CMCS Film Festival – Internship Applications 2022

The inaugural Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Wall of Fame film festival is looking to offer two 12-week voluntary internship to a film enthusiast who would like to learn how to become a film curator or a film writer / blogger for independent and ethical films. Benefits upon completion of the task.

  1. Communication Intern

Tasks:

  • Check email and send 1-line replies (as needed) – once a week
  • Research, communicate, and find a venue for the annual screening

2. Social Media Intern

Tasks:

  • Share the event in 5 filmmaking and 5 activist groups – once a month
  • Create compelling social media contest based on prize / giveaways – once a month

Skills:

  • BA / College diploma in film studies, entertainment journalism or a related field
  • Copywriting
  • Microsoft Word & social media
  • Awareness of human rights, animal ethics, and plant-based environmental sustainability
  • Must be prompt in following guidance and reporting supervisors
  • Media relations (preferred but not mandatory)

Benefits:

Upon completion, successful interns will learn and receive long-term opportunities to:

  • Receive a Stage 32 (partnered with Netflix) film training webinar 
  • Develop film criticism / reviews
  • Become a film curator
  • Media training
  • Connect and be a part of the CMCS & film network with over 4000+ members 
  • Stipend for 12-week media position in Summer / Fall 2022 – budge to be determined upon successful and effective marketing outreach during internship

Send expressions of interest along with CV to CMCS director Dr Samita Nandy at info@cmc-centre.com by January 31, 2022.

CFP: Stars and Star Systems in Film, Television, Theater and Radio

Posted by on Mar 22, 2018 in Blog | 0 comments

From Milan Hain (contact details and submission guidelines below) CFP: Stars and Star Systems in Film, Television, Theater and Radio Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2019) For the upcoming issue of Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities, a double blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, we are looking for articles exploring the theme of “Stars and Star Systems”. We invite proposals from all areas of Cinema, Television, Theater and Radio Studies as...

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Posted by on Mar 20, 2018 in Blog | 0 comments

Contact information of organizers Ellen Wright and Cinema & Television History (CATH) Research Centre is below. Free Symposium: Women in Hollywood To accommodate those affected by the current UCU strikes we are extending our call for papers. Deadline for submissions is now Friday March 30th 2018. Symposium organisers will still make final decisions on submissions by Friday 6th April We are now accepting proposals for our free one-day symposium on the treatment of women in Hollywood at the Cinema and Television History Research Centre,...

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Posted by on Mar 19, 2018 in Blog | 0 comments

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Theorising the Popular Conference 2018 Liverpool Hope University, July 11th-12th 2018 Deadline for abstracts: March 23, 2018 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its eighth annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2018 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within ‘traditional’ subjects. One of its chief...

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The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King’s College London was delighted to host ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashian Decade’, a short symposium on life-writing in the age of the Kardashians. Organised by Rob Gallagher (KCL, Postdoctoral Research Associate) and Oline Eaton (KCL, CLWR Visiting Research Fellow) as a part of Ego-Media, the afternoon featured talks followed by a panel discussion among scholars from diverse fields. Hannah Yellin (Oxford-Brookes, Lecturer in Media and Culture) started the session with a discussion of the...

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CFP All About Bette: The Cultural Legacies of Bette Davis 

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All About Bette: The Cultural Legacies of Bette Davis  Northwestern University, October 5-6, 2018  Join us in a two-day conference about all things Bette Davis, from the industries that created her, to the actress herself as an industry. Davis remains emblematic of the historical era of Classical Hollywood Cinema (1929-1960), the aesthetic practices we describe as modernist, and the political practices we describe as feminist. What would it mean to read Bette Davis as modernist? How does Davis operate as a node that allows us to think...

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Following the successful Screening Melbourne Symposium in February 2017, the Melbourne Screen Studies Group now seeks to solicit new abstracts for the Sound-Tracking MelbourneSymposium that will take place on 15-16 June 2018. While it is recognized that screen media form the connective tissue of Melbourne’s artistic and cultural life, the importance of sound to the way the moving image is brought to life, is relatively less well acknowledged. The Sound-Tracking Melbourne Symposium not only intends to give due critical and...

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Eulogy in Memory of Josh Nathan

Posted by on Jan 13, 2018 in Blog | 0 comments

  Words of care for Joshua Nathan On behalf of the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) advisors and members, we gather with our colleagues and friends to remember our board member Joshua Nathan with deep honor. It is hard to say goodbye to Josh, especially since he forever lives in our memories and in the vision of all we do. Those of us who knew and loved Josh remember him as a researcher at the University of Colorado, professor, broadcaster, writer and, above all, a true lifelong companion. And that companionship will...

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CFP 2018 Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture?

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CMCS 7th International Conference  Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture? Lisbon, Portugal July 1 – 3, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS The fashion modeling industry has occupied a significant area in celebrity culture. For the past forty decades, popular models, actors, authors, and athletes among many public figures have participated in photo shoots and runway shows, stylized their profile, and built their persona brand through visual and literary expressions of fashion. These expressions of fashion have played a key role in...

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