[Frameworks] cfp: Russian and Soviet experimental and documentary films of the Global Arctic

[scot.mackenzie at utoronto.ca]

We are seeking proposals for a volume entitled Films on Ice: Arctic  
Imaginations, Landscapes, and Populations in Twentieth Century Moving  
Images. Films on Ice is the first book of its kind to analyse the  
cinemas of the Arctic from a transnational, global perspective.  
Bringing together an international array of scholars and researchers  
from the Arctic countries (Canada, the US, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden,  
Finland, Norway and Russia), we aim to trace out the key issues facing  
the study of Arctic moving images, both those made in the Global North  
and those that, for various reasons, appropriate the North to their  
own political and aesthetic ends. Much like the moving images of the  
Global North itself, our project stretches back to the beginnings of  
cinema and forward to the present day. We are centrally concerned with  
how the concept of the Arctic is imagined and how these imaginings are  
articulated through moving image production. At this time, we are  
interested in receiving proposals from scholars who have an interest  
in researching and writing on Russian and Soviet Arctic films, broadly  
defined (documentary, experimental cinema, propaganda, etc). We are in  
communication with a university press and have received quite  
enthusiastic responses to the project. If you are interested in  
contributing a chapter on a topic aligned with the above, please email  
the co-editors Scott MacKenzie (Robarts Centre, Visiting Research  
Fellow, York University, Canada, scott.mackenzie22 at gmail.com) and Anna  
W. Stenport (Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of  
Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aws at illinois.edu) by August 15, 2012, with  
a short, 100-200 words proposal. We will appreciate your broad sharing  
of this CFP with anyone you think may be interested.