The Writing and Rhetoric in Popular Culture area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association seeks panel and paper proposals for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference, this year to be held Friday, October 3 through Sunday, October 5, 2014, at the JW Marriot Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN.

Please submit paper proposals for the standing "Film Studies" session at the 2014 PAMLA conference on any aspect of film studies. Papers on the intersection of film and the conference special theme, "Familiar Spirits," exploring film in relation to the familiar, familial, and the commonplace, and/or the paranormal, strange, and uncanny will be most welcome.

Be sure to submit your proposal to the PAMLA website by the May 15 deadline: http://www.pamla.org/2014

The conference is sure to be a wonderful one, given the lovely weather in Riverside, California in the fall, and the friendly and welcoming culture of PAMLA.

We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.
Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .doc or .rtf). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
Please follow the 2009 updated MLA style.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field.
Copyright for published articles remains with the author.

The Midwest Popular Association / American Culture Association conference will be held at the JW Marriott Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN, this October 3-5 (Friday-Sunday), 2014.
The British Popular Culture area is open to essays on a wide range of topics, but is particularly interested in essays that focus on:
• Themes and/or Popularity of British television (Downton Abbey, Luther, Doctor Who, etc.),
• British/American TV adaptations,
• British literary or cinematic alt-history, especially steampunk,
• British filmmakers (Andrea Arnold, Steve McQueen, Mike Leigh, Shane Meadows, Ben Wheatley, etc.),
• British comics creators (Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Frank Quitely, Garth Ennis, etc.)

The online anthology Poems for Teens is looking for original, unpublished poems aimed at 12- to 18- years-olds that deal with various aspects of teenagers such as (but not limited to): Stress, Friendship, Drug Abuse, Abortion, Depression, Rape, Mental Illness, Cheating and Break Up and any other sub-topics you can think of: poems for kids & youth, good illustrations, teenagers to review poems, published books of children's poetry for review, articles, criticism and interviews on teens' poetry.

Much has been written about the development of the modern, post-industrial city in relation to the evolution of new technologies of visual representation. The moving image, in a sense, could not have been born anywhere other than amidst the hustle and bustle of metropolitan existence. The merging of urban theory with film studies has produced fascinating work examining this relationship; exploring the ways that film portrays the city, as well as the ways in which the city animates and influences the world of film.