CFP Stars and Stardom in Eastern European Cinema
From Gabor Gergely <GGergely@lincoln.ac.uk> This is a reminder that there are six days left to submit abstracts for this special edition of Studies in Eastern European Cinema on Stars and Stardom. Please see below for details.CALL FOR PAPERS – Stars and Stardom in Eastern European Cinema. A special issue of Studies in Eastern European Cinema edited by Gábor Gergely (University of Lincoln). A significant body of scholarship since Dyer’s groundbreaking work on stars (1979; 1986) has challenged the view that stardom was limited to Hollywood (e.g. Vincendeau 2000,...
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From Feona Attwood PORN STUDIES CALL FOR FORUM PIECESOur Forum section is a space for pieces that are shorter than the usual academic article, usually somewhere between 1,500 and 3,000 words, and they can take a variety of forms, including short articles, reports, interviews, commentaries and roundtable discussions. Forum pieces are peer reviewed. Previous Forum topics have included porn panics and public health; Ireland, porn and sex education; feminist porn; fashion and porn; porn and music; porn in the classroom, and surveillance and porn. We are currently seeking Forum...
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From Joshua Morrison <morr1512@umn.edu> CFP from Teaching Media Quarterly‘s upcoming special issue: Teaching CelebrityDeadline: January 1, 2020 Teaching Media Quarterly is an open-access journal dedicated to sharing approaches to teaching media topics and concepts. Please consider submitting a lesson plan to our current call: Teaching Celebrity. You can access our journal HERE, and please note that we also have an ongoing open call for lesson plans. Information about the latest call is below. Please share with friends, colleagues, and grad students who...
Read MoreCFP Celebrity Studies Special Issue – Keanu Reeves
From Renee Middlemost Call for Papers Special Edition of Celebrity Studies, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas **Keanu Reeves** Since his emergence as a teen actor in the 1980s, Keanu Reeves has been an enduring, yet elusive celebrity who continues to fascinate and frustrate in equal measure. Despite his unwavering popularity, in recent years his lower public profile has seen Reeves assume the status of cult or folk icon; yet slowly the world appears to have fallen for Reeves all over again. USA Today declared June 2019 ‘The Summer of Keanu Reeves’...
Read MoreLecture: Queer Celebrity
Jack Halberstam speaks on Queer Celebrity The Celebrity, Citizenship and Status project at the University of Portsmouth is pleased to welcome Professor Jack Halberstam to give a keynote at the Queer Celebrity Conference in Portsmouth, 6-7 June 2019. Given the wide interest in Professor Halberstam’s research and writing, this lecture has been made free and open to the public. Jack Halberstam is a professor at Columbia University and an internationally renowned gender and queer theorist. Professor Halberstam is the author of six books including Female...
Read MoreCFP Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline
FPRC Conference Fame and Fandom: Functioning On and Offline December 8-10, 2019 Perth, Western Australia The University of Western Australia Media is dependent on consumers. Celebrities are reliant on fans and mass media. One cannot exist without the other. However, in academia there is a divide between fan studies and celebrity studies. This conference aims to draw these fields together by uniting fan studies, celebrity studies, media, film and television, advertising, marketing, Internet studies, education, politics and any other field. We invite you to look at...
Read MoreLecture: Celebrity Actors & Actresses on Playing Real People
From Kirsty Sedgman kirsty.sedgman@bristol.ac.uk The School of Arts at the University of Bristol are delighted to announce that this year’s annual STR Wickham Lecture will be given by our new Head of School, Professor Mary Luckhurst. We invite our MECCSA colleagues to join us here at Bristol Uni for a fascinating talk and Q&A on Prof. Luckhurst’s research, followed by the chance to socialise afterwards over wine and soft drinks!Society for Theatre Research: Wickham Lecture 2019’Celebrity Actors & Actresses on Playing Real People’: Prof. Mary Luckhurst...
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Starring Asia: A Three-Day international Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity Posted by Sean Redmond https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/3815823/starring-asia-three-day-international-conference-asian-stardom Starring Asia A Three-Day international Conference on Asian Stardom and Celebrity Date: 2-4 December 2019 Venue: Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Conference and Event Organisers: Shenshen Cai (Swinburne University of Technology), Glen Donnar (RMIT University), Koichi Iwabuchi (Monash University), Vikrant Kishore (Deakin University),...
Read MoreCFP: Stardom and the Archive
From Dr. Lisa Stead, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Exeter, l.r.stead2@exeter.ac.uk Stardom and the Archive: an International Symposium Followed by a public exhibition event on Sunday 9th February 2020 University of Exeter, Devon, UK Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Maryanne Dever (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney) Dr. Lucy Bolton (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London) New developments in star studies have been led by a number of recent and...
Read MoreBook Release: Madhuri Dixit (BFI/Bloomsbury)
Announcing the publication of Dr Nandana Bose’s new monograph Madhuri Dixit as part of the British Film Institute’s Film Stars Series, edited by Martin Shinger and Susan SmithMADHURI DIXITNandana Bose A wide-ranging account of the Indian film star Madhuri Dixit, one of the most popular actresses of Hindi cinema. Nandana Bose’s study traces Dixit’s twenty-five year career, exploring her star persona, her indelible impact on Indian popular culture, and her continuing popularity even in middle age. Nandana Bose discusses Dixit’s unusual and distinctive...
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