in the Pacific

·               Transnational partnerships and connections between and 
within the Pacific region

·               Social, cultural and political dimensions of moving 
image production in the Pacific

·               Pacific diasporas in national film industries including 
(but not limited to) Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States

·               Pacific-focused film festivals, production companies, 
screen collectives, industries and institutions

·               Studies of specific films, directors, producers, actors, 
etc.

·               Audience studies and viewership practices

*Submission Details:*

Abstracts of up to 300 words and a biography of 100 words should be 
emailed to Arezou Zalipour at (arezou.zalipour /at/ aut.ac.nz) and Duncan 
Caillard at (duncan.caillard /at/ aut.ac.nz) by *September 30^th   2024*. 
Decisions will be returned October 15^th 2024.

The chapter drafts of 4,500-7,000 words (including references) are due 
January 31^st 2025.

[CFP released on 16 Aug 2024]

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