Deadline: March 15, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rrsc20
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema is preparing a special issue together with Kul´tura Ukrainy/Culture of Ukraine on the topic of the History of Ukrainian Cinema/Cinema and Ukrainian History, under the joint editorship of Leonid Machulin (editor of Kul´tura Ukrainy) and Jeremy Hicks (guest editor of the special issue). The issue will be published in Ukrainian in Kul´tura Ukrainy and in English in Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (under the overall editorship of Birgit Beumers) and comprise articles both from scholars writing primarily in Ukrainian and those writing in English.
Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema has long been a forum for debates over Ukrainian film history, published many articles by Ukrainian scholars, including prominent film scholar and member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Serhii Trymbach, and about Ukrainian cinema. Through the publication of this issue, the editors wish to draw attention to the distinct and rich history of Ukrainian cinema, and encourage shared reflection on it by the Ukrainian and wider scholarly communities.
Call for Papers
The editors wish to receive articles on any aspect of Ukrainian film history or depictions of Ukraine in film from any period of film history, up to and including the present. Contributions should follow the usual norms for the journal (a maximum of 8000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions, footnotes, endnotes)
Outline schedule
– Initial expressions of interest in a brief abstract (200 words, including title) by 15 March 2023 to be sent to j.g.hicks@qmul.ac.uk
– Brief 15 minutes presentations, in English or Ukrainian, at an online symposium in May 2023 (date tbc)
– Submission of finished articles by 30 August 2023
– Date of proposed publication