Posts Tagged "sexuality"

Call for Papers: Starring Tom Cruise

Posted on Jun 19, 2018 | 0 comments

By Sean Redmond Call for Papers, Edited Collection: Starring Tom Cruise Tom Cruise is one of the most successful Hollywood film stars of the last 35 years, with a cumulative worldwide box office of nearly $8 billion dollars. His star image moves across genres and forms, is product and franchise, and is also connected to ‘serious’ cinema through his work with auteurs. His private life has warranted a great deal of attention whether it be through his connection to scientology, his numerous failed marriages, or the ‘queer space’ he is placed within through fan work and gossip mongering....

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CFP Women in Hollywood

Posted on Mar 20, 2018 | 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, DeMontfort University, Leicester Date of...

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Porn Studies CFP Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories

Posted on Oct 30, 2016 | 0 comments

The following CFP might be of interest to media & celebrity studies scholars examining adult films and stardom Porn Studies, special issue, Porn on the Couch: Sex, Psychoanalysis, and Screen Cultures/Memories In a letter he penned to his friend Wilhelm Fleiss, dated August 1, 1899, Sigmund Freud made an uncanny observation: “I am accustoming myself to the idea of regarding every sexual act as a process involving four persons.” What could he have meant by this suggestive remark regarding how a sexual act mediates desire between subjects and objects? How might we expand upon it as...

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CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective

Posted on Sep 30, 2016 | 0 comments

CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series) Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2016 Full name / name of organization: Labex ICCA / IRCAV (Université Paris 3) Contact email: sebastien.francois@rocketmail.com CFP: Textual Reception – Exploring Audiences’ Writing Practices from a Gender Perspective (special issue of Genre en séries / Gender in Series) Whether through fan mail sent to celebrities and the popular press, critical pieces, derivative...

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CFP: Special Issue on Beyoncé, Popular Music and Society

Posted on Jul 19, 2016 | 0 comments

Popular Music and Society Call for Papers Special Issue on Beyoncé Guest-edited by Marquita Smith, Kristin McGee, and Christina Baade Submissions are invited for a special issue of Popular Music and Society on the musical and cultural impact of Beyoncé. The 2016 launch of Lemonade and the Formation World Tour–along with Beyoncé’s numerous other mass-mediated performances, musical releases, and actions–inspire not only informal evaluations of her music and public persona, but also scholarly, in-depth investigations of the values, aesthetics, and cultural significance...

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