From Dr Hilary Wheaton I just want to wish all of our members a Merry Christmas for those that choose to celebrate! I’m a member of the CMCS Advisory and Editorial Board, and I am extremely excited to see our LinkedIn group develop and grow over this next year. I know 2015 is full of…
A Genre Approach to Celebrity Politics (2015) By Nahuel Ribke (Tel Aviv University). Published by Palgrave MacMillan The study of celebrities has been the focus of several works from two main fields: Cultural Studies and Political Communication. But up until now, such works have produced only fragmented views of links between celebrity culture, the entertainment…
Bridging Gaps: Higher Education, Media and Society Call for Papers: In higher education, media studies bring critical awareness of representations and reproductions of popular personas, artefacts, processes, and practices in social, economic, and political contexts. From the perspective of cultural studies, critical discourse analysis of media productions enables scholars to go beyond observing aesthetic aspects and…
CFP: Gods, Icons, and Idols: Stars from Hollywood and Beyond An area of multiple panels for the 2016 Film & History Conference: Gods and Heretics: Figures of Power and Subversion in Film and Television October 26-October 30, 2016 The Milwaukee Hilton Milwaukee, WI (USA) DEADLINE for abstracts: July 15, 2016 Stars are like gods: Worshipped….
From Hannah Yelin This CfP may be of interest to members: Call for Papers Special Issue: Meghan Markle and the British Royal Family Deadline for submitting abstracts November 30th 2018 Editors: Hannah Yelin and Laura Clancy The Journal of Gender Studies JGS supporting Editor: Anita Biressi This CfP is for a proposed special issue with…
Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) has been covered on Humber News: http://humbernews.ca/thousands-sign-petition-to-have-snoop-dogg-narrate-planet-earth/ Special thanks to the reporter Cheyenne Lynch for the excellent coverage. For additional views by CMCS Director Dr Samita Nandy, visit https://samitanandy.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/interview-on-snoop-dogg-and-the-bbc/
