Dystopian Literature 2019 : Call for Submissions [Publisher Attached Collection / Reference Work]: Dystopian States of America: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in American Literature, Film, and Politics.

Call for Submissions [Publisher Attached Collection / Reference Work]: Dystopian States of America: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in American Literature, Film, and Politics.


Deadline for Essay Proposals: June 1, 2019
Deadline for Essay Drafts: January 15, 2020
Deadline for Reference Entries: December 1, 2019

Overview:

Submissions requested for Dystopian States of America: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in American Literature, Film, and Politics. This project aims to be an accessible, wide-ranging survey of and reference work on dystopian and apocalyptic themes in literature, film, and popular culture. According to the publisher:
The set will not only provide insights into some of the most influential and disturbing visions of futuristic dystopia/apocalypse in film and literature, but also provide a gateway through which to examine anxieties and concerns that have roiled American politics and society over the years, such as climate change and other environmental catastrophes, nuclear proliferation, totalitarianism, technological over-reach (artificial intelligence, genetic engineering), pandemics, cultural decay, racial tensions/competition, and religious extremism.

This collection is set to be published by ABC-Clio Publishers in mid-2021.
Compensation in the form of contributors’ copies will be provided.

Organization & Contents:
Dystopian States of America will be comprised of two main sections:

• Five to Seven (5-7) 3,000 word overview essays that will investigate in a critical but accessible way the relationship between cultural visions of dystopia and specific societal anxieties and the political/cultural forces that both drive and respond to those visions and concerns.

These essays should be written for an educated lay audience (high-school / undergraduate) rather than a strictly academic one.

Subjects for overview essays (~3,000 words) include:
o totalitarianism
o war
o environmental calamity
o disease / pandemics
o cultural decline
o technological overreach
o social inequality / class conflict
o racial anxieties / fear of the “other”

Scholars interested in contributing an overview essay should send a 300-400 word proposal and CV to the project editor, Dr. Matthew B Hill @ [email protected] by June 1, 2019. Drafts of accepted essays will be due on January 15, 2020.

Essays should use Chicago Manual of Style (17th Ed).


• Approximately 150-175 reference entries (600-1,500 words) on works of apocalyptic and / or dystopian fiction in a variety of media (literature, film, music, video games). These entries should be written for an educated lay audience (high school / undergraduate) and should consist of the following:

o A short overview of the plot of the work;
o An analysis of the major themes present in the work;
o A brief discussion of how one or more cultural concerns or anxieties common to dystopian fiction (totalitarianism, war, environmental calamity, disease / pandemics, cultural decline, technological overreach, social inequality / class conflict, racial anxieties / fear of the “other”) are addressed or interrogated in the work.
o Any key secondary sources that address the work;
o Subjects for which entries are needed (and associated suggested word counts) are as follows:

12 Monkeys (Gilliam, Terrry) 600
1984 (Orwell, George; Radford, Michael) 1,500
2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke, Arthur C.; Kubrick, Stanley) 1,000
2012 (Emmerich, Roland) 600
28 Days Later /28 Weeks Later (Boyle, Danny; Fresnadillo, Fernando) 600
3% (Netflix Series) 600
A Boy and His Dog (Ellison, Harlan) 600
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess, Anthony; Kubrick, Stanley) 1,500
Aeon Flux (Chung, Peter; Kusama, Karyn) 600
Age of Apocalypse (X-Men) 600
AI 600 (Spielberg, Steven)
Akira (Otomo, Katsuhiro) 600
Alas, Babylon (Frank, Pat) 600
All The Birds in the Sky (Anders, Charlie Jane) 600
All These Things I've Done (Zevin, Gabrielle) 600
Altered Carbon (Kalogridis, Laeta) 600
American War (El Akkad, Omar) 600
Amerika (ABC Miniseries) 600
An Ember in the Ashes (Tahir, Sabaa) 600
Animal Farm (Orwell, George) 1,500
Armageddon (Bay, Michael) 600
Atlas Shrugged (Rand, Ayn) 1,000
Avatar (Cameron, James) 600
Avatar: The Last Airbender (DiMartino, Michael Dante; Konietzko, Bryan) 600
Batman (Kane, Bob; ) 2,000
Battlefield Earth (Christian, Roger) 600
Battlestar Galactica (Larson, Glen A.; Moore, Ronald) 750
Belles, The (Clayton, Dhonielle) 600
Black Mirror (Brooker, Charlie) 1,500
Blade Runner (Scott, Ridley) 1,000
Blade Runner 2049 (Villenueve; Denis) 600
Book of Eli, The (Hughes, Albert) 600
Brave New World (Huxley, Aldous) 1,500
Brazil (Malick, Terrance) 750
Broken Earth Series (Jemisin, N.K.) 750
Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller, Walter M.) 750
Children of Men (James, P.D.; Cuaron, Alfonso) 1,000
Circle, The (Eggers, Dave) 600
City of Ember, The (DuPrau, Jeanne) 600
Cloverfield Series (Abrams, J.J., et. al) 600
Colony (Condal, Ryan; Cuse, Carlton) 600
C.S.A.: Confederate States of America (Willmot, Kevin) 600
Contagion (Soderbergh, Steven) 600
Crazies, The (Romero, George A.; Eisner, Breck) 600
Cyborg (Monae, Janelle) 600
Dahlgren (Delany, Samuel R.) 600
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, George A.; Snyder, Zack) 600
Day After Tomorrow, The (Emmerich, Roland) 600
Day of the Triffids (Wyndam, John) 600
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (Guest, Val) 600
Daybreakers (Sperig, Michael) 600
Days of Futures Past (X-Men) 600
Death Race / Death Race 2000 (Bartel, Paul; Anderson, Paul W.S.) 600
Delicatessen (Caro, Marc; Jeunet, Jean-Pierre) 600
Disappointments of the Apocalypse (Karr, Mary) 600
District 9 (Blomkamp, Neil) 600
Divergent Series (Roth, Veronica; Burger, Neil) 600
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick, Philip K) 600
Dog Stars, The (Heller, Peter) 600
Elysium (Scott, Ridley) 600
Escape from New York / LA (Carpenter, John) 600
eXistenZ (Cronenberg, David) 600
Falling Skies (TNT Series; Rodat, Robert) 600
Fallout (Video Game Series) 600
Fareinheit 451 (Bradbury, Ray; Truffaut, Francois; Bahrani, Ramin) 1,500
Fifth Season, The (Jemisin, N.K.) 600
Firefly / Serenity (Whedon, Joss) 600
Futureland (Moseley, Walter) 600
Gattaca (Niccol, Andrew) 1,000
Giver, The (Lowry, Lois) 600
Half-Life Series (Video Game Series) 600
Handmaid's Tale, The (Atwood, Margaret; Miller, Bruce) 1,500
Happening, The (Shymalan, M. Night) 600
Homefront Series (Video Game Series) 600
Hunger Games, The (Collins, Suzanne; Ross, Gary, Lawrence, Francis) 1,000
I Am Legend / The Last Man on Earth / The Omega Man (Matheson, Richard; Salko, Sidney; Sagal, Boris; Lawrence, Francis) 1,200
I, Robot (Asimov, Isaac; Proyas, Alex) 600
Idiocracy (Judge, Mike) 1,000
In Time (Niccol, Andrew) 600
Independence Day (Emmerich, Roland) 600
Infinite Jest (Wallace, David Foster) 600
Interstellar (Nolan, Christopher) 600
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman, Philip) 600
Invasion USA (Green, Alfred E.; Zito, Joseph) 600
Iron Heel, The (London, Jack) 750
Island, The (Bay, Michael) 600
It Can't Happen Here (Lewis, Sinclair) 600
Jeremiah (Straczynski, J. Michael) 600
Jericho (Chbosky, Stephen; Schaer, Josh) 600
Judge Dredd (Wagner, John; Cannon, Danny) 600
Last Man on Earth, The (TV Series; Forte, Will) 600
Last Policeman, The (Winters, Ben H.) 600
Lathe of Heaven, The (LeGuin, Ursula K.) 600
Left Behind (LaHaye, Tim; Jenkins, Jerry B.; Armstrong, Vic) 750
Leftovers, The (Perotta, Tom; Lindelof, Damon) 600
Lobster, The (Lanthimos, Yorgos) 600
Logan's Run (Nolan, William F.) 750
Mad Max Series (Miller, George) 1,500
Make Room! Make Room! (Harrison, Harry) 600
Man in the High Castle, The (Dick, Philip K.; Spotnitz, Frank) 1,000
Matrix, The (Wachowskis, The) 1,000
Maze Runner, The (Ball, Wes) 600
Metro Series (Video Game Series) 600
Metropolis (Lang, Fritz) 1,000
Minority Report (Dick, Philip K.; Spielberg, Steven) 600
Mist, The (King, Stephen; Darabont, Frank) 600
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed, Ishmael) 600
Neuromancer (Gibson, William) 600
Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro, Kazuo) 600
Night of the Living Dead (Romero, George A.) 1,000
On the Beach (Kramer, Stanley) 1,000
Oryx and Crake (Atwood, Margaret) 600
Outbreak (Petersen, Wolfgang) 600
Parable of the Sower (Butler, Octavia) 600
Passage, The (Cronin, Justin; Heldens, Liz) 600
Planet of the Apes Series (Schaffner, Franklin J.; et. al) 1,500
Player Piano (Vonnegut, Kurt) 600
Pleasantville (Ross, Gary) 600
Postman, The (Costner, Kevin) 600
Purge, The Series (DeMonaco, James, et. al.) 1,000
Quiet Place, A (Krasinski, John) 600
Ready Player One (Cline, Ernest; Spielberg, Steven) 600
Red Dawn (Milius, John) 600
Red Faction (Video Game Series) 600
Red Rising Trilogy (Brown, Pierce) 600
Resident Evil (Video Game Series; Anderson, Paul W.S., et. al.) 600
Revelation, Book of 1,500
Riddley Walker (Hoban, Russel) 600
Road, The (McCarthy, Cormac) 1,000
Robocop (Verhoeven, Paul) 600
Rollerball (Jewison, Norman; McTiernan, John) 600
Ruins (Ellis, Warren) 600
Running Man, The (King, Stephen; Glaser, Paul Michael) 600
Scanner Darkly, A (Dick, Philip K.; Linklater, Richard) 600
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (Scafaria, Lorene) 600
Shaun of the Dead (Wright, Edgar) 600
Skin Folk (Hopkinson, Nalo) 600
Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut, Kurt) 750
Snow Crash (Stephenson, Neal) 600
Snowpiercer (Bong, Joon-ho) 600
Sorry to Bother You (Riley, Boots) 600
Soylent Green (Fleischer, Richard) 750
Stand, The (King, Stephen) 600
Starship Troopers (Heinlen Robert; Verhoeven, Paul) 600
Station 11 (Mandel, Emily St. John) 600
Super Sad True Love Story (Shteyngart) 600
Surrogates (Mostow, Jonathan) 600
Survivors (Hodges, Adrian) 600
Tank Girl (Hewlett, Jamie; Talalay, Rachel) 600
Terminator, The (Cameron, James) 1,000
The Last of Us (Video Game Series) 600
They Live (Carpenter, John) 600
This is the End (Wright, Edgar) 600
THX 1138 (Lucas, George) 600
Total Recall (Verhoeven, Paul; Wiseman, Len) 600
Transcendence (Pfister, Wally) 600
Transmetropolitan (Ellis, Warren) 600
Trial, The (Kafka, Franz) 600
Turner Diaries, The (Pierce, William Luther) 600
V for Vendetta (Moore, Alan; Wachowskis, The) 1,000
Walking Dead, The (Kirkman, Robert; Darabont, Frank) 1,000
Wall-E (Stanton, Andrew) 600
War of the Worlds (Wells, H.G.; film adaptations) 600
Warm Bodies (Levine, Jonathan) 600
Wasteland (Video Game Series) 600
Watchmen (Moore, Alan; Snyder, Zack) 1,000
Watership Down (Adams, Walter) 600
Waterworld (Reynolds, Kevin) 600
We (Zamyatin, Yevgeny) 600
Westworld (Crichton, Michael) 600
What Happened to Monday (Wirkola, Tommy) 600
Windup Girl, The (Bacigalupi, Paolo) 600
Wool (Howley, Hugh) 600
World War Z (Brooks, Max; Forster, Marc) 600
World's End, The (Wright, Edgar) 600
Y: The Last Man (Vaughn, Brian K.) 600
Z for Zachariah (O'Brien, Robert C; Zobel, Craig) 600
Zombieland (Fleischer, Ruben) 600



Reference entries should use the Chicago Manual of Style (17th Ed).

Scholars interested in contributing reference entries should send an email query and CV to the project editor, Dr. Matthew B Hill ([email protected]) indicating which entries they would like to contribute; Dr. Hill will assign entries on a rolling basis until the project is completed.

Queries will be accepted starting on February 11, 2019, and completed entries will be due from contributors on December 1, 2019.

Compensation:
Contributors’ copies will be provided based on the level of contribution to the project.

Overview Essay (3,000 words) 1 contributor copy
1-3 entries (~1,800 words) Complimentary E-Text
Up to 6 entries Complimentary E-Text & 1 contributor copy
7+ entries Complimentary E-Text & 1 contributor copy; additional contributor copy for every 3 entries (~1,800 words) completed above the initial 6. (e.g., at the 9th, 12th , 15th, etc.)