Book Release: The Cinema of Robert Altman
The Cinema of Robert Altman: Hollywood Maverick Robert Niemi Wallflower Press (an imprint of Columbia University Press) http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-robert-altman/9780231176279 Publication date: March 1, 2016 In a controversial and tumultuous filmmaking career that spanned nearly fifty years, Robert Altman mocked, subverted, or otherwise refashioned Hollywood narrative and genre conventions. Altman’s idiosyncratic vision and propensity for formal experimentation resulted in an uneven body of work: some rank failures and intriguing near-misses, as well as a number of...
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‘Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood’ with OUP now available at: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/srk-and-global-bollywood-9780199460472?cc=us&lang=en&# Table of Content Acknowledgements Message from Shah Rukh Khan Introduction STARDOM AND GLOBALIZED INDIA Unthinking SRK and Global Bollywood SRK, Cinema, and the Citizen: Perils of a Digital Superhero Innocent Abroad: SRK, Karan Johar, and the Indian Diasporic Romance The Don’s World: Designing the Milieu of Shah Rukh Khan Beyond Diasporic Boundaries: New Masculinities in Global Bollywood My Name Is Khan:...
Read MoreBarcelona 2016 Centre for Media & Celebrity Studies – Keynote Speaker P. David Marshall
2016 CMCS Keynote Speaker Professor P David Marshall Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling? Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal Barcelona, Spain July 3 – 5, 2016 Deadline for Abstract Submissions: Thursday, December 31, 2015 Conference URL: http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/barcelona/ “Commodifying the Celebrity-Self: The Peculiar Emergence, Formation and Value of “Industrial” Agency in the Contemporary Attention Economy” by P David Marshall Historically and contextually, individuality has been valued quite...
Read MoreCFP Oberto Conference 2015: Opera and Celebrity
Oberto Conference 2015: Opera and Celebrity Oxford Brookes University Tuesday 8 September 2015 From the castrati of the 18th century and the prima donnas of the 19th century to the star singers of the present day, opera has long been associated with celebrity culture. Although operatic celebrities were never just famous for being famous, many performers – and more recently also some composers and directors – were fêted or notorious for more than their artistic achievements. From the earliest days of public opera, accounts of singers’ love affairs, spectacular feuds or personal antics...
Read MoreCentre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Spring 2015 Issue
Spring 2015 edition of Celebrity Culture and Social Inquiry published Highlights include: Full program of inaugural CMCS international conference at Ryerson University on 27-28, May 2015. Access full program here Registration of CMCS workshop “Scholars as Critics” on May 28, 2015. Deadline April 17, 2015. Select Option C here Coverage of CMCS board members in Huffington Post, Toronto Star, Chatelaine, and Flare Bibliographies research guide Celebrity and Public Persona (2015) by P. David Marshall...
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