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>Subject: CFP: Edited Volume on Filmic Representations of Dracula
>(1/15/07; collection)
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>From: "Browning, John" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for Book Chapters:
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>Our (Un)Invited Guest(s):
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>Documenting Dracula and Global Identities in Film (Working Title)
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>Editors:
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>Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
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>Department of English
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>Florida State University
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>John Edgar Browning
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>First-Year Writing Program
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>Southern Methodist University
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>Guest Introduction: David J. Skal
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>Call for Submissions: A proposed collection on filmic
>representations of Dracula that transcend genre and identity
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>Submission Deadline: January 15, 2007
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>This collection of essays seeks to investigate and explore the
>impulse by which global communities continue to reinvent Dracula in
>film, whether in an attempt to confront oppression or repression, or
>to embody social ills and taboos. Thus, theoretical analyses of the
>transnational generation of Dracula's cinematic offspring are highly
>sought. Contributions to this collection of essays should examine
>Dracula films and the ways in which Dracula's movement across
>borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and film genre
>since the 1920s has engendered conflicting conceptualizations about
>the formation of the "other," identity, and ideology that oscillate
>between conservative and liberal spheres of normalcy. While this
>collection is concerned with the complex web of interrelationships
>between the historical, cultural, and literary counterparts that
>make up the conventional body of cinematic work from mainstream
>studios like Universal, Metro, Hammer, Columbia, AIP, equ!
> ally important is the significantly larger, yet predominantly
>under-appreciated body of cinematic work that has poured out of
>other global markets. We are searching for essays that address these
>concerns by using single-film or period-based analysis.
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>With the focus of this collection targeting Dracula and Dracula-type
>characters in films from not only the United States and England but
>from other global markets, this collection welcomes submissions that
>seek to ground Dracula depictions and experiences within a larger
>political, historical and cultural framework, seeking to identify
>how different ethnic groups represent themselves and their distinct
>movements across borders in the Dracula cinema myth. Chapters may
>focus on isolating new, developing tendencies toward transnational
>modes of cultural production, or may instead excavate and trace past
>tendencies from older depictions.
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>We seek perspectives engaged in the fields of literature, media
>studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, philosophy,
>psychology, sociology, health, medicine, criminology, and theology.
>As payment, each contributor will receive 1 copy of the completed
>book.
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>Please submit your manuscript electronically as an email attachment to:
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>John Edgar Browning
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>Adjunct Lecturer of English
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>First-year Writing Program
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>Southern Methodist University
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>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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>Dr. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
>Associate Professor of English
>Courtesy Associate Professor of Law
>Florida State University
>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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>MANUSCRIPTS should be prepared in accordance with the 15th edition
>of the Chicago Manual of Style. Double-space all manuscripts,
>including references, notes, abstracts, quotations, and tables. The
>title page should include all authors' names, affiliations, and
>highest professional degrees, the corresponding author's address and
>telephone number, and a brief biographical statement. The title page
>should be followed by an abstract of 100 to 150 words. Tables and
>references should follow CM style and be double-spaced throughout.
>Ordinarily, manuscripts will not exceed 30 pages (double-spaced),
>including tables, figures and references. Authors of accepted
>manuscripts may be asked to supply camera-ready figures.
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>Please note that submission of a manuscript implies commitment to
>publish with the essay collection. Authors submitting manuscripts
>should not simultaneously submit them to another journal, nor should
>manuscripts have been published elsewhere in substantially similar
>form or with substantially similar content. Authors in doubt about
>what constitutes prior publication may consult with the editor.
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