CFP: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

The cinematic release of Jamie Dornan 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:

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 for publication this year. Submissions should be emailed to assistant editor Sarah Taylor-Harman at Sarah.Harman@brunel.ac.uk.

Inquiries and expressions of interest are also welcomed.