http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7062 <pre>&lt;ss98&lt; at &gt;st-andrews.ac.uk&gt; From: Sarah Soliman &lt;ss98&lt; at &gt;st-andrews.ac.uk&gt; *Frames Cinema Journal* is excited to launch our newest issue, now available online &lt;http://framescinemajournal.com/&gt;. Guest edited by Dr. Keith M. Johnston (University of East Anglia), this themed issue focuses on an examination of promotional materials. In addition to the engaging articles from our contributors, this issue of *Frames* also features a series of interviews with producers and writers in the field of trailers. *Frames Issue 3: Promotional Materials *http://framescinemajournal.com Keith M. Johnston Still Coming Soon? Studying Promotional Materials&lt;http://framescinemajournal.com/article/introduction-still-coming-soon-studying-promotional-materials/&gt; Frederick Greene Working in the World of Propaganda: Early Trailers &amp; Modern Discourses of Social Control&lt;http://framescinemajournal.com/article/working-in-the-world-of-propaganda-early-trailers-modern-discourses-of-social-control/&gt; Leon Gurevitch The Advertising Director as Com</pre> Kenneth Nolley 2013-05-19T20:12:01 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7061 <pre>From: &lt;S.Abbott&lt; at &gt;roehampton.ac.uk&gt; Announcement of addition to the Programme and a reminder that there is still time to register: TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires 7-8 June 2013 The University of Northampton The organisers of TV Fangdom are pleased to announce the following addition to the conference programme: the closing keynote of the conference will be an interview with Simon J. Ashford, currently writer on CBBC’s award-winning drama Young Dracula (2006-2008, 2011-). Simon has written for Robin Hood, Waterloo Road and Twisted Tales, before working on Young Dracula. The session will run 5.30-6.30pm on Saturday 8 June and will include time for questions from the audience. ------- Vampires have always made charismatic characters and with the rise of the VILF and the fangbanger they are more popular than ever. This conference aims to explore the vampire particularly in relation to its presence on television. From Barnabas Collins to the Count von Count, from Mona the Vampire to True Blood</pre> Kenneth Nolley 2013-05-18T16:25:58 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7060 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CFP: Cash and Cinema Culture: The Finances of Exhibition, Distribution, and Preservation 2013 Film &amp; History Conference November 20-24, 2013 Madison Concourse Hotel Madison WI Registration details at http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/conference/index.php Submission deadline: July 1 The creation of cinema culture begins in earnest after production wraps, as films are brought to audiences. Film distributors and theater operators have traditionally provided the bridge between producer and consumer, playing a key role in the promotion, distribution, and screening of both major studio productions and independent films, and influencing theatergoers’ experiences. Technologies and theater configurations have evolved however, from Main Street “movie palaces” and reserved-ticket “road shows,” to drive-ins, suburban multiplexes, and the rise of rented and streamed video, continually transforming the experience of movie-going and inviting reflection on its social</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:57:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7059 <pre>From: Frank Conlon &lt;conlon&lt; at &gt;u.washington.edu&gt; H-ASIA May 10, 2013 Call for papers: Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema-proposed edited volume of essays ******************************************************************* From: H-Net Announcements &lt;announce&lt; at &gt;MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU&gt; Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations - Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema Location: Australia Publication Date: 2013-07-30 Date Submitted: 2013-05-08 Announcement ID: 203605 Book Proposal Salaam Cinema: Representations and Interpretations Celebrating 100 Years of Bombay Cinema Edited by Vikrant Kishore, Amit Sarwal and Parichay Patra On 3 May 1913, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke) presented to India its first silent film, Raja Harishchandra. Phalke proved that film-making can be a lucrative business in India expected to grow to US$ 3 billion by 2014. A century later, from its transition from silent to sound, the term Bollywood, </pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:58:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7058 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Of Money and Mice: Animated Representations of Class, Wealth, and Consumer Culture An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; 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: Of Money and Mice: Animated Representations of Class, Wealth, and Consumer Culture For generations, animation has delivered messages, both subtle and obvious, about class and wealth to its young audiences, helping to form ideas about affluence, lifestyle, and consumerism. According to the New York Times, in 1934: “M. Mouse is poorly paid [and] even the Three Little Pigs earn little.” Did Mickey and Porky enter the middle class along with the rest of America? Is there a default class in animation? How did consumer culture influence the image of class and money on the screen? This are</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:57:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7057 <pre>From: Michael Fitzgerald [fitzrite&lt; at &gt;comcast.net] I taught a similar course at Art Institute. I selected Sturken &amp; Cartwright's Practices of Looking, which I thought it was excellent, but I think it might have been a bit over the students' heads. Perhaps this is more of a grad-school-level text. Depends on the students, I suppose. Michael Ray Fitzgerald, Jacksonville University -----Original Message----- From: H-NET List for Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media [mailto:H-FILM&lt; at &gt;H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:20 PM To: H-FILM&lt; at &gt;H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: Alternative text to Downing et al, "Questioning the Media" From: Thomas B. Grochowski &lt;tgrochowski&lt; at &gt;earthlink.net&lt;mailto:tgrochowski&lt; at &gt;earthlink.net&gt;&gt; I'm teaching a junior-level course in media criticism, and for years I've used the Downing et al text, Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction. I still find it the most useful thing I do for introducing the theoretical perspectives to cover in the course (semio</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:56:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7056 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Larger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; 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 – were superhero films, while a third (The Amazing Spider-Man) finished seventh. Comic book adaptations continue to be as sure a bet as there is for Hollywood, and this year promises more of the same, with the releases of Iron Man 3, Man of Steel, The Wolverine, and Thor: The Dark World. Fifteen superhero films have crossed the $200 million mark in domestic earnings since 2000, and the genre does equally well in</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:55:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7055 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS “Show Me the Money!”: The Economics of Sports on Film An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; History Conference on Making Movie$: 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: “Show Me the Money!”: The Economics of Sports on Film Sports films—tales of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat—speak to audiences of underdogs and everyday heroes, pain and loss, personal bests and national identities. Not simply focused on athletic competition, they deliver adventure, romance, and historical drama, as well, moving across genres to include dramas such as The Blind Side, Seabiscuit, Remember the Titans, and Million Dollar Baby, and comedies such as The Longest Yard (2005), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Blades of Glory, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. Each of the</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:54:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7054 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Cash or Credit: Value and Exchange in Post-Millennial Cinema An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013 Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI) www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013 AREA: Cash or Credit: Value and Exchange in Post-Millennial Cinema Everything has its price, or so the saying goes, but transactions—payments, gifts, barters, loans, bids, debts, and other forms of ‘this for that’—are often more complex than a mere impersonal rendering of cash in exchange for resources or opportunities. From wages and bribes to gift-giving and reciprocity, transactions play a key role in the expression of affection, the construction of identity, the establishment of hierarchy, and the exercise of power. This area, composed of multiple panels, seeks papers that deal with the representati</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:53:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7053 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Money &amp; the Genre Film An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; History Conference on Making Movie$: 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: Money &amp; the Genre Film Genre films—romance, comedy, horror, science fiction, melodrama, noir, and others—are categorized by their use of readily identifiable narrative elements. That use, however, evolves over time, reflecting the cultural, economic, and technological evolution of Hollywood as an institution. What, then, is the impact of money, from budget to box office, on the various forms of genre film? Science fiction – transformed multiple times, since the 1930s, by revolutions in special effects – is the most obvious example. Computer generated imagery allows science-fiction filmmakers to tell stories that would have been impossible</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:47:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7052 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Race-ing the Movie Industry An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013 Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI) www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013 AREA: Race-ing the Movie Industry Money and race infuse nearly every aspect of the movie industry – whether overtly or hidden. Early producers were sons of immigrants, and yet the American dream they portrayed was often an idealized middle-class white version. The movie industry historically assumed a largely white audience, and assessments of financial risk and benefit reflected this. “Race films” were produced for black audiences and actors categorically excluded from mainstream production throughout the first half of the twentieth century and blaxploitation films burned up the screen in the 1970s, but it is now widely assumed that the</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:47:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7051 <pre>From: Cynthia Miller &lt;cymiller&lt; at &gt;tiac.net&gt; CALL FOR PAPERS Historical Film as Commodity: Hyperbolic Alteration (Un)Necessary An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film &amp; History Conference on Making Movie$: 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: Historical Film as Commodity: Hyperbolic Alteration (Un)Necessary Historical films shape history in ways that are different from the written word or even oral retellings, providing vivid imagery and action that brings history “to life.” Often, however, this results in dramatizations that depart, in varying degrees, from what we understand as historical fact, and in the alteration or erasure of details in the process of constructing history-as-spectacle. Is this “hype” – the transformation of historical event into cinematic spectacle – a necessary ingredient for the production of historical</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:46:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7050 <pre>From: Allison Perlman &lt;ajperlman&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; Call for Papers U.S. Intellectual History Conference: Geographies of Ideas Fifth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference and Annual Meeting of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Hosted at the University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA November 1-3, 2013 ***Submission deadline: June 15, 2013*** The Conference Committee of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) invites individual paper and panel proposals for its fifth annual conference to be held at the University of California, Irvine campus on November 1-3, 2013. . S-USIH is thrilled to announce that David A. Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California-Berkeley, will deliver the keynote address. This year’s conference theme is “Geographies of Ideas.” This theme draws attention both to the importance of place in the forging of ideas and intellectual communities and the numerous border crossings—geographic, disciplinary, and theoretic</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-14T10:43:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7049 <pre>From: Paul Cooke &lt;P.Cooke&lt; at &gt;leeds.ac.uk&gt; With apologies for cross posting. Dear all, The Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds and B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies is currently running an AHRC-funded project on the relationship between European 'Heritage Film' and the wider Heritage Industry. We have now launched our project website and would like to encourage colleagues to have a look and comment on the content: http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/screeningeuropeanheritage/ The website also includes a call for papers for the project conference, to be held at Leeds on 12-13 September 2013 (deadline for proposals is 15 June ) Best wishes, Paul Professor Paul Cooke Centenary Chair in World Cinemas Faculty of Arts Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation Leeds Humanities Research Institute 29-31 Clarendon Place University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 (0)113 3433507 -- </pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-09T11:06:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7048 <pre>From: "Jamal Bahmad" &lt;jamal.bahmad&lt; at &gt;stir.ac.uk&lt;mailto:jamal.bahmad&lt; at &gt;stir.ac.uk&gt;&gt; Dear list members, Please find below the provisional programme of an upcoming postgraduate Study Day on Islam in Francophone cultures. The event will take place at the University of Stirling on 20 June 2013. Best regards, Jamal ---- Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day "Allah n'est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures" University of Stirling, 20 June 2013 Keynote Speaker: Philip Dine (National University of Ireland, Galway) PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 9:30 - 10:15 Registration 10:15 - 11:45: Panel 1 Karima Lahrach-Maynard, 'The Representations of Islam in France during the Crusades of Saint Louis and the Egypt Expedition of Bonaparte' Kirsty Bennett, 'Identity Crux: Isabelle Eberhardt, Islam and the Ottoman Empire' Alain Joseph Sissao, 'La présence de l'islam dans la littérature africaine contemporaine' 11:45 - 12:00: Coffee Break 12:00 - 13:00: Panel 2 Amina Easat-Da</pre> Darryl Wiggers 2013-05-09T11:05:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7047 <pre>From: Norman Holland [normholland&lt; at &gt;gmail.com] Subject: Chaplin, THE KID Hi, I've just posted my reading of Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic THE KID at: &lt;http://www.asharperfocus.com/TheKid.html&gt; And you'll find readings of lots of other classics at: &lt;http://www.asharperfocus.com&gt; Enjoy!, Norm Holland normholland&lt; at &gt;gmail.com -- -- </pre> Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L 2013-05-07T15:47:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7046 <pre>Dear H-Net Readers: Twenty years ago some folks called it a "revolution" in reviewing. Indeed, the numbers are astonishing: * over 30,000 book reviews * 350 volunteer review editors * works from almost 1400 publishers * 20,000 reviewers * average review length of 1,000 words * over 200,000 page views a month at H-Net Reviews Reviewing is essential to scholarship and is an honored tradition. H-Net broke down barriers with online reviewing not by displacing existing print outlets, but by expanding and democratizing the practice </pre> H-Net 2013-05-06T16:42:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7045 <pre>From: toumarkino&lt; at &gt;aol.com [toumarkino&lt; at &gt;aol.com] Can the actual travelogues be accessed online and if so, what is the URL? If not, are there any future plans to do so? Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal International -- </pre> Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L 2013-05-05T21:59:56 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7044 <pre>From: Thomas B. Grochowski &lt;tgrochowski&lt; at &gt;earthlink.net&lt;mailto:tgrochowski&lt; at &gt;earthlink.net&gt;&gt; I'm teaching a junior-level course in media criticism, and for years I've used the Downing et al text, Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction. I still find it the most useful thing I do for introducing the theoretical perspectives to cover in the course (semiotics, audience studies, feminism, etc.), but the one weakness of the book is that the most recent edition is nearly 20 years old, and I believe that I need to find something like it but more contemporary. I'm not too crazy about the larger anthologies because they tend to be absurdly expensive. And just to give you a similar title that I used to like: the Dines and Humez Gender Race and Class in Media was a useful supplement and even a possible alternative, but more recent editions have been frankly disappointing. That's the kind of thing I'd like, if I could get one reasonably priced. I have been supplementing the Downing with additional relevant readings,</pre> Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L 2013-05-04T22:19:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7043 <pre>From: Thomas B. Grochowski &lt;tgrochowski&lt; at &gt;earthlink.net&gt; I'm teaching a junior-level course in media criticism, and for years I've used the Downing et al text, Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction. I still find it the most useful thing I do for introducing the theoretical perspectives to cover in the course (semiotics, audience studies, feminism, etc.), but the one weakness of the book is that the most recent edition is nearly 20 years old, and I believe that I need to find something like it but more contemporary. I'm not too crazy about the larger anthologies because they tend to be absurdly expensive. And just to give you a similar title that I used to like: the Dines and Humez Gender Race and Class in Media was a useful supplement and even a possible alternative, but more recent editions have been frankly disappointing. That's the kind of thing I'd like, if I could get one reasonably priced. I have been supplementing the Downing with additional relevant readings, which I would be okay doing again</pre> Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L 2013-05-04T22:55:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.media/7042 <pre>From: Stockdale, Nancy [stockdale&lt; at &gt;unt.edu] A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture The traveling exhibition of the Jack G. Shaheen Archive at New York University is coming to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas! The exhibit will be free and open to the public, housed in the Forum at Willis Library, May 9th – May 23rd, 2013, on the UNT Denton campus. For more information about the exhibit, please visit http://www.apa.nyu.edu/SHAHEEN For more information about the exhibit at UNT, please contact Ms. Diana Leilani Fonner at 940-369-7778 or Dr. Nancy L. Stockdale at stockdale&lt; at &gt;unt.edu. Join our Facebook Page &amp; Event at https://www.facebook.com/AIsForArabAtUnt For a map of the UNT campus (including parking information), please visit http://maps.unt.edu/sites/all/themes/unt/UNT_Campus_Map.pdf From the archive: “The exotic harem maiden. The oil sheikh. The nomadic desert dweller. The enraged terrorist. How have Arabs been portrayed on screen? In comic books and editorial cartoons? In</pre> Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L 2013-05-03T17:05:33 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.studies.media