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CFP: Essays on Syfy Channel Original Films H-Announce CFP: Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films Announcement published by Justin Wigard on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Type: Call for Papers Date: October 31, 2019 Location: Michigan, United States Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Film and Film History, Humanities, Literature, Popular Culture Studies Hi all, Please see the below CFP for our edited collection on SyFy Original Films, and please email if you have any questions! Take care, Justin Date: July 10th, 2019 Subject Fields: Art, Fandom, Fantasy/Science Fiction, Film/TV, Literature, Popular Culture, Visual Studies Prehistoric Monsters, Environmental Disasters, and Shark Weather: Interdisciplinary Interrogations of the SyFy Original Films Edited by Mitch Ploskonka and Justin Wigard (MSU) This collection’s goal is to devote critical attention to an understudied avenue of popular culture: Sci-Fi/SyFy Channel’s original films. Since 2002, Sci-Fi/SyFy Channel’s production company, Sci-Fi Pictures, has created over 200 original films, spawning such franchises as the Sharknado and Lavalantua series alongside cult/fan favorites like Ghost Shark, Ice Spiders, and Mongolian Death Worm. Sharknado’s release in 2013 saw unprecedented popularity for one of SyFy’s creature feature films, correlating to a meteoric rise in popularity of not just the recently-minted Sharknado franchise, but SyFy’s feature films as a whole. This book, published by McFarland & Co., seeks interdisciplinary approaches to Citation: Justin Wigard. CFP: Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films. H-Announce. 07-10-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4290124/cfp-essays-syfy-channel-original-films Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Announce understanding, contextualizing, and interrogating these SyFy films, in order to make sense of their position within popular culture. We are also interested in submissions that highlight interesting, surprising, and overlooked connections to/from the SyFy original films. The editors are seeking proposals for essays dealing with all aspects of Syfy original films. Potential topics can include but are not limited to the following: Monstrosity as it manifests within the SyFy creature films. SyFy’s “Sharknado week” and other cross-channel interactions Issues of race, gender, and sexuality in SyFy films SyFy films and transmedial properties (video games, board games, comics, “field guides,” etc.) Ecocriticism, particularly regarding environmental disaster films Audience reception, cult film status, and fandom Critical examination of SyFy film series (Sharknado, Mega Shark, Lavalantula, etc.) Historical contextualization of the SyFy films Humor, metatextuality, and/or seriousness within the SyFy films Please submit a 250-500 word abstract (with brief author bio and affiliation) by October 31, 2019 to Justin Wigard ([email protected]) and Mitch Ploskonka ([email protected]). If a proposal is accepted, essays of 5,000-6,000 words will be due (February 28, 2020). Final approval for inclusion in the book will be (April 30, 2020). Contact Info: Justin Wigard, [email protected], Michigan State University Mitch Ploskonka, [email protected], Michigan State University Contact Email: [email protected] Citation: Justin Wigard. CFP: Essays on SyFy Channel Original Films. H-Announce. 07-10-2019. https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4290124/cfp-essays-syfy-channel-original-films Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.
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