CFP: The Motley View The Journal of Film, Art and Aesthetics ISSN 2049-4254

The Motley View seeks submissions for an upcoming special edition on the construction/representation/articulation of race and/or ethnicity in film, television, music videos and computer games. Possible topics could include:

·         The construction of Black/White/Latino/Asian etc identity in the films of a particular director or movement

·         The notion of identity as constructed by race or ethnicity itself

·         The African-American in the family Sitcom

·         Native Americans in the Western genre

·         Cultural Identity in MMORPGs

·         A critique or exploration of a particular theory of race (Negritude etc)

·         Soviet Culture in American Film

·         Constructions of Identity in particular genres (the Italian American in Gangster films etc)

The Motley View is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. For this special issue, we seek articles of approximately 3000-6,000 words. We do not wish to arbitrarily set a fixed style of referencing but we would prefer submissions to be written in the Chicago style, double spaced and in an easily eligible font (like Times Roman etc etc) with footnotes (rather than endnotes).

We are particularly interested in young/graduate/early career academics work as we would love to get your publishing career started (publish or die is a good mantra). We are also similarly interested in those outside the traditional academic routes (artists, dreamers, film-makers, hobos etc)

Any submissions should be sent to us by email in doc. (or docx.) format along with a short synopsis or introduction and three to five tags (words that epitomise the paper’s subject like film noir, genre studies, Kant or Aesthetics etc). To submit your article for consideration, or for additional questions, please contact the Journal manager Andew Duckworth at [email protected].