CFP: Stars and Star Systems in Film, Television, Theater and Radio
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 well as interdisciplinary submissions from across...
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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 about the reach of mass culture in shaping (and...
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