Precious and the Novel Push
Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue or section of a future issue devoted to a critical assessment of and about the film Precious and the Novel Push by Sapphire (upon which Precious is based) to be published in Fall 2012. The editors invite essays from various disciplines and encourage intellectual provocation and arguments that address Precious and Push, either together or separately, from a range of critical, theoretical, political, and aesthetic perspectives. Essays that pivot between and extend beyond the formal frames of both the film and the novel and that stage intertextual and comparative dialogues with related works of film, literature, visual culture, photography, or theory are especially welcome.
Please submit completed essays, a 100-word abstract, a fifty-word biography, and a CV by October 25, 2011. Submissions should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Please see journal guidelines for more on submission policy: http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/publication/blackcamera_contribute.shtml
Direct all questions, correspondence, and submissions to guest editors Suzette Spencer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Carlos Miranda (Yale University) at preciousjournalissue@gmail.com.
Afrosurrealism in Film/Video
Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue on Afrosurrealism in Film/Video to be published Fall 2013. The editor is interested in essays that unpack the historical development, material conditions, or artistic/political claims or sensibilities of black experimental cinemas, possibly drawing upon interdisciplinary methods that reference music, dance, painting, photography, and theater or collaborations between filmmakers and artists who work in such fields.
Please submit completed essays, a 100-word abstract, a fifty-word biography, and a CV by April 6, 2012. Submissions should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Please see journal guidelines for more on submission policy: http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/publication/blackcamera_contribute.shtml
Direct all questions and correspondence to guest editor Terri Francis (terri.francis@yale.edu).
