Call for Chapters: Collective Book
PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

Editors: Chris Rawls (Roger Williams University), Diana Neiva (University of Porto) and Steven S. Gouveia (University of Minho)

Preface: Professor Thomas E. Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College)

Submission deadline: November 13, 2017

Topics and issues of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Classical and contemporary film theory (formalist, psychoanalytic, feminist, cognitive, structuralist, etc.)
• Definitions of cinema (essencialist – e.g. medium specificity – and nonessentialist)
• Philosophical themes in film (ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, epistemology, etc.)
• Genre(s) (the issues on film genres, avant-garde, documentary, pornography, horror, drama, etc.)
• Specific films (interpretations, influences, presented philosophy, etc.)
• Sex and gender issues (feminist and queer film, the image of women in movies, etc.)
• Issues on narrative, spectatorship, authorship, etc.
• Authors on philosophy and film (Arnheim, Carroll, Wartenberg, Mulvey, Bordwell, Deleuze, etc.)
• Cinema and other arts (film and music, film and photography, film and architecture, etc.)
• Filmmakers (Bergman, Tarkovsky, Chaplin, Eisenstein, Carpenter, Kubrick, etc.)
• Video games and other forms of digital media
• Other issues and relations between philosophy and film

We encourage people from various backgrounds to submit the proposal for we support a multidisciplinary dialogue. We also strongly encourage submissions any under-represented groups!

Paper Submission Requirements:

• Submission: full paper.
• Text: Times New Roman, size 12, 1.5 (spacing), justified.
• Title: in the beginning of the paper, in SMALL CAPS, bold, centered, size 14.
• The name of the author should be included under the title, on the right side, size 12. Along the name put a * to a footnote which must include the institution and other relevant information about the author.
• Before the main text you should include an abstract (max. 300 words) and up to 5 keywords, size 12.
• Notes should be numbered automatically placed after any punctuation mark (Ex. “cogito, ergo sum”,1 ) and should be included in the footnote (not in the end of the text).
• Word count: 5.000 – 10.000 words.

Paper Submission Formatting:

• Quotations up to 3 lines should appear in the text, between quotation marks (use high quotes) “cogito, ergo sum” (Descartes, 1671: 12), with the respective reference literature at the end of the quotation with the following format: Author, year: pp.
• Longer quotations (more than 3 lines) must be submitted retreated (2 tabulations) and size 11, followed by the respective reference in brackets in the following format: (Author, year: 145-55).
• Quotes within quotes, use « ».
• Article: LAST NAME, first name followed by (year), “Title” in name of journal, Vol. IV, n. 18, pp. 123-35. Ex. TAYLOR, E. I. (2010), “William James and the humanistic implications of the neuroscience revolution: An outrageous hypothesis”, in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 50(4), 410-429.
• Book: LAST NAME, first name followed by (year), Title of the book, City: Publisher. Ex. DENNETT, Daniel (2013), Intuition Pumps, London: Penguin Books.

Please send the final version of your paper by November 13, 2017 to the following email address: mip2017@hotmail.com