Teaching Media Archives
We welcome submissions from all graduate students and faculty or independent scholars
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Synoptique is soliciting proposals for book reviews for our upcoming issue 11.1, which is a special issue with the topic "Teaching Media Archives." We invite reviewers to propose reviews for both the themed and general review sections. If you are interested in writing a review for this issue, please contact book.reviews@synoptique.ca with a short proposal (maximum 250 words) outlining the title, author, and publication information for your proposed book as well as your qualifications for reviewing it.
We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for the following books:
Accidental Archivism: Shaping Cinema’s Futures with Remnants of the Past, edited by Vinzenz Hediger and Stefanie Shulte Strathaus. Meson Press, 2023. Online.
Archival Film Curatorship: Early and Silent Cinema from Analog to Digital, by Grazia Ingravalle. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 240 pages.
Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution, by Eleanor Patterson. University of Illinois Press, 2024. 208 pages.
Le cinéma dans l’oeil du collectionneur, edited by André Habib, Louis Pelletier, and Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan. University of Montreal Press, 2023. 344 pages.
The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition: Creating Ethical and Impactful Non-fiction Films, by Shannon Walsh. Routledge, 2023. 256 pages.
Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive, edited by Nezih Erdogan and Ebru Kayaalp. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 258 pages.
How Film Histories Were Made: Materials, Methods, Discourses, edited by Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 530 pages.
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film, edited by Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon. University of California Press, 2023. 374 pages.
Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification, by Camille Blot-Wellens. Indiana University Press, 2022. 336 pages.
Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive, by Naomi DeCelles. University of California Press, 2022. 238 pages.
Reel Change: A History of British Cinema from the Projection Box, by Richard Wallace and Jon Burrows. John Libbey Publishing, 2022. 256 pages.
Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations, by Rosanna Maule. Routledge, 2023. 264 pages.
Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents, edited by Louis Pelletier and Rachael Stoeltje. International Federation of Film Archives, 2023. 342 pages.
Teaching Through the Archives: Text, Collaborations, and Activism, edited by Tarez Samra Graban and Wendy Hayden. Southern Illinois University Press, 2022. 354 pages.
We will also consider proposals for other recent scholarly books related to the discipline of Film and Media Studies, so long as they have not been reviewed in a previous issue of Synoptique. Proposals are due no later than Friday, April 26 and should be sent to book.reviews@synoptique.ca.
We accept submissions in both English and French. Final reviews must conform to the specifications outlined in our Submission Guidelines.
Jared Aronoff and Thomas Gow
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies