Critical Interventions: Special Issue on African Film, Spring 2011

International Start Sun 28-02-2010 End Fri 31-12-2010

Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art and History invites contributions for a special issue on African Film to be published in Spring 2011.

We are interested in receiving proposals for substantial articles on all areas of African Film but particularly papers that focus on an interpretation of African film as a vital component of visual culture.

Topics could range from a broader discussion of African film to papers that focus on individual filmmakers or films.

Possible topics could include:

Shaping African Aesthetics and film styles
Architectures of African film
New directions in African cinemas
New media and visual cultures
Nollywood in Global Cinema Discourses
Pioneers and significant figures in African film
Black Cinema (African American and African Diaspora Initiatives)
Transnational African cinemas
Gender and African cinema
Transcontinental flows between African, Arab, and Latin American filmmakers

We invite proposals to be submitted by February 30, 2010. The deadline for the final version of the paper is July 31, 2010.

Articles should be based on original research, which has not been published before. Proposal should be no more than 400 words. Articles may be up to 10,000 words inclusive of the bibliography and contain up to ten images. All rights for reproduction of images must be cleared in advance and submitted along with the article.

Critical Interventions is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a forum for advanced research and writing on global African arts that investigates African and African Diaspora identities in the age of globalization.

As an arena for rethinking African art history and interrogating the value of African art/cultural knowledge in the global economy and how that knowledge is transmitted, Critical Interventions is particularly interested in dissecting how such value is created, and the politics of the commodification of African artworks and of their reception.

The journal inaugurates a formal discourse on the aesthetics, politics and economics of African cultural patrimony as it affects African ownership of the intellectual property rights of its indigenous systems of knowledge and cultural practices.

Proposals of no more than 400 words should be sent to:

Victoria Pasley, Guest Editor (victoriapasley@clayton.edu)
Associate Professor of History
Dept. of Humanities
Clayton State University

Also see the Critical Interventions website for the current issue.

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