CALL FOR PAPERS FOR JOURNAL ON AFRICAN CINEMAS

The Journal A Barca, from the Postgraduate Program in Cinema and Audiovisual of the Fluminense Federal University (PPGCine UFF) has opened a call for papers for its second issue. With the theme African Cinemas in the histories and theories of cinema: aesthetics, challenges, and new scenarios, the call is open until 31 July 2023. This issue will be organized by CIAC researcher Jusciele Oliveira, in collaboration with Ana Camila Esteves (King’s College London, United Kingdom) and Morgana Gama (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil).

The journal welcomes articles discussing histories, theories, and aesthetics of cinema in its connection with African cinemas. Considering the lack of discussions on African cinematographies in the Portuguese language, we seek to start a movement to fill this gap within the academic framework, from the following approaches, but not limited to them:

Schools, theories, and periods of cinema in articulation with African cinemas; Reflections on nomenclatures: Third cinema, peripheral cinema, Cinema with accent, margin cinema, world cinema, postcolonial cinema, and intercultural cinema, among others, associated with African cinemas; history, memory, and cultural identities in African cinemas and their Afrodiasporic developments; the limits and disputes between the theory of the author, the politics of authors and African cinemas; analysis of trajectories of African filmmakers; genre cinema and documentary in the context of African cinemas; the production of films made by and about women in African cinemas; circulation, reception, and spectatoriality issues in African cinemas (shows, festivals, streaming, commercial cinema); the place of film criticism in the construction of discourses on African cinemas; transdisciplinary and interartistic dialogues in/between African and Afrodiasporic cinemas.

A Barca is a journal edited by the Postgraduate Program in Cinema and Audiovisual of the Fluminense Federal University – PPGCine UFF. The journal is published biannually in digital format and intends to disseminate theoretical or practical studies on Cinema and Audiovisual, and their interactions with other fields of knowledge and in different societies. A Barca seeks to unite the fields of film and Audiovisual studies at UFF to emerging contexts and themes and to the new symbolic, economic, ethical, aesthetic, and political dynamics of the audiovisual and media experience.

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