Film and Media Reviewers Needed (Especially for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein) (4/3/2026)

Film and Media Reviewers Needed (Especially for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein)

deadline for submissions:
April 3, 2026

full name / name of organization:
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19)

contact email:
jpc0018@uah.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/03/film-and-media-reviewers-needed-especially-for-guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein


The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.

The editors of I19 also welcome thoughtful, critically engaged 1500-2500 word media reviews of classic and contemporary films, streaming tv shows, video games and more that incorporate "incredible nineteenth-century" elements into both their forms and/or content. Blended historical genres like steampunk, neovictorianism, and magical realism are welcome. The media text might be set in the nineteenth century (ex. Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, dir. Timur Bekmambetov [2015]) or 'haunted" by facets of nineteenth-century culture such as its legacy of slavery (Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele [2017]), its settler colonialism (Blood Quantum, dir. Jeff Baranaby [2019]), its fairy tales (the Bluebeard narratives of The Piano or In the Cut, dir. Jane Campion [1993, 2003] or its literary traditions (The Invisible Man, dir. Leigh Wannell [2020]). Recent issues have featured reviews of several garden-focused titles in the "Cozy Victorian" video game genre, orientalism in House of Dragons, and a French/British co-production of War of the Worlds, and a Turkish adaptation of Frankenstein set in early twentieth-century Istanbul.

For the Spring 2026 issue, we already have a reviewer for Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), but we are very interested in having someone review monster-movie auteur Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for Netflix. Please contact me if you are interested - ideally someone would not just review the film but place its adaptation in dialogue with Shelley's original.

We are always happy to accept individual reviews of a classic or new film, video game, or streaming series, but we are also very excited to work with contributors who might want to provide an "overview" of some cultural trend that can be traced across several media texts or multiple works by an individual director. Contributors working on cultural texts from marginalized communities or focused on media productions in global contexts beyond the Anglosphere are especially encouaged to submit.

Please reach out to Joe Conway (jpc0018@uah.edu) for inquiries and submissions. Draft of submissions are needed by April 3 for the next issue.



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