Call for Papers: Starring Tom Cruise
By Sean Redmond Call for Papers, Edited Collection: Starring Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is one of the most successful Hollywood film stars of the last 35 years, with a cumulative worldwide box office of nearly $8 billion dollars. His star image moves across genres and forms, is product and franchise, and is also connected to ‘serious’ cinema through his work with auteurs. His private life has warranted a great deal of attention whether it be through his connection to scientology, his numerous failed marriages, or the ‘queer space’ he is placed within through fan work and gossip mongering....
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Shared by Kerstin Hacker URL: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BKI317/phd-studentship-opportunity-in-artists-at-home-self-representation-and-the-construction-of-celebrity-1870-1915/ PhD Studentship Opportunity in Artists at Home: Self-Representation and the Construction of Celebrity, 1870-1915 University of Surrey Qualification type: PhD Location: Guildford Funding for: UK Students, EU Students Funding amount: £14,777 Hours: Full Time Placed on: 6th June 2018 Closes: 21st June 2018 ★ View Employer Profile This collaborative doctoral project, supervised...
Read MoreCMCS Keynote – ANOKHI Media
Thanks to ANOKHI Media among sponsors L’Oréal and Toronto Film Academy for CMCS keynote famecritic – representing #celebstudies research and mediarelations. Fellow keynote: Prof. Renu Persaud (University of Windsor). We are honoured to be able to give a public voice. Please see below memorable shots. Stay tuned for more in New York City. ...
Read MorePhD Scholarship – Celebrity Studies & Fan Studies
Dr Joyleen Christensen https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-and-innovation/graduate-research/phd-scholarships/phd-scholarships/celebrity-and-fan-cultures One PhD Scholarship is available through the Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle for a research program in celebrity and fan cultures under the supervision of Dr Joyleen Christensen. Expressions of interest are being sought from highly motivated and enthusiastic applicants interested in pursuing an intensive PhD program in the field of celebrity and fan cultures. Projects focusing on fan cultures based on...
Read MoreCFP: Who sets the Public Agenda?
From Photini Vrikki CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries in the era of populism The intense and accelerated political shifts that have marked the global political landscape in recent years have been met with a rise of voices from the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). Celebrities, singers, actors and industry representatives have spoken out against—or for—the rise of far-right and conservative leaderships encouraging people to incite social and political change. For example, this has been visible from mainstream movie stars and pop singers...
Read MoreCFP: Playful Encounters
CALL FOR PAPERS Playful Encounters: Interdisciplinary engagements with play, creativity, entertainment, and fun University of Nottingham Ningbo China September 29th – 30th, 2018 Playful Encounters ‘Play is free movement within a more rigid structure’ (Salen and Zimmerman, 2004, p.304) “… law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play.” (Huizinga, 1980, p.5) ‘Any earnest definition of play has to be haunted by the possibility that playful enjoinders will render it invalid.’ (Sutton-Smith, 1997,...
Read MoreEast Side Institute – A conversation with Dr. Samita Nandy (May 22, 2018)
A conversation with Dr. Samita Nandy Hosted by the East Side Institute Tuesday, May 22, 7-8:30pm 119 West 23rd Street, Suite 902 (between 6th and 7th Avenues) RSVP to mfridley@eastsideinstitute.org by May 20 Space is limited so RSVPs are...
Read MoreBook Launch: Trump and the Media
From Dove Helena Pedlosky TRUMP AND THE MEDIA Wednesday, April 18, 2018 // 6-8 PM 20 Cooper Square 5th floor NYC 10003 RSVP: https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-launch-trump-and-the-media/ NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to join for the launch of Trump and the Media, edited by Pablo J. Boczkowski and Zizi Papacharissi. Contributing authors Rodney Benson, Andew Mendelson and Julia Sonnvend will be present in conversation with Geneva Overholser. Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise—to many...
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