The cinematic release of Sam Taylor-Johnson’s /Fifty Shades of Grey/ (2015) has already garnered speculation, derision and debate equal to its highly controversial source text, E. L. James’ homonymous trilogy. Its alignment with mass media, a predominantly female audience and mainstream cinema make it a concurrently anticipated and abhorred rich contemporary text. /Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media /thus invites papers which will interrogate this adaptation from a plethora of new perspectives including industry, text and reception analysis.
Focuses may include, but are not limited to:
* Adaptation Studies
* Audience Studies
* Comparative film analyses
* Criticism analyses
* Genre and Formalism
* Fans and Fan-Fiction
* Kink, BDSM and Sexual Politics
* Publicity, promotion and paratexts
* Psychoanalytic textual analysis
* Queer Theory
* Social Networking and the Blogosphere
* Star Studies
Authors are expected to familiarise themselves both with the pre-existing literature on /Fifty/ /Shades/, and with the submission guidelines available at:
http://intensitiescultmedia.com/about-intensities/submission-guidelines/
Considering the timeliness of this topic, the deadline for submissions of full 6-8k papers accompanied by 250 word abstracts and 150 word bios is April 30th 2015
<https://cas.brunel.ac.uk/owa/14.3.210.2/scripts/premium/UrlBlockedError.aspx> for publication this year. Submissions should be emailed to assistant editor Sarah Taylor-Harman at Sarah.Harman@brunel.ac.uk