SFFTV: Winter 2024 Open Call for Submissions and Call for Reviewers

Science Fiction Film and Television invites article submissions on any topics related to sf and visual media; we especially invite articles related to the production economy of the culture industry and to non-US sf, as well as articles that related to possible upcoming special issues on (1) indigenous sf filmmaking and (2) the career of Taika Waititi.

We also invite proposals from potential guest editors for special issues; please write gerry.canavan@marquette.edu for more information on this process.

SFFTV is edited by Gerry Canavan (Marquette University), Alison Sperling (Florida State University), and Ida Yoshinaga (George Institute of Technology). Preferred length for articles is approximately 7000-9000 words; all topics related to science fiction film, television, gaming, other visual media will be considered. Typical response time is within three months. Check the journal website at Liverpool University Press for full guidelines for contributors; please direct any individualized queries to gerry.canavan@marquette.edu.

The journal is always seeking peer reviewers; if you would like to be, or are willing to be, a peer reviewer for SFFTV, please add yourself to our reviewer database at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.

The journal is also seeking reviewers of recent works of sf and sf-adjacent critical theory as well as recent SF visual media. We are welcome to pitches, but we also have the following books available for review:

* Heather Alberro, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott, UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN EXPLORATIONS OF PANDEMICS AND ECOLOGICAL BREAKDOWN

* Mark Bould and Steven Shaviro (eds.), THIS IS NOT A SCIENCE FICTION TEXTBOOK

* Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, and Sherryl Vint (eds.), THE NEW ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SCIENCE FICTION

* Julia Echeverría, EPIDEMIC CINEMA: THE RISE OF A GENRE 

* Joshua Gooch, CAPITALISM HATES YOU: MARXISM AND THE NEW HORROR FILM

* Yeojin Kim and Shane Carreon, MONSTERS AND MONSTROSITY IN MEDIA: REFLECTIONS ON VULNERABILITY

* Adam Kotsko, LATE STAR TREK

* Miguel Sebastian-Martin, THINKING THROUGH HIGH-TECH HELL: A THEORY OF NEW MEDIA DYSTOPIA

* Alan N. Shapiro, DECODING DIGITAL CULTURE WITH SCIENCE FICITON

* Mike Stack, DOCTOR WHO AND GAY MALE FANDOM: A QUEER(ED) TRANSMEDIA FRANCHISE

* Cenk Tan, Elçin Parçaoglu, and Nazan Yildiz Çiçekçi (eds.), SCIENCE FANTASY

* J.P. Telotte, SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE

* Erik Trump and Jake Parcell, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SURVIVAL: SETTING AND POLITICS IN APOCALYPSE FILMS 

Reviews typically run 1000-2000 words, or 2000-4000 words in our “review essay” format. Samples of both types of review are available upon request.

For our media in review section, we are now primarily interested in:

* reviewers who are calling attention to things that have gone overlooked in the larger entertainment-media-complex landscape, especially international film;

* reviewers with a specific aesthetic, political, or philosophical “take” on a text, as opposed to a more traditional review that recapitulates the plot at length and advises the potential viewer whether or not they ought to watch it.

This notion of a specific “take” is especially important for blockbuster franchise fare, like the MCU or Star Wars movies; in most cases we would only be interested in a review essay for such a film, discussing it within some larger critical context.

Due to a recent review backlog we have not been actively soliciting reviewers; as a result, much recent SF media is still available for reviewing. If there is a film you are interested in reviewing, please contact gerry.canavan@marquette.edu and let him know the name of the film and what you think you’d like to say about it. Deadlines are quite flexible. We look forward to hearing from you!