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Hope the first month of the year has been filled with promise and prospect for all. Please find below the latest CMCS announcements and updates. We are looking forward to supporting the tremendous progress of all celebrity studies scholars and media professionals in 2016. Let us know if there are questions, ideas or suggestions. Email info@cmc-centre.com for all inquires.
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Conference Registration
Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Conference
Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists and celebrities selling?
Barcelona, July 3rd – 5th, 2016
Early-bird registration deadline has been extended to
Monday, February 29, 2016
Confirmed Key Speakers:
Opening Keynote Speaker:
Professor P. David Marshall, Deakin University
Roundtable Key Speakers:
Dr Nathan Farrell, Bournemouth University
Dr Jackie Raphael, Curtin University
Workshop Key Speakers:
Dr Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs, The University of Salford
Dr Celia Lam, University of Notre Dame Australia
Registration for delegates and guests are below the CFP http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/barcelona/ Please keep checking the website for updates on accommodation, venue and travel information. Reviews and acceptance notifications are in progress.
Conference Registration
3rd International Celebrity Studies Conference:
Authenticating Celebrity
Amsterdam, June 28-30, 2016
http://celebritystudiesconference.com/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
• David Giles, University of Winchester
• Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam
• Jo Littler, City University London
• Alice E. Marwick, Fordham University
• Ginette Vincendeau, King’s College London
A Special Issue of the best papers from the conference will be published in Celebrity Studies in 2017.
Registration details: http://celebritystudiesconference.com/registration/
Location details: http://celebritystudiesconference.com/location/
Call for Chapters
Mysterious Ways: U2 and Religion
Bloomsbury Studies in Religion and Popular Music
From Scott Calhoun
I invite proposals for chapters in an edited collection with an interdisciplinary focus on U2 and religion for Bloomsbury’s series on Religion and Popular Music. U2’s art, inclusive of its songs, videos, live concerts, concert films, graphic design, live staging and production design, performance visuals, material artifacts, and activism, has long sought to investigate and present the human experience as also a religious endeavor, with metaphysical and physical concerns, and as such U2’s art is various, extensive, and culturally engaged.
As editor, I’m especially interested in new examinations which broaden and deepen the understanding of U2’s interest in issues of religion, ethics, and spiritually informed identities and practices.
New examinations of U2 and religion might start by pursuing an unconventional line of inquiry into U2 and religion topics. For example, new examinations might start by considering U2 as comprised of artists working in an Anglo-Irish, post-colonial milieu, who, though influenced by close-to-home religious contexts and popular music traditions, sought other cultural experiences and understandings found in intersections of religion and popular music, such as in Caribbean, African-American, North African, and Arabic contexts. (The suggested relationship between Celtic Sean-nós and North African musical traditions as possibly influencing U2, for example, might complicate and enrich an understanding of religion and music in U2’s art.) New examinations might also look at how U2 has employed sectarian and nonsectarian themes to popular success with sectarian and nonsectarian audiences. New examinations might take a musicological interest in examining U2’s songs as joining or disrupting established religious musical traditions. New examinations might focus on understanding and/or critiquing fandom rhetorics and behaviors that approach U2 as a religion. Or, perhaps, new examinations might pursue how and why U2 has framed issues central to both traditional and nontraditional religions by employing or redefining language, forms, and images often identified with a specific religion.
Traditional lines of inquiry can still produce new examinations of U2 and religion of course, and are therefore most welcome.
Religion, when considering U2 for this Bloomsbury volume, should be broadly understood as meaning a system of beliefs, ceremonies, and prescriptions used for worshiping a/the transcendent divine and maintaining a connection with it, which also directs the adherent’s actions in the world.
Studies coming out of, but not limited to, interests in folk, popular, rock, classical, and sacred music traditions, as pertaining to U2, are welcome.
Studies coming out of, but not limited to, disciplinary interests in art, anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies, fan cultures, literature, material cultures, philosophy, psychology, musicology and music performance, religion, rhetorics, sociology, theater, and theology (as broadly understood), as pertaining to U2, are welcome.
Recent essay collections in U2 Studies with some essays on religious topics are Exploring U2 and U2 Above, Across, and Beyond, both edited by Scott Calhoun.
Additional scholarly and bio-critical works on U2 are listed on the U2 Studies Bibliography.
A description of the Bloomsbury Studies in Religion in Popular Music series with other titles is here.
Complete proposals are due by February 1, 2016, and will include an abstract of about 400 words and a current CV, which should include institutional affiliation or independent scholar status, a record of presentations and publications, and contact details. Proposals should be sent to calhouns@cedarville.edu
Notification of acceptance for the collection will be sent by February 15, 2016.
Chapter submissions of 6000-7000 words, including references, are due by October 1, 2016, with anticipated publication of the volume in late 2017.
I invite inquiries about potential chapter proposals at calhouns@cedarville.edu
Scott Calhoun
Professor of English, Cedarville University
Director, the U2 Conference
www.U2conference.com/calhoun
Contributor: Scott Calhoun
Contact: calhouns@cedarville.edu
Call for Papers
“Life-Writing and Celebrity: Exploring Intersections”
Following on from the TORCH/OCLW conference on “Life-Writing and Celebrity“, proposals are invited for the “Life-Writing and Celebrity” panel at the Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
22-26 Aug 2016, Galway, Ireland
Co-convenors:
Sandra Mayer, University of Vienna, Austria, sandra.mayer@univie.ac.at
Julia Lajta-Novak, King’s College London, UK, julia.lajta-novak@kcl.ac.uk
In recent years, life-writing and celebrity studies have separately evolved into vibrant and innovative areas of Humanities research, but the connections between these fields have, so far, been insufficiently addressed. This seminar invites papers that focus on the intersections of life-writing and celebrity in a historical as well as a contemporary English-language literary and cultural context, exploring, among others, ideas of image, persona, self-fashioning, myth, mediatisation and commodification. We will address the influence of these concepts on the writing and reading of lives. Highlighting possibilities of theoretical and methodological cross-fertilisation, the seminar will promote new interdisciplinary research.
We invite proposals of 250 words by 14 February 2016.
Potential themes addressed may include but are not limited to:
- Celebrity lives in the fields of literature, politics, entertainment and public life
- Lives of celebrities in earlier historical periods
- The politics of writing celebrity lives
- Celebrity fan culture and life writing
- The celebrity as life writer (i.e. celebrity memoirs etc)
- Celebrity lives in historical/biographical fiction
- Celebrity lives and cultural/national/gender identity
- Media images of celebrities as life-writing
- Writing celebrity lives ‘from below’
The seminar organisers invite abstracts for individual 15-minute presentations.
We plan to publish selected papers from the conference.
Delegates will be informed whether their paper has been included in the programme by 31 March 2016.
Programme, travel and registration information will be published at
http://www.esse2016.org/
Book Release
Independent Stardom: Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Emily Carman
"Carman upends conventional wisdom in this valuable and informative historical study of the business practices of freelance actresses during the 1930s."—Publishers Weekly
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar narrative of Hollywood stardom receives a long-overdue shakeup in Emily Carman’s new book. Far from passive victims of coercive seven-year contracts, a number of classic Hollywood’s best-known actresses worked on a freelance basis within the restrictive studio system. In leveraging their stardom to play an active role in shaping their careers, female stars including Irene Dunne, Janet Gaynor, Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, and Barbara Stanwyck challenged Hollywood’s patriarchal structure.
Through extensive, original archival research, Independent Stardom uncovers this hidden history of women’s labor and celebrity in studio-era Hollywood. Carman weaves a compelling narrative that reveals the risks these women took in deciding to work autonomously. Additionally, she looks at actresses of color, such as Anna May Wong and Lupe Vélez, whose careers suffered from the enforced independence that resulted from being denied long-term studio contracts. Tracing the freelance phenomenon among American motion picture talent in the 1930s, Independent Stardom rethinks standard histories of Hollywood to recognize female stars as creative artists, sophisticated businesswomen, and active players in the then (as now) male-dominated film industry.
University of Texas Press
Texas Film and Media Studies Series
December 2015 236pp 37 b&w photos 9781477307816 PB £17.99 now only £14.39* when you quote CSL116DWFP when you order
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/Book/52719/Independent-Stardom
Book Release
Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood with OUP now available at:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/srk-and-global-bollywood-9780199460472?cc=us&lang=en&#
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Message from Shah Rukh Khan
Introduction
STARDOM AND GLOBALIZED INDIA
Unthinking SRK and Global Bollywood
SRK, Cinema, and the Citizen: Perils of a Digital Superhero
Innocent Abroad: SRK, Karan Johar, and the Indian Diasporic Romance
The Don’s World: Designing the Milieu of Shah Rukh Khan
Beyond Diasporic Boundaries: New Masculinities in Global Bollywood
My Name Is Khan: Reinventing the Muslim Hero on the Global Stage
Intermedia, Assemblage, SRK
FANDOM: LOCAL RECEPTIONS AND DIGITAL CULTURE
A Shah Rukh Khan Remix: Contemporary Negotiations of Indo-Trinidadian Masculinity
Fandom beyond Borders and Boundaries: Peru in Love with SRK
Shah Rukh Khan, Participatory Audiences, and the Internet
Dollywood: The Pleasures of Playing with Mini Khan
Harlequining Shah Rukh Khan through Media ‘Patches’: Composing the Global Image of an Indian Star in the Italian Mediascape
King of Bollywood? The Construction of a Global Image in Shah Rukh Khanâs Dance Choreography
‘I Don’t Need To Do This, But You’ve Got To Have Passion’: Shah Rukh Khanâs Manifold Economic Activities
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Media Coverage
CMCS Advisory board member, media spokesperson & founder of the growing international The Save Movement Dr Anita Krajnc has been featured on Toronto Star. Read her op-ed commentary here: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2015/12/03/should-i-go-to-jail-for-giving-a-thirsty-pig-water.html
Media Production
CMCS partner Limitless Productions has released its latest show reel SKETCHBOOK. View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Ov1EX3_yc .
Call for Art Submissions
CMCS associate press WaterHill Publishing is now accepting visual art and moving images for CrossBridge journal. Open access fee for the inaugural issue will be waived. Send submissions to Dr Robert Caine and Dr Louis Massey at submit@waterhillpublishing.com
Upcoming Symposium (see CFP for details)
On behalf of CMCS, we wish you an amazing week ahead! Thank you for being a part of our growing media and celebrity studies community. If you would like to share contributions with our research network, you can contact us at info@cmc-centre.com. Visit our website (www.cmc-centre.com) and connect with us on social media. If you do not have Twitter, check out our exciting conversations here: https://storify.com/celeb_studies/january-2016#publicize
Wish you a wonderful start to February!
Dr Samita Nandy
Director, Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS)
  
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