Multiplexities: Popular Screen Cultures is an exciting and dynamic new venture launched by Manchester University Press and is a successor to the highly successful Inside Popular Film series.
The series editors seek book proposals (monographs, co-authored books, edited collections, textbooks) on popular film, television series and popular screen cultures. While many topics will likely emerge from Western popular culture, topics that appeal to global audiences are of particular interest. As such, prospective authors and editors may define what is ‘popular’ in multifarious ways (e.g. box office numbers, streaming figures, cultural proliferation, internationalisation, sequels, off-shoots and reboots or radical revision or reclamation of its subject matter). Above all else, this series defines itself as a space for substantial scholarly work on popular screen entertainment.
This series welcomes studies on long-form streaming series, significant figures within popular film and television (screenwriters, producers, directors), alongside the cultural history and evolution of popular screen genres and modes. These popular series and films may also include tent-pole titles (legacy titles, prolonged sequelisation); sequels, prequels, adaptations and reboots, remasters; and important figures in popular screen entertainment and their scholarly reception (whether available via cinema exhibition, streaming and/or alternative modes of accessibility). Analyses may engage with interdisciplinary modes of study, and may examine their subjects in any number of contexts, with an aim to providing a more comprehensive interpretation of the socio-cultural purchase of popular narratives across the globe (and their geographic specificities and reception).
We would be delighted to seek out scholarly proposals on franchises and texts, including The Terminator; Marvel films (and their adaptation); Batman; The Addams Family, Halloween, Ringu, Evil Dead, Star Trek, Star Wars, YA franchises (The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.), Jurassic Park, James Bond, Pixar, Studio Ghibli, Bollywood, Tollywood, Stranger Things, Twin Peaks, Squid Game, etc.
Introducing the series editors
Dr Christine Lee Gengaro, Los Angeles City College
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University
Senior Commissioning Editor
We would love to hear your proposals and ideas. Please get in touch with our Senior Commissioning Editor Michelle Houston, [email protected] to find out more.