We are currently working on editing a journal special issue entitled ‘Students on Screen’ for the journal Open Screens. This call for papers is now closed.
Want to get involved? We still need reviewers for several books we would like reviewed in the issue. If you want to review a relevant book, please do get in touch.
What is the focus of the special issue?
Screen representations of students can frame, inform, and offer complex and competing messages about what it might mean to be a student both now and in the past. Williams (2010, p.170) has emphasised that media representations of students should be analysed because they ‘reflect back to society some of the dominant ways in which what it means to be a student is understood’. This special issue offers a collection of papers that critically examine representations of students on screen. It brings together screen studies scholars and educationalists to examine the construction of current crises and challenges in education from a range of perspectives. The issue explores how constructions of students are shaped and influenced by political, cultural, and social factors, focusing on key current issues relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.
Where are we at in the process?
The call for papers is now closed.
We are now waiting for final contributors to submit their articles and allocating reviewers as part of the peer review process.
We are aiming for the edited special collection to be ready for publication in 2024.
Want to know more about the journal Open Screens, for which the issue is being produced?
Open Screens is the open-access online journal of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. The scope of the journal is international and its vision is inter-disciplinary. It encourages innovative contributions from scholars of film, television and other screen-based media, publishing research articles, reviews and audio-visual research-by-film-practice. Open Screens ranges over the historical and the contemporary, and it aims to embrace film, television, screen and media studies, as well as screen-based research in related disciplines across the Humanities and beyond, such as area studies, gender studies and sexuality studies.