Call for Papers on the Academy Awards 2013
From Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) CALL FOR PAPERS: All About Oscar, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Academy Awards A special themed issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN Deadline for abstracts: 8th January 2014 The 85th Academy Awards, held on Sunday 24th February 2013, was watched by 40 million Americans and hundreds of millions more in over 200 countries worldwide. It is the biggest media event of the year, blasted by some as nothing more than self-indulgent nonsense, praised by others as an important cultural...
Read MoreCFP ‘Film Festival Activism: Actors, Spectators, Social Change’
Dear Celebrity Culture Readers, Our understanding of stable forms of identity and relations often occurs during the production and reception of blockbuster films and fame-based practices. Dr Sonia Tascon and Dr. Tyson Wils appropriately point out that film festivals were originally established to subvert the dominance of Hollywood, promote national cinemas, and empower social change. Tascon and Wils prompt us to consider critical engagement with the idea of ‘social change’ in human rights / activist film festivals and ask: how do these film festivals encourage the spectator...
Read MoreThe Exotic ‘Other’ in Hollywood
Dear Readers, As you may know, Pitbull has teamed up with former Miss World and Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra for new single ‘Exotic’. For some, Marshall McLuhan’s “global village” may appear closer to a reality in this world. However, a close reading of the video reveals that the production imagines breaking the world into pieces. Bollywood is a cultural construct in which the place ‘Bombay’ and its lived experiences often disappear in global formats of productions. It appears to be changing in unique ways that favour multiculturalism. At the...
Read MoreFrom Vogue Magazine to Heroes in History
Dear Readers, May is coming to an end! Hope you had a powerful month immersed with distinctive moments, open minds, and new creative forces! My final edition for this month will start where one of my latest posts ended – celebrating Mother Earth on the occasion of Mother’s Day. In our everyday life, some of the finest, earthly connections are made through eco-friendly fashion, green diet, and home décor. The driving forces in these creative connections are often manifested through glitz and glamour in celebrity culture. At the same time, material creations symbolize and reinforce some of...
Read MoreLarger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office
From H-NET List for Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media Larger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013 Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI) www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013 AREA: “Larger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office The superhero genre has been one of Hollywood’s most lucrative since 2000. The top two domestic money-earners in 2012 – The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises...
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