Open Call

Contact Address: Issue4.Alphaville@gmail.com

Deadline: 6 April 2012 (abstracts); 11 May 2012 (completed articles)

For its fourth issue, which will have a publication date of winter 2012, Alphaville invites contributions that deal with film from a variety of perspectives: film as story, as art, as commodity, as experience, as educational tool, as cultural product, as archive, as media technology. The editors welcome abstracts for articles that would complement an already diverse collection.

We encourage theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of modern and contemporary cinema, encompassing such aspects as: film text, context, production, representation, distribution and reception. Cultural studies perspectives, theoretical and historical approaches, textual analysis, and audience research studies are all welcome within this open issue.

Potential contributors are invited to submit an article abstract (300 words), along with a short bibliography and an up-to-date biographical note to the editors by 6 April 2012 at: Issue4.Alphaville@gmail.com.
Please contact the editors Stefano Odorico and Aidan Power, with any queries at the above email address.
The editors' decision will follow quickly. Following acceptance, authors will be required to submit their articles by 11 May 2012. Completed articles submitted for peer review should be 5500-6000 words in length and should follow Alphaville Guidelines and House Style.

 

Sound, Voice, Music

Contact Address: Issue3.Alphaville@gmail.com

Deadline: 18 February 2012

Alphaville seeks additional articles for its in-progress third issue, devoted to sound, voice and music in cinema. The issue editors (Jessica Shine, Danijela Kulezic-Wilson and Christopher Morris) are interested in papers that examine the themes of sound, voice and music either in the context of specific films, bodies of work, directors, composers etc., or, more broadly, in relation to contemporary or historical cinematic practice, theory and aesthetics. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

- The role of music and sound in cinema
- The history of music and sound in film
- Soundscapes in film
- The role of the composer/sound designer
- Voiceover and narration
- Voice and its relation to score/sound design
- The contemporary film musical
- Popular and pre-existing music in film
- Music and gender/sexuality in cinema

Potential contributors are invited to submit a completed article by 18 February 2012. Submissions should be 5500-6000 words in length and should follow Alphaville Guidelines and House Style.