CfP: Special Issue on Asian Crime Cinema2026.5.2 {en}

The editors are inviting proposals for a special issue of Global Storytelling on Asian crime cinema. Topics may include—but are not limited to—issues of justice and transgression, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, violence and redemption, gender and desire, vengeance and ressentiment, institutions and heterotopias, genre and industry. We are particularly interested in projects that combine detailed analysis of specific works with broader reflections on the theoretical, methodological, and ideological implications of the analysis.

We welcome projects analyzing works set in and/or originating from Asia, particularly East, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as submissions examining a broader range of works that take inspiration from them (such as Scorsese’s The Departed, as a remake of Lau and Mak’s Infernal Affairs). Also, we welcome projects that examine feature films, but also ones that focus on other cinematic media forms, including serialized television or video episodes, narrative games, and so forth.

Please submit a 300-word abstract and short bio by May 15, 2026. For selected proposals, full submissions will be due October 1, 2026. Global Storytelling is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital-born journal. Conventional articles are certainly welcome, but video essays and other types of multimedia contributions are also possible.

**Please kindly submit your proposals to GSTjournal[at]duke.edu.
Please contact c.rojas[at]duke.edu if you have any questions.

Source: CFP: Special Issue on Asian Crime Cinema, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US.