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> From: Alison Trope <trope@scf-fs.usc.edu>
>
> *************************CALL FOR PAPERS*****************************
> **DEADLINE FOR SPRING 1998 SPECTATOR HAS BEEN EXTENDED**
>
> Please submit a 250-500 word proposal no later than **February 1** to
> Alison Trope (trope@scf.usc.edu).
>
> SPECTATOR is a bi-annual journal of film and television criticism
> published by the University of Southern California. We are currently
> seeking
> manuscripts for a special topic issue:
>
> SIZE MATTERS: The Film Screen in Public and Private Exhibition
>
> While revisionist writing on film exhibition has significantly
> incorporated an industrial economic paradigm, these studies do not
> always account for the wider context of film exhibition that exists
> outside
> the average commercial theater. With new developments in cultural
> studies
> and reception theory as well as current theories on popular
> geographies,
> virtual spaces and new technologies, the scope of exhibition studies
> can be reconfigured along original and more comprehensive lines.
> This issue
> will re-examine the history as well as the future of exhibition
> within two
> distinct, yet interrelated spaces: the public and the private (or
> domestic) exhibition sphere.
>
> Possible essay topics include:
>
> Public Exhibition Spaces: * the drive-in * big screen and
> technological experimentation * the revival, repertory house * the
> film society * the film festival * museum or archive exhibition *
> avant-garde, political activist exhibition and independent outlets *
> the sports venue, the concert venue * the theme park, public fair,
> expo
> * pedagogical and propaganda films
>
> Private Exhibition Spaces: * home theater systems * home movies,
> home video * film on cable TV * film on publicTV * film on
> network
> TV * film on CD ROM, DVD, etc. * film on the Internet
>
> For further inquiries, contact Alison Trope by email:
> trope@scf.usc.edu.
>
>
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