Highly recommend reading: Celebrity map: mapping Georgian celebrity http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/lovebites/mgc/ #Oxford #celebritystudies #starstudies Read more about it in the following blog @18CenturyScobie http://oxfordcelebritynetwork.com/2015/03/26/gillrays-celebrities-online-interactive-map/
Hope you had a wonderful end to June! Last month, we celebrated the launch of the groundbreaking anthology Diverging the Popular Gender and Trauma, AKA the Jessica Jones Anthology (University of Calgary Press). The live screenings and chat with editors and authors Mary Grace Lao, Kiera Obbard, Pree Rehal, and Jessica Bay, along with filmmaker Christine Sawka Fraser, are now archived here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFW9Tbw8cQ0 Upcoming Events…
From Photini Vrikki CFP: Who sets the Public Agenda? The Cultural and Creative Industries in the era of populism The intense and accelerated political shifts that have marked the global political landscape in recent years have been met with a rise of voices from the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). Celebrities, singers, actors and industry representatives have…
“I highly recommend Ellis Cashmore for his ground-breaking publication, Celebrity Culture (Routledge). In its 3rd edition, the book equips students, researchers, and the public with urgent insights on fame. In radically pushing the boundaries of normative understandings around 21st-century celebrities, Cashmore identifies ironies, illusions, and ideological dilemmas of stardom. He leaves readers with a reality check…
CFP: Edited Volume on Subalternity and Superheroism by Rafael Ponce-Cordero Working Title Can the Subaltern Be a Superhero? The Politics of Non-Hegemonic Superheroism Description Superheroes are, by definition, guardians of law and order, i.e. of the status quo. Not coincidentally, the majority of them—and certainly the most famous ones—are male, straight, and white. Yet there…
Keeping up with the Windsors: Celebrity Culture and the British Royal Family Round-table discussion and Q&A, 29th August 2017, 6.30pm. Media Cafe, BBC New Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, W1A 1AA. Tickets are free but attendees must be on the guestlist and will need to bring I.D. to be signed into the premises at reception….
