The Global Media and Small Nations Series
Series editors:
Professor Steve Blandford, Dr David Barlow and Dr Gill Allard of the Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations at the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan.
Guidelines for proposers of prospective volumes:
The series will consist of around ten separately commissioned volumes which focus on different aspects of media and culture in small nations, first nations and diaspora.
The titles will provide a particular focus on such issues of national identity, localisation and globalisation, though clearly each separate volume will provide a unique perspective.
It is envisaged that the series will focus on ‘media’, but that the nature and structure of each volume could be radically different. For example there could be a mix of edited collections and single authored volumes and within each volume some might be structured around different national perspectives whilst others might take a thematic approach.
Each volume needs to provide a significant geographic spread in terms of coverage and the series seeks almost above all else to raise interesting questions about the concept of the ‘small nation’. It therefore follows that the idea of the small nation itself can be treated in radically different ways.
The general editors have proposed to UWP the following very provisional list of areas in which they would like to see volumes, but this is by no means definitive and the editors are very open to discussions of other ideas that take the rest of these guidelines into account. The first three in the following list are currently being prepared and the editors therefore seek proposals that compliment these titles:
• Radio
• Advertising
• Theatre and Performance
• TV
• Screen Fictions
• Art
• Architecture
• Press
• Literature
• The Web
The main market would be in undergraduate and postgraduate students in film, television and radio studies, and in media, communication and cultural studies more generally. There will also be a secondary market in globalisation and development studies, and lay readership is likely to be significant, particularly within the nations (and their ‘neighbours’) that feature in the proposed volumes.
The proposed texts could be used as core readings on courses addressing film, and television studies; theatre and performance studies; radio studies; media, communications and cultural studies; new media; design and architecture; globalisation and development studies. These study areas are widely offered in higher education institutions in the UK, Europe, North America, Australasia, Asia and Africa.
Commissioning process:
1. Prospective authors should first make an informal approach to the series editors:
Professor Steve Blandford
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
ATRiuM
The University of Glamorgan
86–88 Adam Street
Cardiff, CF24 2FN
01443 668502
sblandfo@glam.ac.uk
Dr David Barlow
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
ATRiuM
The University of Glamorgan
86–88 Adam Street
Cardiff, CF24 2FN
01443 668585
dbarlow@glam.ac.uk
Dr Gill Allard
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries
ATRiuM
The University of Glamorgan
86–88 Adam Street
Cardiff, CF24 2FN
01443 668583
gallard@glam.ac.uk
2. Following informal discussions prospective authors/editors will complete a standard University of Wales Press proposal which will be seen by the series editors before external review.
The UWP proposal form and general information about the publishers can be found at:
http://www.uwp.co.uk/holding_frame.html
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