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Call for Papers: Deadline Reminder Ephemeral Cinema, Invisible Media: Sound and Image at the Edge of=20 Awareness Spectator, Volume 26, No. 2 (Spring 2006) This issue of Spectator will explore media that hover at the=20 Dan Leopard" <leopard@usc.edu> Reply-To: Call for Papers: Deadline Reminder Ephemeral Cinema, Invisible Media: Sound and Image at the Edge of=20 Awareness Spectator, Volume 26, No. 2 (Spring 2006) This issue of Spectator will explore media that hover at the=20 Dan Leopard <leopard@usc.edu> Bcc: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Sender: <nettime-ann@nettime.org> Return-Path: <nettime-ann@nettime.org> Call for Papers: Deadline Reminder Ephemeral Cinema, Invisible Media: Sound and Image at the Edge of Awareness Spectator, Volume 26, No. 2 (Spring 2006) This issue of Spectator will explore media that hover at the intersection of the fleeting and the disposable. We are soliciting articles, essays, interviews, ethnographies (textual and visual), and short reviews that examine from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives trash and exploitation cinema, youth and minority media production, art film and video, ultra low budget production, ambient media and other production forms that are for the most part ignored or excluded from the ecology of mainstream and academic media discourse. In short, this issue will focus on media that are either rendered invisible by virtue of their difference from Hollywood movies and network-cable television or are momentarily seen by viewers and then for the most part forgotten. Furthermore many of these discarded cultural forms have been recently 'discovered' or rediscovered by scholars and critics and are now moving toward institutional consecration. How these media respond to this increasing legitimization and the implication this has for dominant media forms is also open for examination. Of course, there is a considerable amount of writing over the past two hundred years that has celebrated the discarded and the degraded as a shadow to that which is considered ennobled or transcendent. It has been pointed out by commentators, Foucault and Derrida most famously, that this shadow is intrinsically linked to the success of that which dominates. This discourse of shadow and light ' at issue a politics of absence and presence ' will serve as a point of departure from which to acknowledge and analyze media that are either ignored for reasons of aesthetic elitism and 'good taste' or for reasons of invisibility due to ubiquity. In addition, many of these shadow media forms have constituent groups -fans, bank managers, teenagers- that consume and produce them and these specific cultural groupings may be explored as well. Manuscripts submitted for consideration should look toward understanding why some media forms strike the eye and why some merely glance aside. Deadline for Submission: December 1, 2005 Spectator is a biannual publication of the Division of Critical Studies at the School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. Manuscripts that address the above topic are now invited for submission: Topics may include, but are not limited to, any of the following: Histories of the Ephemeral and the Invisible Ethnographies of the Ephemeral and the Invisible Cultures of Trash, Camp, Cult, and Exploitation Auteurs of the Ephemeral (Derek Jarman, Andy Warhol, Doris Wishman and many others) Trash Genres Snapshots and Memory Home Movies & Baby Pictures Comic Books and Strips (Smiling Jack, Brenda Starr, Blackhawk, Sugar and Spice, etc.) Public Screens: Bank Machines, Sports Bars, Information Kiosks Ambient Sound and Image Recycled Media Indigenous Media Community and Public Access Television Movies by Kids, Tots _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann