Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image, call for proposals

Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce the newly launched book series Experimental Film and Artists’ Moving Image. The series is edited by Kim Knowles (Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK) and Jonathan Walley (Denison University, Ohio, US). This is the first academic book series on experimental film and artists’ moving image and provides a home for cutting-edge research in this fast-growing field of study.

Existing outside the boundaries of mainstream cinema, the field of experimental film and artists’ moving image presents a radical challenge not only to the conventions of that cinema but also to the social and cultural norms it represents. In offering alternative ways of seeing and experiencing the world, it brings to the fore different visions and dissenting voices. In recent years, scholarship in this area has moved from a marginal to a more central position as it comes to bear upon critical topics such as medium specificity, ontology, the future of cinema, changes in cinematic exhibition and the complex interrelationships between moving image technology, aesthetics, discourses, and institutions. This book series stakes out exciting new directions for the study of alternative film practice – from the black box to the white cube, from film to digital, crossing continents and disciplines, and developing fresh theoretical insights and revised histories.

Although employing the terms ‘experimental film’ and ‘artists’ moving image’, we see these as interconnected practices and seek to interrogate the crossovers and spaces between different kinds of oppositional filmmaking. We invite proposals on any aspect of non-mainstream moving image practice, which may take the form of monographs, edited collections, and artists’ writings both historical and contemporary. We are interested in expanding the scope of scholarship in this area, and therefore welcome proposals with an interdisciplinary and intermedial focus, as well as studies of female and minority voices. We also particularly welcome proposals that move beyond the West, opening up space for the discussion of Latin American, African and Asian perspectives. Please visit the website for more information. To submit a proposal, please contact the series editors directly at kik2@aber.ac.uk and walleyj@denison.edu.