MCLC: Concentric special issue on documentary--cfp

Tue Apr 10 09:04:53 EDT 2012

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From: kevin lee (kevin at dgeneratefilms.com)
Subject: Concentric special issue on documentary--cfp
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Dear friends and colleagues, I hope you are doing well.

I am co-guest editing the March 2013 special issue of the
interdisciplinary humanities journal Concentric, which is focusing on
documentary filmmaking in the Asia Pacific region. The issue will be
edited by Kuei-fen Chiu (prominent scholar of Taiwan documentary film
studies) and myself.

We are looking for strong research essays about documentary filmmaking in
Asia (one area of focus may specifically look at SE Asia); if you can
circulate the call (attached) to colleagues and students who might have a
relevant proposal to submit, I would appreciate it a lot!

Also, here is a link to the call for papers:

http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/calls_for_papers.php

Best regards, 

Yang Chi-hui

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 39 No. 1 | March 2013

Special Issue Call for Papers
³Documenting Asia Pacific²
Guest Editors: Kuei-fen Chiu & Chi-hui Yang

Deadline for Submissions: August 15, 2012

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed journal
published two times per year by the Department of English, National Taiwan
Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. The journal is devoted to offering
innovative perspectives on literary and cultural issues and advancing the
transcultural exchange of ideas. While committed to bringing Asian-based
scholarship to the world academic community, Concentric welcomes original
contributions from diverse national and cultural backgrounds.

The March 2013 issue of Concentric is dedicated to exploring new
directions in documentary and non-fiction media-making practices in the
Asia Pacific region. Dynamic political and economic conditions,
innovations in production and distribution technologies, increased access
to international finances and the migration of moving images from theatres
to galleries to online spaces have made more relevant and critical the
practice of documentary filmmaking in Asia Pacific.

The task of representing new social realities has generated significant
movements‹both political and aesthetic‹in documentary filmmaking from
Beijing to Manila, from Jakarta to Sydney. Engaged verite,
documentary/fiction hybrids, personal essays and experimental collage are
being used to explore the consequences of globalization and
neo-liberalism, fraught family histories, religious conflict, and the role
of the state in everyday lives. What kind of formal and aesthetic
approaches are being developed to document the contemporary culture and
politics of Asia Pacific? How is the documentary itself being tested and
reshaped by these efforts? What might be revealed from a study of
localized movements, and what might comparative studies across national or
cultural boundaries yield?

Concentric invites examinations of all aspect of contemporary documentary
and non-fiction media-making in the Asia Pacific region.

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Kuei-fen Chiu is Distinguished Professor of Taiwan Literature and
Transnational Cultural Studies at National Chung Hsing University,
Taichung, Taiwan specializing in Taiwan literature and documentary film.
In addition to several books in Chinese, she has published with
international journals including The Journal of Asian Studies, The China
Quarterly, and Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. She is a
multi-time recipient of the prestigious national award for excellence in
research in Taiwan and was Honorary Fellow at the Center for Humanities
Research at Lingnan University, Hong Kong for the period 2008-2011.
Several of her articles have been translated into Japanese.

Chi-hui Yang is a film programmer, lecturer and writer based in New York.
His curated programs have been presented at MoMA Documentary Fortnight,
the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, UnionDocs, Washington DC International
Film Festival, and Seattle International Film Festival. From 2000 to 2010
he was the Director and Programmer of the San Francisco International
Asian American Film Festival, the largest showcase of its kind in the US.
He is currently a visiting scholar at NYU¹s Asian/Pacific/American
Institute.

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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Manuscript Submission Guidelines

1. Manuscripts should be submitted in English. Please send the manuscript,
an abstract of no more than 250 words with 5-8 keywords, and a brief
curriculum vitae as Word attachments to <concentric.lit at deps.ntnu.edu.tw>.
Please also attach a cover letter stating that the manuscript is not
currently being considered for publication elsewhere. Concentric will
acknowledge receipt of the submission but will not return it after review.

2. Submissions made to the journal should generally be at least 6,000
words but should not exceed 10,000 words, notes included; the bibliography
is not counted. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the latest
edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Except for
footnotes, which should be single-spaced, manuscripts must be
double-spaced throughout and typeset in 12-point Times New Roman. For
further instructions on documentation, consult our style guide.

3. To facilitate the journal¹s anonymous refereeing process, there must be
no indication of personal identity or institutional affiliation in the
manuscript proper. The author may cite his/her previous works, but only in
the third person.

4. If the paper has been published or submitted elsewhere in a language
other than English, please also submit a copy of the non-English version.
Concentric may not consider submissions already available in other
languages.

5. If the author wishes to include copyrighted images in the essay, the
author is solely responsible for obtaining permission for the images.

6. Two copies of the journal and a PDF version of the published essay will
be provided to the author(s) upon publication.

7. It is the journal¹s policy to require all authors to sign an assignment
of copyright.

For submissions or general inquiries, please contact us as follows:

Editor, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Department of English
National Taiwan Normal University
162 Heping East Road, Section 1
Taipei 106, Taiwan
Phone: +886 (0)2 77341803 <tel:%2B886%20%280%292%2077341803>
Fax: +886 (0)2 23634793 <tel:%2B886%20%280%292%2023634793>
E-mail: concentric.lit at deps.ntnu.edu.tw

For other information about the journal, please visit our website
<http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/
<http://www.concentric-literature.url.tw/>>.