Django Unchained

Black Camera invites submissions for a Close-Up devoted to the film Django Unchained (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012). In shifting the visual terrain of black masculinity, Django Unchained’s break from normative representations opens the film to a wide range of critical inquiries.

The editor seeks short essays from various disciplines that engage Django Unchained from diverse critical perspectives: theoretical, sociopolitical, and aesthetic, and that examine the film’s intertextuality with other related works of cinema, literature, and/or visual culture.

Submissions may interrogate issues of race, class, and/or gender, through thematic, historical, sociocultural contexts. Other topics might include but are not limited to narrative strategies; genre studies; psychoanalytic/feminist readings; sexuality; black female bodies; masculinity; whiteness; violence; the revenge motif; fugitivity narratives; revisionist historiography; the black vernacular aesthetic tradition and signifying; classic Hollywood filmic stereotypes; the audio/visual landscape of the film; musical scoring; reception; exhibition; marketing/publicity; and distribution.

Essays, film reviews, and commentaries will be considered. Essays should be 4,000–6,000 words, commentaries 1,000–2,000, and film reviews 500–1,500 words.

Please submit completed essays, a 150-word abstract, and a 50–100 word biography by December 1, 2015. Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Please see journal guidelines for more on submission policy:

http://www.indiana.edu/~blackcam/call/#guidelines

Direct all questions, correspondence, and submissions to guest editor Joi Carr (joi.carr@pepperdine.edu).