"Documentary Film in the Global South," Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies
Call for Papers
Deadline: 1 December 2021
Special issue: “Documentary Film in the Global South”
Journal: Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies
Christopher L. Ballengee, guest editor
This special issue of Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies seeks to illuminate theoretical and practical perspectives on the production, reception, and analysis of ethnographic and documentary film across the global south (broadly conceived). We invite scholars, critics, filmmakers, and other interested authors to submit proposals as outlined below.
While there is a substantial and growing literature on narrative films of the global south, relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to the theoretical and practical issues of making, producing, distributing, and watching documentary and ethnographic films within the region. Such work is long overdue given the increasing number of high-quality documentary and ethnographic films that continue to emerge from and about the region and its myriad diasporas. Therefore, this edited volume represents an important step toward thinking about issues relevant to the production and analysis of documentary and ethnographic film across the global south.
Topics for essays could include, but are not limited to, considerations of
- a film or group of films
- the work of a filmmaker or group of filmmakers
- film and audio/visual culture (in one place or comparatively across the region)
- the soundscape of ethnographic and/or documentary film
- the practice of filmmaking
- the social and/or cultural impact of documentary and ethnographic film
- technologies of filmmaking and distribution
- film festivals
- imperialist, postcolonial, and/or decolonial perspectives on films and filmmaking
- films and filmmaking as expressions of and resistance to structures of power and inequality
- filmic perspectives on race, class, gender, and/or sexuality
- filmic perspectives on nationalism, the nation-state, immigration, and diaspora
To be considered for inclusion in the issue, authors should send completed articles along with a brief biography to Dr. Christopher L. Ballengee at christopherballengee@gmail.com. In preparing manuscripts, please adhere to the Zanj style guide which can be found here: https://archive.org/details/zanj-style-guide-2020.
The deadline for submission is 1 December 2021.