CFP: Wizards on Film/TV/Video & Computer Games (9/15/06; collection)
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REEL WIZARDS: REPRESENTATIONS OF MAGIC AND MAGIC USERS IN FILM
Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2006
In J. R. R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS, the Hobbits are warned, "Do no=
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meddle in the affairs of wizards"; yet, few readers today, in a time when
the wizard features so prominently in both popular culture and scholarship,
would choose to follow this admonition. Accepting this as a given, proposal=
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are now being accepted for an essay collection investigating the
representation of magic-wielding figures in electronic multimedia.