The Fan Studies Network

Science Fiction Film and Television seeks submissions for a special issue on “Star Trek at 50.”

Since its premiere on September 8, 1966, Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek has become shorthand for liberal optimism about the future, even as the franchise’s later entries have moved towards increasingly dark depictions of aging (ST II-VII), war (DS9), lifeboat ethics (VOY), and post-9/11 securitization (ENT). This internal tension has now culminated in the rebooted “Abramsverse” depiction that — while nominally directed towards reinvigorating the franchise by returning it to its youthful origins— has seen the Spock’s home planet of Vulcan destroyed by terrorists (ST) and the Federation itself corrupted by a coup from its black-ops intelligence wing (STID).

SFFTV invites fresh approaches to Star Trek media in the context of its amazing longevity and continued popularity, with possible emphases on:
* revivals, retcons, and reboots
* canon and canonicity
* Star Trek and/as “franchise”
* fan cultures, fan productions, and fan sequels
* Star Trek ephemera and paratexts
* lost episodes and unproduced scripts
* parody and pastiche (Galaxy Quest, Star Trek XXX, “The Wrath of Farrahkhan”)
* spinoff media like video games and comics
* Star Trek and politics
* Star Trek and science/technology/invention
* Star Trek and race
* Star Trek, sex, gender, and orientation
* Star Trek and disability
* Star Trek and aesthetics
* Star Trek and aging
* Star Trek’s influence on other works or on the culture at large
* Star Trek and other Roddenberry productions (The Questor Tapes, Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda)

Articles of 6,000-9,000 words should be formatted using MLA style and according to the submission guidelines available on our website. Submissions should be made via our online system at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com:80/lup-sfftv. Articles not selected for the special issue will be considered for future issues of SFFTV.Any question should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com), Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com), and Gerry Canavan (gerrycanavan@marquette.edu). The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2015, with anticipated publication in Star Trek’s 50th anniversary year.

Science Fiction Film and Television is a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year by Liverpool University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE), Gerry Canavan (Marquette) and Sherryl Vint (UC RIverside), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies. We invite submissions on all areas of sf film and television, from Hollywood productions to Korean or Turkish sf film, from Sci-Fi Channel productions to the origins of SF TV in Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers or The Quatermass Experiment. We encourage papers which consider neglected texts, propose innovative ways of looking at canonical texts, or explore the tensions and synergies that emerge from the interaction of genre and medium. We publish articles (6000-8000 words), book and DVD reviews (1000-2000 words) and review essays (up to 5000 words), as well as archive entries (up to 5000 words) on theorists (which introduce the work of key and emergent figures in sf studies, television studies or film studies) and texts (which describe and analyse little-known or unduly neglected films or television series).

JOY DEVOTION:
The Importance of Ian Curtis and fan culture CFP
New book to be released exclusively on Headpress
Joy Devotion: The Importance of Ian Curtis and fan culture in a 2.0 Economy will explore the lasting legacy in the fan, post-punk and dot com economy of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, and what such dedication says about the larger issues facing us in a modern world. Essays on Curtis, exploring ideas of memory, death, technology, fandom and secular religion will be complimented by photos taken at the Ian Curtis Memorial Stone every month for a year, beginning fall 2009 through 2010. Stakeholders in the Curtis legacy, from fans to artists, will also contribute their personal insights, allowing for intimate and never before allowed access to the very people who Curtis has continued to influence and inspire long past his untimely death in 1980.
We are looking for contributions in the following areas:
• The growing importance of Joy Division and Curtis since his death
• Bootlegs, bootleg culture and ideas of duplication, replication and distribution;
• On-line communities, social media and the evolution of fan connection via technology
• Joy Division tribute bands and or acts
•Ideas of Englishness as exported via Joy Division to the rest of the world
• How the images of Joy Division and Ian Curtis have played a role in memory, history and iconography
• Military and political messaging in the band’s name, ideals and legacy
• Films about and featuring Joy Division
• The non-touring band- how Joy Division became a global phenomena without international touring
•Memory, fandom and secular religion
Other ideas are welcome. Any questions or inquiries please send to jkomedia@gmail.com.
Please send a 500 word abstract of your ideas to jkomedia@gmail.com by November 1, 2014 for consideration. We will contact all interested parties by February 1, 2015, with a decision in regards to inclusion.
A full chapter will consist of 2,000-3,000 words, and will be due no later than May 1, 2015.

Fan Studies in the Classroom strives to connect the popular with the scholarly, using popular and fan cultural artifacts to engage student interest, motivate student research, and cast a new light on learning objectives. Increasingly, teachers in all disciplines incorporate fan creations, remix concepts, and media studies approaches in the classroom. These exercises range from using fan materials as examples, to having students study remix works, to asking students to rewrite canon.
Instructors from all institutions and serving varieties of student populations are invited to submit abstracts for essays about using remix/fan studies approaches in the classroom, with a focus on practice and instruction. Fan Studies in the Classroom will be an interdisciplinary, edited collection.

University of Iowa Press has expressed interest in publishing the volume. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to write a 5,000 word essay and invite a student to submit a response to the assignment described.

Abstracts of 250-500 words
Short biographical statement
Current MLA guidelines, please no endnotes.
Submit to Katherine Howell khowell@gwu.edu by December 18, 2014.