2016 Story Money Impact: Scholarship Application
Scholarship Application From Dahne Jobson Chair, Toronto Community Media Network (Independent Community Television Toronto Steering Committee) 2016 Story Money Impact The Inspirit Foundation is excited to offer 4 scholarships for young media-makers to attend this year’s Media That Matters: Story Money Impact at the Hollyhock Institute on B.C.’s Cortes Island from June 1-5, 2016. What is it? Media That Matters: Story Money Impact is a practical workshop for media-makers, principled funders, and highly motivated activists who want to ensure their work makes a difference. This intimate...
Read MoreBook 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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From Dennis Cutchins <dennis_cutchins@byu.edu> Call for Contributors: Hooray for Hollywood: A Cultural Encyclopedia of America’s Dream Factory, edited by Bob Batchelor, Norma Jones, and Kathleen Turner Hollywood has long influenced popular culture, both as a source of entertainment and as the subject of legends. Written for high school and college students, as well as intelligent general readers yearning for factual, well-research and well-written material, this encyclopedia examines the history and mystery of Hollywood, focusing on the presence of Hollywood in the American...
Read MoreCelebrity Chat 2016 Call for Short Films and Videos
2016 CALL FOR SHORT FILMS and VIDEOS Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling? Red Room, Four Points by Sheraton Barcelona Diagonal Barcelona, Spain July 3rd – 5th, 2016 Are you a researcher, filmmaker, broadcaster, videographer or screen image artist critically exploring celebrity culture and journalism in media? Receive an exclusive screening opportunity of your work and eligibility for $100 CMCS screen award at the Celebrity Chat (CC) Screening session in Barcelona, Spain! The screening will offer an international platform for creative researchers,...
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...
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