Appel à com : "African Theatre: Media and Performance"

[Madeleine L.]

Call for Papers. African Theatre 10: Media and Performance

African Theatre, an international annual journal, is seeking articles, reviews or reports for AT10. These should be in the field of performance and media. The editors interpret this topic in a broad sense. It could thus cover drama and performance embedded in the media, such as radio drama, TV drama/performance, documentaries, Reality TV, or cinema and video drama/ performance. Alternatively it could involve the incorporation of mixed media techniques (such as slides, video clips or “canned” music) into “live” performance. The editors would be particularly interested in the use of New Media, such as cell-phone technology or the internet (e.g. through UTube, performance clips in blogs or group emails, or drama downloads to cell-phones). Photographs are very welcome.
Articles may cover:
1) Aesthetic issues such as adaptations of literature or stage theatre/performance to media, issues of camera work, form, musical sound-tracks, animation, special effects, editing, characterization (stars!), mixed media, computerized choreography, intertextuality, genre, indigenizing African critical terminology/categories;
2) Production issues, such as the economics of production (sponsorship, private versus public versus NGO funding), gate-keeping/censorship/regulation, piracy, trade-offs between production values and cost-effectiveness/popularity, mapping production processes;
3) Reception issues, such as media effects, audiences (formal & informal), audience surveys and monitoring, mass and niche audiences, fans and sub-cultures, fanzines, internet fan chat-rooms & blogs, on-line community audiences, criticism (formal & informal), moral panics;
4) Theoretical/thematic issues, such as representation (gender, ethnicity, class, nationhood, religion, xenophobia, homophobia), globalization/glocalisation, Dissonance and cognitive theories, hybridity v authenticity, “Uses and Gratification” v Media Imperialism, African Performance Media histories.


Deadline for Abstracts: 15th May 2010
Deadline for Papers: 31st August 2010
Maximum number of words: 5000
Initially proposals for articles should be sent to Professor David Kerr (Guest Editor for AT10) at both addresses below:
kerrdavid42@yahoo.co.uk
kerr@mopipi.ub.bw