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@ VII DOCSBARCELONA 2004.
ABIERTO EL PLAZO DE INSCRIPCI N PARA ENVIAR PROYECTOS DOCUMENTALES.
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 1 OUT 2004

La septima edicion de DocsBarcelona, el encuentro internacional de
profesionales del documental, se llevara a cabo en la ciudad de
Terrassa del 4 al 6 de noviembre de 2004.

Como cada ano, el programa incluye sesiones de pitching,
proyecciones, conferencias y diversas actividades que favorecen el
networking entre profesionales. Las conferencias y proyecciones del
VIIo DocsBarcelona se centraran en el tema de la musica y los
documentales.

En las sesiones de pitching, los proyectos documentales seleccionados
se presentaran ante un importante panel de televisiones nacionales e
internacionales. Docsbarcelona da la oportunidad a los productores
independientes de presentar sus proyectos internacionalmente y de
crear vinculos profesionales para futuras colaboraciones.

La fecha limite para enviar proyectos documentales para participar en
las sesiones de pitching es el 1o de octubre de 2004.

De entre todas las propuestas recibidas, EDN (European Documentary
Network) seleccionara los 24 proyectos que seran presentados en las
sesiones de pitching.

A diferencia de otros mercados, Docsbarcelona no exige que los
proyectos documentales presentados cuenten con un minimo de
financiacion asegurado.

El encuentro esta organizado por la compania Parallel 40 y la
Asociacion de Documentalista Europeos (EDN) y cuenta con el apoyo del
Programa MEDIA de la Union Europea, de la Sociedad Municipal de
Comunicacion de Terrassa a traves del proyecto Terrassa Ciutat
Audiovisual, del Instituto Catalan de las Industrias Culturales
(ICIC) y de la Diputacion de Barcelona, entre otras instituciones.

El proceso de inscripcion se gestiona a traves de la
web (<http://www.docsbarcelona.com/>
Mas informacion: info@... o (34) 93 453 00 25


@ ARTISTS RESIDENCY, SEMINAR. (BUDAPEST, HUNGARY)
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 15 OUT 2004

Dates: DECEMBER 26, 2004 - JANUARY 6, 2005

Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.A (HMC), non-profit organization,
invites 30 interested visual artists and writers to submit
application for its residency programs in
BUDAPEST, Hungary. Its principal focus is an international residency
program to which artists from around the world are invited. The goal
is to provide a supportive community with uninterrupted time to work.
Exhibition and Artistis Talk will be arranged at the residencyis
Gallery (exhibit opening on January 4th). Its task is to maintain a
space for creation, discussion and debate.

Applications should consist of:
- 5 SLIDES, labeled slides. Slides of accepted work will be
retained for permanent file /
writers 5 page writing /
- Project Description and/or artist's statement
- One-page resume
- Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) for return of slides.
- $35 application fee.

Purpose:
HMC providing access to studio facility for professional artists,
exhibition and panel discussions.

October 15/04: Last day to receive entry form, slides, fee and SASE.
October 22/04: Accepted/Rejected notification cards mailed.
Eligibility: Open to all professional artists, writers, painters,
photographers...

Request entry form on email: bszechy@...
Request entry form on mail (SASE): HMC P.O.Box 141374, DALLAS, TX 75214
Request entry form on web:
www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

For more info and application form please contact us.


@ DOCUCLUB Call For Entries
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prazo/plazo/deadline: N/C

DOCUCLUB SEEKS SUBMISSIONS. Do you have a documentary rough-cut and
need constructive feedback? Submit to DocuClub's Fall In-the-Works
programs in NYC.

Visit http://www.docuclub.org for info.

@ PROGRAMA DE RESIDENCIAS DE LA AKADEMIE SCHLOSS SOLITUDE 2005-2007, ALEMANIA
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 31 OUT 2004

La Akademie Schloss Solitude es punto de encuentro de artistas de
varios continentes, y fue fundada en 1990 con el fin de promover el
arte interdisciplinario en el ambito internacional y generar
reflexion teorica, produccion artistica y divulgacion de nuevas
obras. La academia, con sede en Stuttgart, ofrece residencias de
entre 6 y 12 meses a artistas jovenes en las areas de arquitectura,
musica/sonido, artes visuales, video/cine/nuevos medios, artes
escenicas, diseno y literatura. El plazo limite para aplicar es el
domingo 31 de octubre. Para recibir los formularios de aplicacion se
debe enviar una carta a: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Solitude 3, 70197
Stuttgart, o un email a: mail@... o descargarlos del
sitio de Internet: <http://www.akademie-solitude.de/>

@ CONVOCATORIA AL TALENT CAMPUS, DEL FESTIVAL DE BERL N
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 1 NOV 2004

La tercera edicion del Talent Campus, prestigiosa seccion del
Festival de Berlin volvera a ser un punto de encuentro para jovenes
promesas del cine en todo el mundo. Del 12 al 17 de febrero del
proximo ano se desarrollara, en el marco de la famosa Berlinale, por
tercer ano consecutivo, esta seccion del Talent
Campus, que propicia el encuentro entre productores, directores,
guionistas, editores, camarografos, actores y el resto de
profesionales que intervienen en el proceso de produccion de una
pelicula, y ofrece la posibilidad de que jovenes talentos compartan
esos dias con colegas consagrados.

Los participantes tienen que enviar, antes del 1 de noviembre, un
minuto de su trabajo filmico (aproximadamente) a la siguiente
direccion: International Filmfestspiele Berlin, Berlinale Talent
Campus, Ptsdamer StraBe 5, 10785 Berlin (Germany), e-mail:
info@.... A los participantes extranjeros
seleccionados se les pagara los gastos de manutencion y parte de los
costos de viaje.

Dirigida tambien a jovenes cineastas, se convoca un Concurso de
Cortometrajes sobre Futbol. Los interesados deberan enviar un corto
de una duracion maxima de cinco minutos, en formato Mini-DV o DV-CAM
en donde muestren la pasion del futbol, la gente que lo vive y la
cultura que genera. Esta convocatoria se cierra el 15 de septiembre y
los artistas seleccionados seran invitados, en febrero del 2005, al
mencionado Berlinale Talent Campus y, en verano del 2006, a la Copa
del Mundo de Futbol FIFA que se llevara a cabo en Alemania.

@ CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF "FILM & HISTORY: AN
INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF FILM AND TV STUDIES"
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 1 MAR 2005

www.filmandhistory.org

Film and Sport

The interdisciplinary journal Film & History seeks submissions for a
special issue focused on discussions of sport in film and television.
The topic will be approached broadly, with submissions sought on
American and international sport featured in both documentaries and
feature films. Sport scholars who have been engaged in filmmaking or
worked with filmmakers are invited to share their insights. In
addition, papers discussing how sport in film may be incorporated
into the classroom are encouraged. Both film and sport offer
insights into culture and history, and in combining these topics this
edition should make for some exciting reading and scholarship.
Film & History has been published since the establishment of the
Historians Film Committee by John E. O Conner and Martin A. Jackson
in 1970. This affiliated committee of the American Historical
Association encourages the use of film sources in teaching and
research through the publication of this journal and related
scholarly activities. Peter
Rollins of Oklahoma State University has edited the journal since 1994.
(All authors must be subscribers at the time of acceptance for
publication if they are not so previous to that time.) More
information on this semi-annual journal and its related activities
can be found at the website, www.filmandhistory.org.
Questions about this special issue may be directed to the Sport on
Film special issue editor Ron Briley (rbriley@...) or to
the General Editor, Peter Rollins, (RollinsPC@...). Deadline for
submissions is March 1, 2005. Please format manuscripts in Chicago
Manual of Style with endnotes or MLA format with Works Cited and
submit to:
Ron Briley
Assistant Headmaster
Sandia Preparatory School
532 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87113
505-344-1671 (office)
505-266-5376 ((home)
505- 345-2336 (fax)

@ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Celebrity Culture
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 1 OUT 2004

Su Holmes and Sean Redmond

Proposals are sought for a new edited collection on the topic of celebrity.

Celebrity Culture will represent a significant intervention in the
field on a number of different levels. Essentially, what we are
proposing here is a book which brings together approaches to stardom
and celebrity which range across historical periods, media forms and
national contexts - as well as disciplinary borders and modes of
enquiry (film, television, music, sport, Internet, print media). The
book aims to bring together a broad range of essays which address the
contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today?s fame
culture.

Proposals can be historical or contemporary and may explore (but are
not limited to) the following areas:

Discussions of star/ celebrity theory (critique/ revisitation/
development)
Analyses of historical shifts in fame
The impact of ?new? media technologies on celebrity
construction / consumption (digital technologies, internet,
cyberspace)
Celebrity journalism/ magazines
Celebrity and Reality TV
Celebrity fandom/ fan cultures / subcultures
Celebrity and issues of gender/ sexuality/ ethnicity/ class /
national identity
Celebrity ?branding? / promotion
Celebrity and politics/ politicians


Addressed to susan.holmes@..., sean.Redmond@...,
proposals should be approximately 300-400 words, and include a brief
biographical note and contact details. Deadline October1st 2004.

Su Holmes is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at
Southampton Institute, UK. She is the co-editor of Understanding
Reality TV (Routledge, 2004) and author of British Television and
Film Culture in the 1950s:
Coming to a TV Near You! (Intellect, 2005).

Sean Redmond is Principal Lecturer at Southampton Institute, UK. He
is the co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood
Transgressor (Wallflower, 2003), editor of Liquid Metal: the Science
Fiction Film Reader
(Wallflower, 2004), and author of Studying Chunking Express (Auteur
Press, 2004).

Note: Below is the Table of Contents for the next issue of _Film & History_.
This issue and the one planned for September both focus on Latin
America. They are both edited by Professors Scott L. Baugh and
Michael K. Schoenecke of Texas Tech University. Avoid ordering a
"back issue" and subscribe at this time at the web site.
--Peter C. Rollins, Editor-in-Chief. www.filmandhistory.org has
many options, to include PAYPAL.

@ CALL FOR PAPERS: SOCIAL TEXT
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 30 SEP 2004

The Social Text Collective is pleased to accept papers for a
forthcoming special dossier on the work of Edward Said.

Deadline: September 30, 2004

The editors of Social Text invite contributors to pay tribute to
Edward Said, an admired colleague and friend. In its first issue
Social Text published Edward Saidis essay, iZionism from the
Standpoint of Its Victimsi (1979), a chapter in the then forthcoming
book, The Question of
Palestine, and, almost a decade later, the journal dedicated a
special issue to iColonial Discourse,i featuring an interview with
Said, along with essays dialoguing with his work.

As a way of remembering Edward Said, Social Text announces a special
issue edited by Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat. This issue hopes to
reflect on themes central to Saidis work, highlighting his
interventions in the politics of knowledge, and his impact on a
number of fields. In the spirit of Saidis writings, we invite
contributions that cross geographical and disciplinary boundaries,
while also reflecting on his life and work in relation to the major
transformations, shifts and contradictions in our intellectual and
political landscape.

Papers should be submitted by e-mail if possible, as an attachment
saved in Microsoft Word. The text should be double-spaced, no more
than 8,000 words, with numbered endnotes. For style, please follow
the Chicago
Manual of Style, 15th edition. The authoris name, affiliation,
address and telephone number should be listed on the front page of
each copy.
For further information, please contact the managing editor at
misharon@.... Hard copies may be sent to:

Managing Editor
Social Text
8 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901


@ CALL FOR PAPERS: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES JOURNAL: SPECIAL ISSUE: DIGITAL CULTURE
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 30 OUT 2004

Postcolonial studies is heavily affected by processes of
globalisation. Among these trends is the spread of networked
computing and digital culture, from email and websites, from Usenet
to massively multiple online games and digital art, from net news
journals to blogs. Digital culture also affects the world labour
market as workers around the globe are recruited into high technology
jobs as diverse as assembly line production of computers, homeworked
programming of software and call centres where workers are taught the
rudiments of foreign (mostly American) cultures to enable telephone
support for products and services. New media, in short, are now
global. This special issue inquires into the consequences of such
phenomena for the postcolonial condition.

Postcolonial Studies,
pcs@...
Final submissions will be due by 30 October 2004

@ INFORMACOES PR TICAS PARA ESTRANGEIROS
QUE V M FILMAR NO BRASIL
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O primeiro passo a ser tomado pela equipe estrangeira que deseja
filmar no Brasil e fazer uma parceria com uma empresa produtora
brasileira que tenha registro na ANCINE para realizar obras
audiovisuais (veja lista em anexo). E esta a empresa que ira
resolver, diretamente com a Agencia, todas as questoes referentes a
autorizacao para a filmagem.

Em seguida, a empresa produtora brasileira responsavel pela producao
deve enviar um fax a ANCINE solicitando a autorizacao da filmagem com
os dados abaixo. Este pedido deve ser assinado pelo representante
legal da empresa (e obrigatorio o envio pelo correio da solicitacao
original):

1. Nome e endereco da empresa brasileira;
2. Nome e endereco da empresa estrangeira;
3. Nome, numero do passaporte e funcao dos tecnicos estrangeiros;
4. Nome e numero de DRT dos tecnicos brasileiros contratados ;
5. Titulo da obra audiovisual;
6. Tema da obra a ser filmada (no caso de obra publicitaria,
deve constar o produto, o cliente e a agencia de propaganda que
encomendou a obra);
7. Periodo em que sera realizada a filmagem;
8. Local onde sera feita a filmagem;
9. Indicar o posto brasileiro no exterior ao qual a ANCINE
devera encaminhar sua concordancia com a vinda dos estrangeiros que
participarao na filmagem.

Em anexo devem constar os seguintes documentos (estes documentos
deverao ser enviados junto com a solicitacao pelo correio):

1. Copia do contrato de prestacao de servicos entre a empresa
estrangeira e a empresa brasileira;
2. Copia dos passaportes dos tecnicos estrangeiros;
3. Copia dos contratos de prestacao de servico s dos tecnicos
brasileiros ou copia da carteira de trabalho, caso o tecnico seja
contratado da empresa brasileira;
4. Pequena sinopse da obra audiovisual;
5. Quando for o caso, relacao do equipamento que vira do exterior.

Se a empresa brasileira contratada possuir em seu quadro
profissionais registrados na funcao de tecnicos cinematograficos,
este registro, anexado a copia da carteira de trabalho assinada,
substitui o contrato de trabalho.

A empresa brasileira tambem devera informar, na solicitacao da
autorizacao para a filmagem, o contato do Consulado ou Embaixada do
Brasil no pais de origem da equipe estrangeira, com o nome do Consul
ou Embaixador e os seus numeros de telefone e fax.

OBS: Deve-se prestar atencao ao numero de tecnicos brasileiros
contratados para a filmagem. Para cada tres estrangeiros que venham
ao Brasil, um tecnico brasileiro deve ser contratado. O socio
responsavel da empresa e considerado como um dos tecnicos brasileiros
contratados.

Apos o recebimento da solicitacao da empresa produtora brasileira e a
conferencia da documentacao, a ANCINE encaminha ao Consulado
Brasileiro onde a equipe estrangeira fez o pedido de visto
temporario, um fax autorizando a filmagem.

E enviada tambem, via fax, uma copia da autorizacao para a produtora
brasileira solicitante.

FONTE: lista Informe ABC

@ CALL FOR PAPERS "A SCREEN OF ONE'S OWN: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON
WOMEN'S TV AUTHORSHIP". SPECTATOR, SPRING 2005
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 20 NOV 2004


Within the last few years, feminist scholars have begun to re-train
their eyes on the question of the kinds of roles women have been and
continue to be permitted to play in the production of television. In
many respects, this trend in "recuperative" history echoes a similar
project within the arena of feminist film studies and represents a
shift
away from the strict textual concerns of earlier efforts in feminist
television criticism toward a focus on women's varying abilities to
participate in the shaping of television. That is, in addition to
chronicling the kinds or numbers of images of women that were allowed
to circulate on television at various moments, such work endeavors to
explain the qualities of the influence women have historically been
able to exert on TV texts.

As in most areas of feminist scholarship, such inquiries present
difficult practical and epistemological questions. That is, given
the institutional and societal structures that have often put women
at a disadvantage in the realm of production, what sort of knowledge
gets to count as "evidence" of female authorship? Is there any place
in the field for a consideration of the "absence" of evidence?
Moreover, given the critiques of authorship as a concept over the
past few decades, what is at stake in insisting on the existence of
female TV authors at all?
What "new" light might feminist theory be able to shed on past and
present TV texts? And finally, what possibilities do such efforts
offer in terms of advancing the project of feminist TV criticism?

The Spring 2005 issue of Spectator seeks articles, interviews and
reviews that engage with the questions surrounding women's TV
authorship in the following areas:

* The relationship between TV authorship and star status
* "Unconventional" notions of TV authorship
* Female TV directors, writers and producers-past and present
* Local/national/global media
*TV animation
*TV Music
* The intersection between feminist theory and "popular" notions of feminism
* "Alternative" exhibition spaces, such as public access, public
television, the internet, or cable/satellite channels
* Critiques of television authorship
* Traditional "women's genres"
* Female network executives
* Production history
* TV historiography

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to:

Heather Osborne-Thompson
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
Lucas Building, Room 405
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Attn: Spectator Submission
hosborne@...

One hard copy of manuscript should be submitted as well as a copy on
disk. Submissions can also be emailed directly. Manuscripts should
include the title of the contribution and the name(s) of authors, as
well as the postal address, email address, and phone numbers for the
author who will work with the editor on any revisions. All pages
should be numbered consecutively. Contributions should be no more
than 5,000 words. They should also include a brief abstract for
publicity and authors should include a brief biography of themselves.
Rejected manuscripts will not be returned.

Articles submitted to the Spectator should not be under consideration
by any other journal.

Book reviews may vary in length from 300 to 1,000 words. Please
include the title of the book, retail price and ISBN at the beginning
of the review.

Forum or Additional Section contributions can include works on new
archival or research facilities or methods as well as other relevant
works related to the field.

Electronic Submissions and Formatting. Authors should send copies of
their work via email as electronic attachments. Please keep backup
files of all disks. Files should be Microsoft Word in PC format.
Endnotes should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.

Upon acceptance, a format guideline will be forwarded to all
contributors as to image and text requirements.

Current Board for Spectator
Founding Editor: Marsha Kinder
Managing Editor: William Whittington
Issue Editor: Heather Osborne-Thompson

Subscription Information
Spectator is a bi-annual publication. Individual issues cost $10.00.
Institutional rate for US and Canada is $30.00 USD. All others $40.00
USD. Please contact the subscription editor for bulk discounts. To
order a subscription, please send $15.00* for the current volume year
to:

University of Southern California
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
Lucas Building, Room 405
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Attn: Spectator Subscription
Tel: (213) 740-3334
Fax: (213) 740-9471

*If you subscribe now, you will receive one back issue free (based on
availability). For additional back issues, contact subscription
manager and include $12.00 per issue.

@ CFP: QUEER YOUTH CULTURES
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 1 NOV 2004

Editors

Susan Driver
Contemporary Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University
sdriver@...

Mocha Jean Herrup
Radio-Television-Film
Austin Community College
herrup@...

We are inviting submissions for an interdisciplinary collection on
queer youth cultures. From the everyday worlds of queer youth
self-representation and community involvement to spectacular displays
of performative
transgression, we are interested in essays that engage with the rich
textures of contemporary queer youth cultural formations. We are
gathering together essays that explore a broad range of queer youth
cultural issues
through multiple theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Overview

Academic discourses have historically worked to exclude gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth from their
researchpractices and theoretical frameworks. This has resulted in
a predominance of heteronormative ways of understanding youth
experiences and creative cultural activities. It has also worked to
reinforce a gap between academic knowledges and the complex worlds of
youth who challenge and exceed binarysex/gender/sexual
categorizations. Our aim is to expand critical thinking
about youth cultures by compiling essays attuned to the specific
contexts, communities and subjectivities of queer youth. Over the
last decade a broad range of queer youth cultures have emerged to
transform relations of production and reception, as well as expanding
public spaces and textual forms through which youth make meaning for
themselves. At this historical moment it becomes important to
develop tools to recognize and engage queer youth cultures in ways
that are respectful and supportive, and that remain open to and
enabling of emerging social articulations. Our goal is to challenge
generalizing images of youth through representations and analysis of
queer youth cultures that utilize detailed textual and ethnographic
methods. Reflexive forms of writing are also encouraged as a way to
question and bridge relations between youth and researchers. Creative
visual artwork, comics and photography will also be considered as an
important element to enhance the field of queer youth cultural
representation. We are especially looking for new theoretical and
methodological approaches to studying youth that enable innovative
practices of interpretation.


Topics
We are interested in papers which deal especially (but
not exclusively) with the following topics:

-grrrl bands
-transgender youth
-online identities and networks
-community/festival organizing
-theorizing queer youth cultures
-youth produced video
-film and television representations
-grassroots activism
-performance cultures such as drag kings, burlesque and spoken word
-practices of self-representation
-alternative sexual cultures
-creative fictions by/for/about queer youth
-queer youth visual cultures

Submission Guidelines

Please send a 500 word abstract by November 1, 2004. Send your
submission as an email attachment in word along with a brief C.V. or
bio to both editors: sdriver@... and herrup@.... Please
feel free to contact us for further information.

@ LEA SPECIAL ISSUE CFP: GEOGRAPHY OF PAIN
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 15 OUT 2004

Guest Editors: Tom Ettinger and Diane Gromala (pain@...)
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/LEA/LEA2004/authors.htm#pain

As part of Leonardo s ongoing Art and Biology project, the Leonardo
Electronic Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is seeking short texts (with
imagery and project URLs) by artists and scientists, or
artist/scientist teams, whose work addresses pain in all its forms.
Projects of interest include aesthetic works that address subjective
experiences, social conditions, and cultural constructions of pain.
Projects on the art of healing are of interest as well, especially
multidisciplinary approaches that integrate Eastern and Western
traditions. We will also consider current health science, computer
science, and engineering research relevant to these topics.

LEA encourages international artists / academics / researchers /
students to submit their proposals for consideration. We particularly
encourage authors outside North America and Europe to send proposals
for articles/gallery/artists statements.

This LEA Special is part of a new collaborative initiative on pain
management, founded by:
* Tom Ettinger, Yale University, and interim Executive Director, Art
& Science Collaborations, Inc. (http://www.asci.org)
* Diane Gromala, Georgia Institute of Technology
(http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~gromala)
* Julian Gresser, Chairman, Alliances for Discovery
(http://www.breakthroughdiscoveries.org)
* Roger Malina, Chairman and Editor, Leonardo
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/Leonardo)

Interested authors should send:

- A brief description of proposed text (100 300 words)
- A brief author biography
- Any related URLs
- Contact details

In the subject heading of the email message, please use Name of
Artist/Project Title: LEA Pain Management Date Submitted . Please
cut and paste all text into body of email (without attachments).

Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2004

Please send proposals or queries to:
Tom Ettinger and Diane Gromala
pain@...

and

Nisar Keshvani
LEA Editor-in-Chief
lea@...
http://lea.mit.edu

@ Call for Papers: "Get a Life!"?: Fan Cultures and Contemporary Television
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prazo/plazo/deadline: 21 NOV 2004

Spectator, Fall 2005, vol. 25 n. 2

Theme Description:

This issue of the Spectator will focus on the increasingly prominent
area of television fan cultures, looking specifically to extend the
range and types of analyses of behaviors labeled "fannish." In
addition to looking at fan culture as an active, vital, and
productive force (as opposed to the often noted pathologized notion
of fans as obsessed couch potatoes), this issue will bring together
essays that investigate such questions as the legal status of fan
production, the potential impact that fans can have on the
"canonical" texts they engage with; the impact
that changing technologies have had on the development of fan culture
and communities; the way fan activity troubles basic divisions
between producer/consumer, author/viewer (or reader) or
active/passive participant; and the complex and often contentious
relationship between fans and academics.

Essays may come from a variety of perspectives and focus on
television fan cultures in any country or region.

Deadline for Submission (November 21, 2004)

Spectator is a biannual publication and submissions that address the
above theme are now invited for submission:

Topics may include:

-- investigations of interactions (actual or potential) between
show producers and fans
--the relationship between fans and academics
--analyses of questions of authorship and control of texts
--legal issues in fan production, including (but not limited to
copyright issues, censorship, and pornography)
--analyses of specific types of fan behavior (convention culture, fan
writing/art, collecting, body modification, etc.)
--issues related to specific television fandoms (including well known
ones such as Buffy/Angel, Smallville, Star Trek, Starsky & Hutch, or
smaller, less well known fandoms)
-- investigations of historical precedents for various fan activities
--community and identity building in fandom
--questions of resistance and appropriation in fan activity and
producer response
--analyses of the impact of technological developments on fan
production and distribution
--the rhetoric of media interactivity and its relation to fandom

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent by
(November 21, 2004) to:

Lauri Mullens
School of Cinema-Television
Division of Critical Studies
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Attn. Spectator Submission

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