Call for Close-Up Submissions: 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 related works of cinema, literature, and/or visual culture.

Submissions may interrogate issues of race, class, and/or gender, through thematic, historical, and 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 3,000–4,000 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 April 1, 2015. Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Please see journal guidelines for more on the submission policy:

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

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