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SEQUENCE Two<\/a>: We Need to Talk about Maternal Melodrama<\/em> is the second issue of SEQUENCE<\/a>:<\/em> Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music, an experimental, peer-reviewed, sequential<\/em> edited-collection format. Each new scholarly SEQUENCE begins with the publication of one valuable contribution to research in the fields of media, film or music on a particular theme named in the issue title. But individual issue editors don\u2019t necessarily know what the next in the series will be, or when exactly it will come. Each SEQUENCE could, theoretically, turn out to be \u2018infinite\u2019, or only as worthwhile as the first, self-contained, and\u00a0hopefully interesting and worthy, contribution.<\/p>\n

In any case, each contribution, and each evolving SEQUENCE, will go onto be published in a variety of eReading formats<\/a>, with the web version only the first in a series of digital iterations. Please follow this blog<\/a>, or our Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> pages for updates about those.<\/p>\n

I am thrilled that the inaugural contribution to SEQUENCE Two<\/a>: We Need to Talk about the Maternal Melodrama<\/em> is feminist film and media scholar and theorist Sue Thornham\u2019s essay<\/a> \u2018”A HATRED SO INTENSE\u2026”; We Need to Talk about Kevin<\/i>, Postfeminism and Women\u2019s Cinema’ (<\/b>2.1 [2013]<\/a>). <\/b>Thornham’s study is an excellent and very wide-ranging exploration of Lynne Ramsay\u2019s recent film, one that provocatively, and expertly, revisits important debates about\u00a0maternal representation, matriarchal genealogy, feminist cultural production, and classical and contemporary melodrama.<\/p>\n

As we are sequentially inviting responses to the first entry in this iteration of SEQUENCE, Thornham\u2019s article also constitutes a Call for Contributions<\/em> for further We Need to Talk about the Maternal Melodrama<\/a> sequences. If you\u2019re inspired to respond, especially if you have related research work in progress on any of the topics raised by her essay, and\/or the SEQUENCE title, in relation to any relevant cultural or communications medium (not just cinema), please get in touch with us at SEQUENCEserial[at]gmail[dot]com<\/a>. Multimedia responses of all kinds are also very much encouraged. But it would be worthwhile to discuss any substantial response with us at an early stage in your planning. All contributions need to comply with UK copyright law and the current understanding of fair dealing.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to offer a shorter response, there is also the option of leaving a comment in the moderated stream at the foot of each SEQUENCE Two entry. SEQUENCES may be long and short in all sorts of ways.<\/p>\n

We should be able publish \u2018full-length\u2019 responses quite quickly, although contributors should note that they will be formally peer-reviewed. But there are no editorial prescriptions on length or content, except that your work should be some kind of \u2018sequential response\u2019. If you don\u2019t want to respond right away, you can still enter the \u2018chain\u2019 of responses later on.<\/p>\n

SEQUENCE Two<\/a> is being edited and produced<\/em> by Catherine Grant<\/a>, founder and (with Russell Pearce)<\/a> co-editor of the SEQUENCE <\/a>project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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