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I’m Already Dead: Essays on The CW’s iZombie and Vertigo’s iZOMBIE
Editors
Ashley Szanter, Weber State University
Jessica K. Richards, Weber State University
Project Overview
Call for Chapter Submissions: Making Stars: Biography and Eighteenth-Century Celebrity
LITERACIES ACROSS MODALITIES
Popular Culture and Film
Dear colleagues,
Things That Go Bump in the North: Canadian Horror Media
CALL FOR PAPERS
Our Monsters, Ourselves
An area of multiple panels for the 2018 Film & History Conference:
Citizenship and Sociopathy in Film, Television, and New Media
November 7-12, 2018
Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA)
Full details at: www.filmandhistory.org/conference
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2018
The journal is a mix of articles and is keen to accept submissions from people who want to write about fantasy, horror and science fiction. Our focus is primarily the former, but our readers have interests across all three genres.
Academic articles for the BFS Journal should be between 2500 and 6000 words. We prefer nearer the former, as this is about the size of a conference paper. References in the text should be (Author, Date of Edition: Page Number) with a full publication listing for the bibliography given for each article at the end. Please don't use footnotes in your submissions.
All contributors are sent a complimentary copy of the print version and the electronic version.
The Electric Guitar in American Culture
NEW (revised) Deadline: June 15 2018
Conference dates: October 12-14, 2018
https://sites.google.com/view/electricguitaramericanculture/home
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX USA
It is a pleasure to invite scholars, performers, fans, and the general public to attend and participate at “The Electric Guitar in American Culture” on October 12-13-14, 2018, in Lubbock, Texas. The conference is organized by the Vernacular Music Center at the School of Music at Texas Tech University.
Call for Papers: Theology and Prince
Editors: Rev. Katrina E. Jenkins (kejenkins@rollins.edu) & Jonathan H. Harwell (jharwell@rollins.edu)
Theology and Pop Culture is currently seeking contributions for a potential edited volume of essays on theology and the life, music, and films of Prince Rogers Nelson. Essays should be written for academics, but avoid jargon in order to be accessible for the layperson.
Potential ideas include but are not limited to:
We Want the Wilderness: Essays Examining Franchise Storytelling
We contend that inventive storytelling within media franchises, such as Star Wars and Marvel, becomes hampered by the commercial needs of business on one side and the fans’ desires for continuity and references—in the forms of callbacks—on the other. We Want the Wilderness: Essays Examining Franchise Storytelling will look for moments when content producers were able to skillfully negotiate (or avoid all together) these dual pressures or, conversely, when these pressures created insurmountable obstacles to storytelling.