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Genre and Video Games - Gothic and Horror
We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Gothic and Horror Fiction” category of the collection.
This panel examines how the dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and class of Latinidad become negotiated by the performing arts. We consider Latine and Latin American performance not as a singular category, but as artistic acts specific to medium and lived experience. We intend to have a global and hemispheric perspective that focus on what performers do, be it live in front of an audience or for a recorded form.
As audience interest in late-night talk shows and glossy print magazines dwindles, a group of internet-based series now provides celebrities the platform to promote their newest project and allegedly “reveal” more of themselves. These series use different techniques to produce revelatory moments tailor-made for social media circulation. First We Feast/Complex’s Hot Ones and Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date maximize cringe, whether by the guest’s physical pain generated by spicy wings or their interpersonal torment produced by Dimoldenberg’s awkward questioning.
Call for papers----Looking for ethical and theological chapter abstracts for an upcoming book in Bloomsbury's Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series....book title: G.I. Joe, Theology, and Co-bra: Knowing (and Believing) Are Half the Battle. Possible chapter ideas and themes available here. Abstracts due 21 October 2024.
Call for Papers
Volume 1, Issue 2
[The Apollonian is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that is published bi-annually.]
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks submissions for its sophomore issue (since its revival). The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within 5000 words), Short Essays (within 1500 words) and Book Reviews (within 2000 words). For the forthcoming issue, the submissions can be interdisciplinary, but must fall within the broader definition of humanities (and this also includes areas such as STEM and medical humanities, new media, visual cultures etc).
Book Reviews:
In her seminal essay on body genres, Linda Williams characterizes embodied responses to film genres, citing shudders and screams as the products of horror and tears as the product of melodrama. Yet a great deal of horror scholarship has investigated the intimate allegorical relations between horror’s monsters and marginalized subject positions, as in canonical works such as Monsters in the Closet (Harry M. Benshoff) and Horror Noire (Robin R. Means Coleman). Studies have further explored how horror media function cathartically as relatively safe encounters with terror for those experiencing cultural prejudice, as seen in Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s Recreational Terror and Heather Petrocelli’s Queer for Fear.
Televisual Dissidence in an Era of Information Warfare: Separatism, Terrorism and the Screen Media in Africa
Editors: Dr. Floribert Patrick C. Endong, University of Dschang, Cameroon
Dr. Augustus Onchari Nyakundi, Chuka University, Kenya
Concept Notes
Voice, Tone, and Affect in US Literature and (Popular) Culture
Special Issue in the European Journal of American Studies
Editors: Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert, Ulla Stackmann
Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025)
This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes, across diverse cultural contexts. These multimodal media not only capture societal perspectives and moods but also play a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions. They can serve as catalysts for reflection on academic practice and societal discourse, fostering a deeper understanding of cultural imprints and trends, highlighting differences and similarities across cultures, raising critical awareness, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity.
Special Issue: Bio-adaptations (Adaptation, Oxford University Press)
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Detective Fiction
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Barbenheimer
(Version française ci-bas)
Old age and aging are biological as well as sociocultural constructs and processes; they cannot be completely separated, but rather they influence each other and get interrelated with the passing of time. As sociocultural constructs, old age, aging and their definition are not immovable concepts and, in fact, vary depending on the different historical, social and cultural contexts. Likewise, the definition and organization of each of the population groups by age are not fixed. For example, for decades, 65+ has been agreed upon by the UN and the WHO, among others, as the beginning of old age; however, market studies propose 50+ and establish two groups: 50+ seniors and 75+ seniors.
Call for Papers - Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2024
Posted on 2024-03-15
Deadline Extended to Aug. 20, 2024
Linguaculture Thematic issue: Pop Culture and Audience Reception in a Transnational Context
Call for Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film
CFP CLOSED! - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Editors’ Introduction
SAMLA 96 Convention, "Seen and Unseen," will be held Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL
Unreal Prisonscapes (panel--in-person)
Summary: Midsommar, Saint Maud, False Positive, Hereditary, The Hole in the Ground, The Witch, etc. All of these A24 horror films feature women in crisis. Most are struggling with their mental health, most are betrayed by their loved ones, most are literally or emotionally isolated, and most are victims of an uncaring world. In all cases, the films end with the physical or figurative destruction of woman. She is insane, incinerated, beheaded, broken, forever haunted ... The question remains, should viewers accept these endings? Should they be viewed exploitative or unnecessarily shocking? Or is there room to view these as a warning?
This panel includes various African American writers who used literature, art, history, or social scientific writings to oppose faulty presentations of an inferior tertium quid, i.e., subhuman capability. This panel welcomes review of writers and artists alike who endeavored through artistic, literary, historical, musical, filmic, or other means to contend with pseudo social scientific Untermensch designation. Writings and other media at various times and through varying genres and artistic forms, fashioned to make a case for full cultural and intellect parity.
The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open.
The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).
CFP: Occult Detectives
Edited by Michael Goodrum, Kris Mecholsky, and Philip Smith
CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX
Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney
PoP Moves, an international network of popular dance researchers, invites proposals for a Special Topics Issue of The Journal of Popular Culture on the topic of mediating popular dance histories. For well over a century, popular dance has been present across changing media technologies: from printed instruction manuals in magazines and newspapers to radio, film, and television to digital platforms and social media, dancing has circulated between different bodies, cultural communities, and across geographical and social boundaries.
Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.
The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open.
The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).
FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH
This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley).
Infrastructure and Abstraction
“The immaterial has become… immaterial.”
– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to
The First Scientific Conference
P O L I S H & R U S S I A N C I N E M A S
Date: 25–26th October 2024
Venue: The Eastern House Show-Window,
Warsaw (Poland), 6 plac Konstytucji
Details are in the attachment below ↓
Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA 2025 in Philadelphia.
This panel is part of NeMLA 2025, which features the theme of (R)EVOLUTION.
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Call for Papers: MIRAJ 13.2
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/miraj-the-moving-image-review-art-journal#call-for-papers
Moving Image Review and Art Journal is currently accepting contributions for inclusion in Issue 13.2 (launching December 2024). The Editorial team is currently interested in receiving scholarly articles and opinion pieces (5000–8000 words), feature articles and interviews (3000–4000 words) from art historians and critics, film and media scholars, curators and, not least, practitioners.
Despite the increased prominence of the Far North in the political and environmental crises of the twenty-first century, this space remains largely absent from Global South studies, an omission that unwittingly reproduces outdated notions of the Arctic as a kind of terra nullius, a region outside both the Global North and the Global South, devoid of people and history. As the effects of climate change continue to undermine perceptions of the Arctic as a region isolated from the modern world, this panel seeks to explore the relationship between the Far North and the Global South, as depicted in popular culture. How might concepts of the Global South prove generative in relation to the histories of the Far North?