Posts Tagged "spectacle"

CFP Special Issue: Meghan Markle and the British Royal Family

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 | 0 comments

From Hannah Yelin This CfP may be of interest to members: Call for Papers Special Issue: Meghan Markle and the British Royal Family Deadline for submitting abstracts November 30th 2018 Editors: Hannah Yelin and Laura Clancy The Journal of Gender Studies JGS supporting Editor: Anita Biressi This CfP is for a proposed special issue with The Journal of Gender Studies. Authors will be informed in February after the journal’s next board meeting. Please email abstracts of under 400 words and a short author bio to l.clancy2@lancaster.ac.uk. ***** On 19th May 2018, Prince Harry married Meghan...

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Book Release: The Cinema of Robert Altman

Posted on Feb 29, 2016 | 0 comments

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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