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Trinity College Dublin The University of Dublin School of Drama, Film and Music The John Sherlock Assistant Professor in Screenwriting (5-year contract)

An exciting opportunity for applicants who have completed a MFA or PhD in a relevant area, or have professional experience as a screenwriter of national or international standing. Completed applications will demonstrate evidence of research potential and teaching, and the appointee will be expected to contribute to, develop and teach undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Screenwriting and Creative Practice. S/he will be expected to develop links with the film and creative technology industries both in Ireland and overseas. The post is tenable from 1st September, 2013. Further information is available from www.tcd.ie/vacancies and all applications must be made by e-Recruitment.

The closing date for receipt of applications will be no later than 12 noon on 14th February, 2013. Trinity College Dublin is an equal opportunities employer.

Staff on the Film MLitt at the University of Stirling are delighted to congratulate Elaine Dinsmore whose final Creative Project was awarded the first annual Mark Brownrigg Memorial Prize in October, generously sponsored by Intellect Publishing. This prize is given in memory of an inspiring colleague, scholar and lecturer and was awarded to Elaine in recognition of the excellence of her Creative Project entitled:  'Horror: Genre and Narrative'.

If you are attending the MLA's 128th Annual Convention 3-6 January 2013 in Boston, USA please join me, Masoud Yazdani on Saturday at 10.15 at Riverway, Sheraton Hotel at session 485 on Inventing New Journals: The pressures for and against New Scholarly Publications.

My talk will address changes in the publishing landscape from my point of view. I will mention mini monographs but I shall rule them out as not my preferred way forward, I will also rule out edited compilations as poor relations to journals. My aim is to argue that journals are still my preferred medium of academic publishing.

I will explain how a business model for launching many new journals has been developed by my company, intellect that works despite present economic conditions. I argue that the same could be done by other commercial publishers if they were to be content with lower profit margins (ie less than 10%) than what the BIG journal publishers (around 60%) are earning.

I shall also argue that open access or author pays model will not be sustainable in Arts and Humanities.

I shall address the challenges that University Presses face in this changing landscape. I will argue that while greedy BIG publishers avoid launching new journals, the University Presses will not be able to fill the gap for new journals either. Public money in form of subsidy for a university press or departmental support of local journal publishing is drying up.

What I think is needed is small independent journal publishers that work for low profits but are driven by a mission to promote new ideas instead of maximising shareholder value.  My company, intellect is one such a project but we are limited ti a very small niche. We need more companies like us that deal with other academic subject areas in the same way.

You will also be able to hear Myra Seaman of College of Chaleston and Alan Rauch, President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Celia Stall-Meadows recently gave a fascinating interview on American TV station Fox23 where she discusses her new book Why Would Anyone Wear That?: Fascinating Fashion Facts.

You can watch the Interview online here

About the book...

With a blend of wisdom and wit, Why Would Anyone Wear That? explores extreme fashions from around the world. The Victorian era was by no means alone in strange sartorial choices. Throughout history, men and women have turned to clothing and accessories to adorn and accentuate parts of the body. Some of the fashions, like bloomers, were surprisingly functional. Others, like powdered wigs and hobble skirts, were inconvenient and uncomfortable. And a few particularly painful practices could even permanently disfigure the wearer, like brass coils worn in Burma to lengthen the neck and the custom of binding of women’s feet to fit tiny lotus slippers in Song dynasty China. Presenting dozens of the most peculiar fashions, including shoes, hats, jewelry, undergarments, and outerwear, the book provides insightful commentary, placing the garments and accessories in the proper historical, social, and cultural context.

If you’ve ever wondered why the codpiece was created or the leisure suit went out of style, this book will answer that question and many more. Fully illustrated and packed with fun facts, Why Would Anyone Wear That? introduces readers to the fascinating stories behind some of the world’s weirdest fashions.

Shanghai Street Style is The Moment Magazine's Book of the Month. You can read the review here www.themomentmagazine.com.

Shanghai is swiftly cementing its status as a global fashion destination—its first fashion week was in 2011—and this book brings together more than one hundred full-colour photographs showcasing the remarkable diversity of styles seen on its streets. Alongside the photographs are short pieces of critical commentary by Vicki Karaminas and Toni Johnson-Woods, shedding light on the city’s changing culture and how this is expressed through the clothing choices of ordinary city-dwellers going about their daily routines. The result is a stunning street-level look at the trends shaping Shanghai’s fascinating fashion scene, with interesting echoes of East meets West and old meets new. The book will be published in February 2013 and is available to pre-order via our website.

Find out more...

Deadline: March 15, 2013

Guest Editor: Robert Moses Peaslee, Texas Tech University
Assistant Guest Editor: Brendan Kredell, University of Calgary

As media events (Couldry, Hepp & Krotz, 2010; Dayan & Katz, 1992) of all stripe proliferate around the world, a variety of stakeholders jockey for position and advantage in the geographical and cultural contexts chosen to host them. Media events, as Dayan and Katz famously characterized them, were defined in part by their liveness, their physical remoteness from the majority of their “audience,” their interruptive nature, and their status, nonetheless, as pre-planned (prominent examples today would include the Olympic games, the annual film festival at Cannes, the Super Bowl, and music festivals such as Chicago’s Lollapalooza). Many of these events are consistently located, well-established and have assumed a defensive position aimed at maintaining brand identity and prestige. Others, such as the Olympics, change locations, while others (such as Austin, TX’s Fantastic Fest) are ascendant, and still others are nascent at best. Each host community, however, has a unique relationship to their event(s), and each of these relationships provides fertile ground for investigating the role of media events in promoting discourses of community identity, establishing infrastructural and external networks, reifying the importance of being mediated, utilizing the "local” to speak "globally,” and a variety of other processes.

This special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture seeks research articles engaging the media events literature and investigating the relationship between event and location, between location-as-text and location-as-infrastructure, between location and audience, between location and industry, and other relevant relationships, all in the context of networked media structures. Some relevant topics areas include, but are by no means limited to:

Host city branding and image management
Networked media events: the impact of social media
Media events and host city governance
Discourses of place in the media event
“Thereness” and virtuality in the media event
Media events as sites of resistance
Community and ritual
Media events, promotion and (g)local media
Fannish practices in/around the media event
The political economy of the media event
The audience experience: affect, memory, place
Media events and mobility
Comparative analyses of host cities in media event contexts

Prospective authors should submit an abstract of approximately 500 words no later than January 15, 2013 to robert.peaslee@ttu.edu. Abstracts will be reviewed by the editors on a rolling basis until then.

Those authors whose abstracts are accepted will be required to submit full articles of 6000-7000 words (inclusive of notes, appendices, and works cited) no later than March 15, 2013.

Articles will be subject to a blind peer-review process, meaning that acceptance of an abstract does not denote acceptance of the full article. We anticipate accepting approximately 12 abstracts in order to produce an issue of 6-7 articles.

Any revisions required by the reviewers will be expected by mid-June in order to publish the issue in early 2014.

Authors wishing to propose relevant book reviews for the issue should also submit an abstract by January 15, 2013.

Questions and abstracts should be directed to robert.peaslee@ttu.edu.

Also, anyone interested in serving as a reviewer should send a brief letter of interest along with a CV to bkredell@ucalgary.ca.
 

Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education by Joan Lazarus, is being well received by theatre educators. Joan is Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of Theatre Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, and when writing Signs of Change she researched and received contributions from hundreds of theatre educators and teaching artists.  Her book provides practical advice and lesson plans for theatre teachers.

One of the early reviews stated 'This book should be put in the hands of every person who has the inclination and opportunity to make theatre with young people. It is a 'must-have' in theatre-training institutions.' –Julia Perlowski, Reba R. Robinson Outstanding Secondary School Drama Educator.   It seems that educators in Texas agree, with one Texas school district purchasing copies for every theatre teacher in the district, along with key administrators.  Congratulations to Joan on the success of her book and for sharing her passion for theatre education with teachers everywhere.

Paris after Marville & Atget... A new book to be published by Intellect

Peter Sramek's photographs revisit Parisian views by Charles Marville from 1865-77. Join the campaign to support quality production of the book Piercing Time.

The book documents 184 street locations of Paris and will be illustrated with almost 500 images – by Charles Marville (1860s-70s), Eugène Atget (early 1900s) and Peter Sramek (present day). Related historical maps will locate the images accurately. Texts have been written by historians Min K Lee and Shalini Le Gall, as well as Peter Sramek and interviews with Parisians will bring in a contemporary popular view of urban change. Historical images are coming from the Musée Carnavalet with whom Sramek has worked closely and also from the Bibliothèque Historique, Bibliothèque Nationale and MOMA (NYC).

Please visit the website to find out more and help support this project: http://www.indiegogo.com/parisaftermarville