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Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
Friday, 24 May 2013

A complex definition of Italian cinema has emerged since the 1990s, leading to a re-thinking of the current and varied manifestations of national cinemas and media. This CFP intends to contribute to the debate by: considering the role of international co-productions; exploring why films produced outside Italy fit into notions of Italian cinema; examining whether foreign directors producing films in Italy could be factored into a larger definition of Italian cinema; and studying filmmakers of the Italian diaspora.

Proposals are invited on, but not restricted to, the following:
 
• International co-productions
• Bollywood, Nollywood and Hollywood productions in Italy
• Regional Film Commissions productions
• New digital media, web-based visual texts
• Italian cinema outside of Italy
• Filmmakers of the Italian diaspora
• talian filmmakers working on non-Italian-language films
 
Send proposals to the Editor, Flavia Laviosa, at flaviosa@wellesley.edu
 
1. 500-word abstract outlining: the topic, critical approach, and theoretical bases of the proposed article;
2. relevant bibliography and filmography;
3. 200 word bio-data followed by a detailed list of the author’s academic publications.
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IQ blog update
Catalan Beauty and the Transnational Beast
Friday, 17 May 2013

On May 9th Intellect launched the blog component to our new project IQ (see our feed). As of today our latest article is available to read so please go and take a look.

http://intellectquarterly.com/2013/05/17/catalan-beauty-and-the-transnational-beast/

Catalan Beauty and the Transnational Beast
'How many ways can you describe the same place? Celestino Deleyto and Gemma López look at facets of how Barcelona is represented and experienced, focussing on two relatively recent films that take the city as a driving force of their narrative: Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful (2010)'

http://intellectquarterly.com/

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Call for Contributions: Iranian independent cinema
Thursday, 9 May 2013

Guest Editor: Parviz Jahed

Articles are invited for publication in an edited volume of Film International on the topic of Iranian independent cinema. Independent Iranian cinema consists of the low budget Iranian films with limited affiliation to the government and its financial resources that are critical of the mainstream commercial cinema. It includes the works of notable Iranian directors like Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Mohsen Makhbalbaf, and Asghar Farhadi as well as the underground movies that are produced and distributed without the permission of the authorities and are subject to censorship and intense pressure of the government.The contribution this journal strives to make is to generate critical debate regarding the historical and current situation facing Iran's independent cinema and its major figures, the code of practice of the film censorship and the barriers facing independent cinema in Iran.

 

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Television for Women International Conference
University of Warwick 15th-17th May 2013
Thursday, 2 May 2013

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Call for Papers: Game Sound & Music
Tuesday, 23 April 2013

The Soundtrack journal is soliciting articles for a special issue devoted to sound and music in games. How is the soundtrack of games similar to or different from that of film or other time-based image? What new approaches to loop-based composition have been developed? How does sound scale, from smart phone game apps to immersive home environments? What are the implications for pedagogy, when sound design programs have traditionally been developed in relation to film and video? These and other questions are fair game for this special themed issue.

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New 2014 Journals
Friday, 5 April 2013
Intellect is delighted to announce our 2014 journals.
 
International Journal of Fashion Studies
 
By opening up the field of fashion studies to international non-English speakers the journal will not only shed new light on some existing key themes of debate but it will also bring to the fore topics and issues heretofore unattended.
 
 
Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion
 
This journal is the first to exclusively focus on men’s dress and topics of gender; identity, sexuality, culture, marketing and business will be discussed.
 
 
Clothing Cultures
 
We are all invested at some level in the production and consumption of clothing. This journal intends to embrace issues and themes that are both universal and personal, addressing [and dressing] us all.
 
 
Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
 
Edited by Joseph H. Hancock II the journal will provide an interdisciplinary environment for fashion academics and practitioners to publish innovative scholarship in all aspects of fashion and popular culture.
 
 
Journal of Illustration
 
This is the first journal to provide an international forum for scholarly research and investigation of a range of cultural, political, philosophical, historical, and contemporary issues, in relation to illustration.
 
 
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
 
Edited by Paul Gladston the journal seeks to explore the relationship between contemporary art and Chinese cultural identity in its broadest sense.
 
 
Dance, Movement and Spiritualties
 
Research into spirituality receives comparatively little attention in Western dance practices. This journal provides a platform for practitioners and researchers who are actively working with spirituality at the centre of their work.
 
 
Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
 
The journal aims to achieve some balance between discussing an individual cultural/artistic product(s) and using one of many social-science urban approaches.

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=225/

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EXTENDED CFP: The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (popcaanz)
DEADLINE: Tuesday 30 April 2013
Wednesday, 3 April 2013

The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand
(popcaanz) is hosting its 4th Annual International Conference to be
held at the Sofitel Hotel in Brisbane Australia on June 24-26, 2013.
Individual and group papers that explore all aspects of popular culture
and the everyday are invited. Please send a short biography and
abstract (no more than 200 words) to the area chairs listed below.
 

Animation: Deborah Szapiro: animation@popcaanz.com
Anime and Manga: Craig Norris: anime@popcaanz.com
Architecture: Derham Groves: architecture@popcaanz.com
Biography and Life Writing: Giselle Bastin: biography@popcaanz.com
Business: business@popcaanz.com
Creative Writing: Karen Simpson Nikakis: writing@popcaanz.com
Cyber Culture: John Lenarcic: cyber@popcaanz.com
Design: Jacquie Kasunic: design@popcaanz.com
Fashion: Vicki Karaminas: fashion@popcaanz.com
Fiction: Rachel Franks: fiction@popcaanz.com
Film: Bruce Isaacs: film@popcaanz.com
Food Studies: Toni Risson: food@popcaanz.com
Gender and Queer: Anita Brady: gender@popcaanz.com
Girlhood Studies: Juliette Peers: girlhood@popcaanz.com
Gothic: Lorna Piatti-Farnell: gothic@popcaanz.com
Graphic Novels and Comics: Paul Mountfort: comics@popcaanz.com
History: Hsu-Ming Teo: history@popcaanz.com
Law: Jason Bainbridge: law@popcaanz.com
Music: Ed Montano: music@popcaanz.com
Performance: Sue Osmond: performance@popcaanz.com
Radio and Audio Media: Martin Hadlow: radio@popcaanz.com
Religion: Sean Durbin: religion@popcaanz.com
Science: Bill Lott: science@popcaanz.com
Sound, Voices and the Everyday: Norie Neumark:
voices@popcaanz.com
Sports: sports@popcaanz.com
Television: Rosser Johnson: tv@popcaanz.com
Textiles: Denise Rall: textiles@popcaanz.com
Toys and Games: Jason Bainbridge: toys@popcaanz.com
Visual Arts: Adam Geczy: visualarts@popcaanz.com

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CFP: Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies
Special issue "Conflict and crisis in elite sport"
Monday, 18 March 2013

Call for papers

Special issue of the Catalan Journal of Communication and Cultural Studies 6.2

Conflict and crisis in elite sport: media, ideology, identity and politics in an era of hyper-sportisation

Guest editors: Verner Møller (Department of Sports Sciences, University of Aarhus) and Bernat López (Department of Communication Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili).

Professional elite sport and the closely related phenomenon of media and spectator sport are among the most global, pervasive, influential, and visible social phenomena across countries, cultures, and social strata. Modern societies seem to be clearly demanding more sport, not less (Dimeo, 2007: 138). The sportisation process (Maguire, 2007) seems to be entering a new era in which more is at stake concerning elite and spectator sports: nationalism, identity, geopolitics, the leisure economy, corporate capitalism, and the continuous (re)definition of the boundaries of human performance and capabilities. Despite commercial sport being increasingly an object of attention for social theory and social research, their expanded relevance calls for further and closer scrutiny. This proposed special issue intends to contribute to this.

For more information http http://catalanjournal.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/cfp-elite-sport/

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Novel Thoughts: A conversation with author Susan Beth Lehman
By Trevor Hogg for Flickering Myth
Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Trevor Hogg from Flickering Myth has done a profile on Susan Beth Lehman. They discuss a variety of topics, tanging from what prompted Lehman to write Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again again to her opinions on film directing versus theatre directing.

Lehman discussed how the skill sets need for film and theatre directing differed, and how by working in both mediums a director can improved their work overall.

To read the full profile please visit Flickering Myth.

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The Soul of Shanghai Fashion
An interview with Toni Johnson-Woods
Tuesday, 12 March 2013

"Milan and Paris would probably spring most readily to mind if someone was to name the fashion capitals of the world.

But one Queensland academic is on a mission to prove that the most interesting new trends and styles can be found on the streets of emerging fashion cities.

Dr Toni Johnson-Woods of the University of Queensland recently spent 10 days in Shanghai taking photos and talking to passers-by about their clothes and fashion sense for a book she co-authored called Shanghai Street Style.

Dr Johnson-Woods is talking to Warren Boland about her book, about what our clothes tell us about ourselves and about whether she plans to write a similar book based on Brisbane"

Listen to the interview here.

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