Call for Papers: Acidemic #8: Brecht, Godard, Wood (and other Acidemic news)

Calling all Quakers! Pundits, Philosophers, Brechtians, Woodies, Match Kings and Red Queens, here's an early announcement on the subject for the next issue of Acidemic Journal of Film and Media, the eighth issue.(of which this blog is a proud offshoot).

Brecht - Godard - Wood, an unheimliche trio (their muses--Lenya, Karina, Vampira, above); from the fourth wall shattering, narrative immersion-disrupting carny barker Marxism of the Weimar Era's own Bertolt Brecht to the 'unconscious' post-modern transvestite sci fi of Edward D. Wood, Jr. to... Godard, wherein we can perhaps locate the creamy middle of what cinema, metatextuality, artifice and the 'pleasure' of suspension of suspension of belief  is all about

With his shots of spinning tape recorders and pop singers sulking around pinball machines and reading philosophy aloud from the bookstore, Godard compares well to Wood's indifferent sense of (dis)continuity. Is Brecht their spiritual father and where does fleabag economy and drunken incompetence blur into post-modern genius and intellectual rigor? And he asks you where What is. It all comes unglued just by talking about it, and there's plenty of room between these melted titans to explore other serious or accidental post-modernists: Ulmer, Lewton, Warhol, Ormond, Ray, Ray, Beaudine, Cassavettes, Anger, Zulawski, Suzuki..Cunha.

Deadline is May 29, 2012 - It's earlier than usual because of the apocalypse.

Send submissions pasted into email or via word to: Erichk9@aol.com.

And may God protect us all... in the future...

PS: I got a Kindle for Xmas so am working on getting Acidemic avail. via Amazon. If you have a kindle, check it out here.

Also working on my first essay collection, Sisters of the Blue Ray: Post-Cinema's New Sirens or E-book only! Why kill a tree... when I can kill somezing elze?

..and Happy New Year! Resolution 1: Starting in 2012 I'm going to desist from using block caps for movie titles. Ed Howard doesn't use them, why should I? It's just an old habit from working for Scarlet Street and Muze Inc. But in 2012 it's no longer really necessary thanks to a more understazzzzzzzzzzz