Coisas e Coisas
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - CELEBRITY GOSSIP: INDUSTRY AND IDENTITY (SCMS 2011; SUBMISSIONS DUE 08/10/2010)
Plainly put: without gossip, there would be no celebrities. Indeed, what we say and read about stars and celebrities constitutes their images just as much, if not more, than any film role, television appearance, or commercial endorsement. Long dismissed as the shrill, smutty stepchild of Hollywood, the phenomenal success of Perez Hilton and TMZ reminds us that gossip remains as profitable and pertinent as during its ‘golden age’ spanning the 1930s-40s. This panel thus aims to explore celebrity gossip in its myriad forms: as an industry, a form of media, and a means of identity formation. It will thus pay specific attention to the ways in which gossip not only forms a crucial node in the production of popular entities, but influences and organizes the ways in which those figures are received in both the domestic and international sphere. Read more.
- Independent Television
"Where is independent television production headed? What challenges are new platforms creating? Can producers benefit in the new marketplace or will broadcasters receive all the benefits? Are independent production quotas still relevant? How can small...
- Big Brother Rip: 10 Years Of Celebrity Production
The journal Celebrity Studies seeks 1,000 word articles on the end of Big Brother for a special issue of its "Celebrity Forum section": after 10 seasons, the UK version of Big Brother ended in September 2010. The series has generated a range of academic...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
- Celebrities Studies
Routledge announces the publication of Celebrity Studies from 2010 and is currently accepting papers (see call for papers here). The journal is also currently accepting papers for a collection of upcoming special issues such as: 1) Aging and the Female...
- Graphic Novel And Comic Conference
COMICS: CULTURES & GENRES Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 13-14 April 2010 Comics and graphic novels enjoy a paradoxical relationship with mainstream culture. Their narratives and characters are familiar to mass audiences through their adaptations...
Coisas e Coisas
CELEBRITY GOSSIP: INDUSTRY AND IDENTITY (SCMS 2011; 08/10/2010)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - CELEBRITY GOSSIP: INDUSTRY AND IDENTITY (SCMS 2011; SUBMISSIONS DUE 08/10/2010)
Plainly put: without gossip, there would be no celebrities. Indeed, what we say and read about stars and celebrities constitutes their images just as much, if not more, than any film role, television appearance, or commercial endorsement. Long dismissed as the shrill, smutty stepchild of Hollywood, the phenomenal success of Perez Hilton and TMZ reminds us that gossip remains as profitable and pertinent as during its ‘golden age’ spanning the 1930s-40s. This panel thus aims to explore celebrity gossip in its myriad forms: as an industry, a form of media, and a means of identity formation. It will thus pay specific attention to the ways in which gossip not only forms a crucial node in the production of popular entities, but influences and organizes the ways in which those figures are received in both the domestic and international sphere. Read more.
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- Independent Television
"Where is independent television production headed? What challenges are new platforms creating? Can producers benefit in the new marketplace or will broadcasters receive all the benefits? Are independent production quotas still relevant? How can small...
- Big Brother Rip: 10 Years Of Celebrity Production
The journal Celebrity Studies seeks 1,000 word articles on the end of Big Brother for a special issue of its "Celebrity Forum section": after 10 seasons, the UK version of Big Brother ended in September 2010. The series has generated a range of academic...
- Call For Papers Media And Transport Panel (scms New Orleans): March 2011
This panel seeks papers that interrogate the relationship between media and transport and attempt to rethink media through the lens of transportation and vice versa. At a metaphoric level, transport indicates carrying away, in the sense of physical mobility,...
- Celebrities Studies
Routledge announces the publication of Celebrity Studies from 2010 and is currently accepting papers (see call for papers here). The journal is also currently accepting papers for a collection of upcoming special issues such as: 1) Aging and the Female...
- Graphic Novel And Comic Conference
COMICS: CULTURES & GENRES Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 13-14 April 2010 Comics and graphic novels enjoy a paradoxical relationship with mainstream culture. Their narratives and characters are familiar to mass audiences through their adaptations...