Science Fiction Film and Television is seeking articles for a special issue on Women & Science Fiction Media, intended to mark the 200th year anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Although sf was once stereotyped as a male genre, more recently women’s contributions as authors, fans, editors, and more have become more widely acknowledged. Central to this new understanding of women’s contributions to sf has been the realization that women have always been a part of the genre, resisting another stereotype that links women’s emergence in the field to the feminist fiction of the 1960s and 1970s. In recognition of the bicentenary of the publication of Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley, arguably the first sf novel, we seek essays that recognize, interrogate, respond to and celebrate women’s contributions to media sf. We are interested in reviewing any work that explores this topic, but we are particularly interested in contributions on the following topics:
- Female directors of sf film and television
- Female sf showrunners
- Female scriptwriters in sf
- Gender and Mary Shelley’s legacy in sf’s imagination of created beings
- Frankenstein remakes, adaptations, reboots and reinventions
- Gender and casting, and character arc in media sf
- Gender in sf fandom and criticism
Articles should be 7000 to 9000 words in length, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.
Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com), Gerry Canavan (gerrycanavan@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).
The deadline for submissions for this special issue is March 15, 2017.