We are super excited for the 2016 Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) #BGCS15 awards for best celebrity studies conference paper & Celebrity Chat video! We cannot wait to announce the award winners next month. Our special thanks to conference chairs Dr. Jackie Raphael and Celia Lam. Thanks to Nick Wright http://www.pcilasercuttingengraving.com.au/index.htm for designing the…
Media and Publication Updates Dr Samita Nandy’s review of Professor Sean Redmond’s book Celebrity and Media has been published at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2016.1187867. We are truly proud of Redmond’s exceptional contribution to the field. In other news, CMCS Director Dr Samita Nandy was covered in Vancouver Sun Media’s 24 Hours. Read “Celebrity 101” at eedition.vancouver.24hrs.ca/epaper/viewer.aspx (May 25, 2016,…
“New ways ever free”: David Bowie, Landscapes & Heritage Symposium, December 2, 2016 Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France Station to Station. In the wake of Bowie’s passing, images and voices have multiplied to evoke the diverse landscapes of his work, from the musical styles to the characters he imagined to the many facets of a…
CMCS Director Dr Samita Nandy was covered in Sun Media’s 24 Hours on April 6, 2016. Read “Annoying Much? Why do these celebs attract so much trolling?” at http://www.pressreader.com/canada/24-hours-toronto/20160406/281668254125570. Dr Nandy was covered again on April 19, 2016. The full story is given in “Worst. Celeb. Advice. Ever!”: http://www.toronto24hours.ca/2016/04/19/worst-celeb-advice-ever. Special thanks to reporter Brad Hunter…
From Shanisa Emmons (Bloomsbury Publishing) Elizabeth Taylor: A Private Life for Public Consumption Ellis Cashmore “Examines Taylor with the thoroughness of a jeweller with a loupe” – The Sunday Times “In the cigar-chomping Hollywood of the Fifties … how did Taylor manage to call the shots? Ellis Cashmore’s book is an impressive answer … [His]…
After Ghomeshi: Lessons in Media Uses and Abuses A Media@McGill round-table discussion Free and open to the public Wednesday, April 13, 2016, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Leacock 232, McGill University On March 24, 2016 former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted of all charges in a highly mediatized sexual assault trial. Apart from its…
CFP Indian Popular Culture Area 2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare from Thursday-Sunday, October 6-9 Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Proposals will be accepted from any area relating to Indian Popular culture Potential topics could include, but are not limited to: Star Studies: What makes the Star Culture of India different…
Free postage to UK customers We hope the following titles will be of interest to you. Independent Stardom Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System Emily Carman “Carman upends conventional wisdom in this valuable and informative historical study of the business practices of freelance actresses during the 1930s.”—Publishers Weekly During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio…
‘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…
Call for Chapters — Mysterious Ways: U2 and Religion — Bloomsbury Press Call for Chapters Mysterious Ways: U2 and Religion Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music Edited by Scott Calhoun I invite proposals for chapters in an edited collection with an interdisciplinary focus on U2 and religion for Bloomsbury’s series on Religion and Popular…
