Vampires, Zombies, Bodices, and Perps: Genre in Creative Writing
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/06/04/vampires-zombies-bodices-and-perps-genre-in-creative-writing
deadline for submissions: September 30, 2019
full name / name of organization: Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
contact email: abbybardi@gmail.com
Genre fiction (such as fantasy, sci-fi, suspense and mystery, thrillers, historical romance) has often been discouraged in creative-writing courses, even outlawed. However, in recent years, the popularity of genre fiction in the marketplace has challenged the boundaries of literary writing. This panel will consider some of the following questions: How do challenges to the traditional boundaries of genre impact the teaching of creative writing? How might fiction, drama, and even poetry address these challenges? How can the conventions and tropes of genre fiction be used fruitfully in literary writing? Both writers who work in or with particular genres and writers who have resisted the lure of genre are encouraged to share their work and ideas.
Last updated June 5, 2019
Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
CFP Interwar Mysteries: The Golden Age and Beyond (Spec Issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection) (10/12/2018)
Interwar Mysteries: The Golden Age and Beyond (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/07/interwar-mysteries-the-golden-age-and-beyond-theme-issue-of-clues-a-journal-of
deadline for submissions: October 12, 2018
full name / name of organization: Elizabeth Foxwell / Clues: A Journal of Detection
contact email: clues@elizabethfoxwell.com
Interwar Mysteries: The Golden Age and Beyond (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Guest editor: Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)
“These things never happened before the War.”
—Mr. Wetheridge, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers
Guest editor: Victoria Stewart (University of Leicester)
“These things never happened before the War.”
—Mr. Wetheridge, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), by Dorothy L. Sayers
Although the period between the World Wars is known as the Golden Age of traditional mystery fiction, other new forms such as the hard-boiled subgenre, true crime, and noir also emerged, often reflecting a grimmer reality. This theme issue of Clues will feature articles that examine this important crossroads in mystery, detective, and crime fiction.
Potential topics of interest include the following:
- Country house and village mysteries
- Twists to the traditional cozy
- True crime and mystery
- Serials, short stories, and anthologies
- Debates, controversies, and causes célèbres
- Hard-boiled mystery in the pulps
- Presence/effects of World War I in mysteries of the period
- Theater and film adaptations that reflect new approaches
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and 4–5 keywords, and be between 15 to 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Times or Times Roman font with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the MLA Handbook (8th ed., 2016), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized Works Cited list.
Submit manuscripts to:
Janice M. Allan, Clues executive editor, University of Salford, email: J.M.Allan at salford.ac.uk
Address questions to:
Elizabeth Foxwell, Clues managing editor, email: clues at elizabethfoxwell.com
Connect with Clues on Facebook, or visit the Clues Web site at
https://sites.google.com/site/cluesjournal
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
CFP Still Laughing: Ancient Comedy and Its Descendants (9/30/2015; NeMLA Hartford 3/17-20/2016)
NeMLA 2016 Panel "Still Laughing: Ancient Comedy and Its Descendants"
full name / name of organization: Claire Sommers (the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barry Spence (University of Massachusetts)
contact email: csommers@gc.cuny.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63189
Please submit a 300 word abstract to https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15714 by September 30, 2015
Aristotle in his Poetics outlines his theory of tragedy and gives readers a framework for assessing and understanding the genre; his treatise providing the equivalent analysis of comedy has sadly been lost, and as a result, it is difficult to find a unified theory of ancient comedy. Perhaps the closest we have is Democritus’ statement that “Laughter is a complete conception of the world.” Centuries later, Bakhtin would elaborate upon this sentiment by claiming that the carnivalesque comedy allows for dialogue between multiple genres and voices in order to create a world in which societal structures are upended. Though ancient comedy evolved from Aristophanes’ examples to Menander’s New Comedy and finally to the Roman comedies of Plautus and Terence, all of them borrow stylistically from contemporaneous works in order to create a world where traditional hierarchies are suspended and inverted.
This panel will explore the tropes of ancient comedy and their influence on more modern literature, drama, satire, film, and theory. Possible approaches include:
The goal of this session will be to understand humor through its Classical antecedents, tracing the evolution of comedy from its ancient origins to the present day. By contemplating the emergence of ancient comedy and its enduring effect on subsequent literature, drama, film, and theory, this panel will synthesize its own theory of ancient comedy and determine why we are still laughing so many centuries later.
By web submission at 07/29/2015 - 01:12
full name / name of organization: Claire Sommers (the Graduate Center, CUNY) and Barry Spence (University of Massachusetts)
contact email: csommers@gc.cuny.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63189
Please submit a 300 word abstract to https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15714 by September 30, 2015
Aristotle in his Poetics outlines his theory of tragedy and gives readers a framework for assessing and understanding the genre; his treatise providing the equivalent analysis of comedy has sadly been lost, and as a result, it is difficult to find a unified theory of ancient comedy. Perhaps the closest we have is Democritus’ statement that “Laughter is a complete conception of the world.” Centuries later, Bakhtin would elaborate upon this sentiment by claiming that the carnivalesque comedy allows for dialogue between multiple genres and voices in order to create a world in which societal structures are upended. Though ancient comedy evolved from Aristophanes’ examples to Menander’s New Comedy and finally to the Roman comedies of Plautus and Terence, all of them borrow stylistically from contemporaneous works in order to create a world where traditional hierarchies are suspended and inverted.
This panel will explore the tropes of ancient comedy and their influence on more modern literature, drama, satire, film, and theory. Possible approaches include:
- analyzing comedy’s relationship with other ancient genres
- examining ancient comedy’s influence on post-Classical works
- using modern critical and humor theory to analyze classical comedy
- exploring the comic and satirical treatment of Greco-Roman subject matter in post-Classical literature
The goal of this session will be to understand humor through its Classical antecedents, tracing the evolution of comedy from its ancient origins to the present day. By contemplating the emergence of ancient comedy and its enduring effect on subsequent literature, drama, film, and theory, this panel will synthesize its own theory of ancient comedy and determine why we are still laughing so many centuries later.
By web submission at 07/29/2015 - 01:12
CFP Function and/or Role of the Past in Detective Fiction (9/30/2015; NeMLA Hartford 3/17-20/2016)
Conference Session on Detective Fiction
full name / name of organization: NorthEastern Modern Language Association
contact email: bastet801@att.net
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63212
Recent examinations of the functioning of the past within detective fiction – whether going back in time to reconstruct a crime or examine a larger criminal pattern/ trend in a past period – raise the question of how “dead,” to borrow Faulkner’s famous line, the past is. Whether considered from the standpoint of physics (time as a function of space and the expansion of the universe) or, as may seem more obvious, history, time is clearly neither dead/ finished nor objective, even indifferent, or perceived as such.
Papers are sought which examine the functioning and role of the past/ time perception in works of detective fiction, exploring the perspectives of individuals or whole groups (everyone involved in detection and pertaining to historical events/ memory) as well as more basic reconstruction of crimes. In particular, papers applying various disciplines, such as the sciences, psychology or history, to this question are welcome. For example, to what extent does past trauma, such as of a victim of murder or another crime, persist into the present and motivate the action of detective fiction, as has often been considered the case with fictional detectives? How does the victimization of a larger group, such as through genocide, serve to rationalize future crimes, such as those driven by vengeance? How authentic, and helpful, is going back in time to reconstruct not only criminal acts, but even motives and memories? To what extent do changes, whether in police practices, even entire regimes, serve to bury or even undo or compensate for the past?
Contact me with any questions. as well as passing on this CFP to anyone else who may be interested.
However, abstracts must be submitted here: http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15916 (deadline 30 Sept.)
By web submission at 07/31/2015 - 04:59
full name / name of organization: NorthEastern Modern Language Association
contact email: bastet801@att.net
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63212
Recent examinations of the functioning of the past within detective fiction – whether going back in time to reconstruct a crime or examine a larger criminal pattern/ trend in a past period – raise the question of how “dead,” to borrow Faulkner’s famous line, the past is. Whether considered from the standpoint of physics (time as a function of space and the expansion of the universe) or, as may seem more obvious, history, time is clearly neither dead/ finished nor objective, even indifferent, or perceived as such.
Papers are sought which examine the functioning and role of the past/ time perception in works of detective fiction, exploring the perspectives of individuals or whole groups (everyone involved in detection and pertaining to historical events/ memory) as well as more basic reconstruction of crimes. In particular, papers applying various disciplines, such as the sciences, psychology or history, to this question are welcome. For example, to what extent does past trauma, such as of a victim of murder or another crime, persist into the present and motivate the action of detective fiction, as has often been considered the case with fictional detectives? How does the victimization of a larger group, such as through genocide, serve to rationalize future crimes, such as those driven by vengeance? How authentic, and helpful, is going back in time to reconstruct not only criminal acts, but even motives and memories? To what extent do changes, whether in police practices, even entire regimes, serve to bury or even undo or compensate for the past?
Contact me with any questions. as well as passing on this CFP to anyone else who may be interested.
However, abstracts must be submitted here: http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15916 (deadline 30 Sept.)
By web submission at 07/31/2015 - 04:59
Monday, July 20, 2015
CFP Roundtable on Metaphors of Detection (9/30/15; NeMLA 2016)
“Metaphors of Detection” (Roundtable)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/74127/%E2%80%9Cmetaphors-detection%E2%80%9D-roundtable
Announcement published by Cecilia Feilla on Sunday, July 5, 2015
Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
September 30, 2015
Location:
Connecticut, United States
Subject Fields:
Literature
CALL FOR PAPERS
Roundtable on “Metaphors of Detection”
Northeast Modern Language Association 47th Annual Convention
Hartford, Connecticut
March 17-20, 2016
Metaphors make the detective. Whether Dupin's "clew," Holmes's game metaphor ("the game's afoot"), Poirot's puzzles and gestalt, or the labyrinths of film noir, the governing metaphors of the great fictional detectives encapsulate the underlying social, hermeneutic, and cultural assumptions that govern their methods. This roundtable aims to bring together a variety of approaches, examples, and interpretations of the guiding metaphors of detective fiction from the genre's origins to the present day. Short presentations on detective narratives in any genre, language, or medium are welcome; talks on a single metaphor, author, or nexus of metaphors and authors are of particular interest.
Deadline for abstracts: Sept. 30, 2015
Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words directly to the specified NeMLA link for the roundtable at
http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15900
Follow the instruction to create a user account. Session ID 15900.
Session organizer: Cecilia Feilla, Department of English and World Literatures, Marymount Manhattan College
Session Format: Roundtable
Area: Anglophone/Comparative Literature
Contact Info:
Cecilia Feilla (Marymount Manhattan College)
Contact Email:
cfeilla@gmail.com
URL:
http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15900
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/74127/%E2%80%9Cmetaphors-detection%E2%80%9D-roundtable
Announcement published by Cecilia Feilla on Sunday, July 5, 2015
Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
September 30, 2015
Location:
Connecticut, United States
Subject Fields:
Literature
CALL FOR PAPERS
Roundtable on “Metaphors of Detection”
Northeast Modern Language Association 47th Annual Convention
Hartford, Connecticut
March 17-20, 2016
Metaphors make the detective. Whether Dupin's "clew," Holmes's game metaphor ("the game's afoot"), Poirot's puzzles and gestalt, or the labyrinths of film noir, the governing metaphors of the great fictional detectives encapsulate the underlying social, hermeneutic, and cultural assumptions that govern their methods. This roundtable aims to bring together a variety of approaches, examples, and interpretations of the guiding metaphors of detective fiction from the genre's origins to the present day. Short presentations on detective narratives in any genre, language, or medium are welcome; talks on a single metaphor, author, or nexus of metaphors and authors are of particular interest.
Deadline for abstracts: Sept. 30, 2015
Please submit an abstract of 250-500 words directly to the specified NeMLA link for the roundtable at
http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15900
Follow the instruction to create a user account. Session ID 15900.
Session organizer: Cecilia Feilla, Department of English and World Literatures, Marymount Manhattan College
Session Format: Roundtable
Area: Anglophone/Comparative Literature
Contact Info:
Cecilia Feilla (Marymount Manhattan College)
Contact Email:
cfeilla@gmail.com
URL:
http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15900
Monday, July 21, 2014
CFP Agatha Christie (Special Issue of Clues) (7/1/15)
CFP: Reappropriating Agatha Christie (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
H-PCAACA
Reappropriating Agatha Christie
(Theme Issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Guest Editors: Jesper Gulddal and Alistair Rolls
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2015
Nearly 40 years after her death, Agatha Christie’s hold over her work goes largely unchallenged. Critical approaches can be overshadowed by an interest in her as an author (her remarkable talent, personality, and life). The extensive fan community and the flourishing Christie industry tend to steer reception of her writing away from academic critics. These constraints conspire to create an obstruction of interpretive possibilities not unlike the “foreclosure of meaning” that Pierre Bayard, in his iconoclastic study of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, has identified as central to Christie’s novels.
Bayard’s controversial intervention opens up new avenues of critical appropriation centered on the literary text itself and its possibilities. Such reappropriation can release the latencies and potentials of her writing, repositioning her in a new historical environment and making her relevant, beyond matters of mere reading pleasure, to a contemporary critical audience.
Articles are invited that offer new forms of critical/creative appropriation of Christie’s works. Some suggested topics include:
• Adaptation and transmediation
• New critical readings
• Christie and the digital humanities (quantitative and computational approaches, media history and theory)
• Christie and the world (translation, transmission and transformation across borders, Christie as world literature)
• Christie and the history of the book (materialist approaches)
• Christie and affects (representation and production of emotions, moods, atmospheres; noninterpretive approaches)
• Christie in the contemporary higher education institution
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and 4–5 keywords, and be between 15 to 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Times or Times Roman font with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the MLA Style Manual, including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized Works Cited list.
Submit to:
Jesper Gulddal and Alistair Rolls, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: jesper.gulddal@newcastle.edu.au or alistair.rolls@newcastle.edu.au
Reviews of recent nonfiction on Christie also are of interest. Address questions re the issue to:
Elizabeth Foxwell, Managing Editor, Clues
Email: clues@elizabethfoxwell.com
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
H-PCAACA
Reappropriating Agatha Christie
(Theme Issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Guest Editors: Jesper Gulddal and Alistair Rolls
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2015
Nearly 40 years after her death, Agatha Christie’s hold over her work goes largely unchallenged. Critical approaches can be overshadowed by an interest in her as an author (her remarkable talent, personality, and life). The extensive fan community and the flourishing Christie industry tend to steer reception of her writing away from academic critics. These constraints conspire to create an obstruction of interpretive possibilities not unlike the “foreclosure of meaning” that Pierre Bayard, in his iconoclastic study of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, has identified as central to Christie’s novels.
Bayard’s controversial intervention opens up new avenues of critical appropriation centered on the literary text itself and its possibilities. Such reappropriation can release the latencies and potentials of her writing, repositioning her in a new historical environment and making her relevant, beyond matters of mere reading pleasure, to a contemporary critical audience.
Articles are invited that offer new forms of critical/creative appropriation of Christie’s works. Some suggested topics include:
• Adaptation and transmediation
• New critical readings
• Christie and the digital humanities (quantitative and computational approaches, media history and theory)
• Christie and the world (translation, transmission and transformation across borders, Christie as world literature)
• Christie and the history of the book (materialist approaches)
• Christie and affects (representation and production of emotions, moods, atmospheres; noninterpretive approaches)
• Christie in the contemporary higher education institution
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and 4–5 keywords, and be between 15 to 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Times or Times Roman font with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the MLA Style Manual, including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized Works Cited list.
Submit to:
Jesper Gulddal and Alistair Rolls, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle, Australia
Email: jesper.gulddal@newcastle.edu.au or alistair.rolls@newcastle.edu.au
Reviews of recent nonfiction on Christie also are of interest. Address questions re the issue to:
Elizabeth Foxwell, Managing Editor, Clues
Email: clues@elizabethfoxwell.com
Sunday, June 8, 2014
CFP Girl Detectives in 20th Century (6/15/14; SAMLA 11/7-9/14)
NANCY DREW AND HER SISTERS: GIRL DETECTIVES IN THE 20TH CENTURY, SAMLA 2014, Nov. 7-9
full name / name of organization:
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email:
lgaillet@gsu.edu
This panel considers depictions of young women in mystery fiction written for the teen audience in the 20th Century. Characters such as Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, and countless others provided role models for young readers, and this panel considers these figures in terms of the intersections between scholarship and fandom. While papers might cover the material and consumer culture associated with these novels and discussions of the authors' representation of adults, friendships, or class, we also encourage submissions that make claims about the enduring “phenomenon” of these characters’ popular appeal examine ways in which feminine/feminist portrayals of characters resonated with female readers, evidenced in the researchers’ personal narratives demonstrate how transparency is critical on the part of archival investigators, as evidenced in the work of existing scholar-fan publications suggest ways to teach researcher positionality to students through study of “girl series” scholarship By June 15, 2014, please submit a 250-word abstract and A/V requirements to Lynee Gaillet, Georgia State University, at lgaillet@gsu.edu.
By web submission at 05/07/2014 - 13:21
full name / name of organization:
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
contact email:
lgaillet@gsu.edu
This panel considers depictions of young women in mystery fiction written for the teen audience in the 20th Century. Characters such as Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, and countless others provided role models for young readers, and this panel considers these figures in terms of the intersections between scholarship and fandom. While papers might cover the material and consumer culture associated with these novels and discussions of the authors' representation of adults, friendships, or class, we also encourage submissions that make claims about the enduring “phenomenon” of these characters’ popular appeal examine ways in which feminine/feminist portrayals of characters resonated with female readers, evidenced in the researchers’ personal narratives demonstrate how transparency is critical on the part of archival investigators, as evidenced in the work of existing scholar-fan publications suggest ways to teach researcher positionality to students through study of “girl series” scholarship By June 15, 2014, please submit a 250-word abstract and A/V requirements to Lynee Gaillet, Georgia State University, at lgaillet@gsu.edu.
By web submission at 05/07/2014 - 13:21
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Journal of Popular Culture October 2012
The latest number 45.5 of The Journal of Popular Culture is now available in print and online at the Wiley Online Library. Contents as follows:
Editorial
Editorial: Adaptation and Disappointment (pages 921–922)
Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction (pages 923–942)
Anne Balay
Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the Need for Insider Knowledge (pages 943–959)
Mathew J. Bartkowiak
“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds (pages 960–978)
David Gillota
Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (pages 979–999)
Benjamin D. O'Dell
“When the Life Giver Dies, All Around Is Laid Waste.” Structural Trauma and the Splitting of Time in Signal to Noise, a Graphic Novel (pages 1000–1019)
Andrés Romero-Jódar
Gay Characters in the Margins: Gender-Based Stereotypes in Subtitled French Film (pages 1020–1040)
Sheila Turek
Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II (pages 1041–1059)
Tony M. Vinci
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances (pages 1060–1089)
Laura Vivanco
The Killer Angels, Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial (pages 1090–1108)
Nicholas White
Book Reviews
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Ed. Ethan Blue. New York: New York University Press, 2012. (pages 1109–1113)
Laura Hapke
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Eds. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 760 pp. $47.00 paperback. (pages 1113–1116)
Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Jane Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $24.95 paperback. (pages 1116–1118)
Kate Netzler Burch
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno. Miriam Hansen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 408 pp. $79 cloth; $29.90 paperback. (pages 1118–1122)
Dora Valkanova
The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Ingram David. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 278 pp. $79.44 paperback. (pages 1122–1123)
Stephen Rust
Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Rice Jeff. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $39.95 paperback. (pages 1123–1126)
Nicholas Porter
The Galaxy is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television. Eds. R. C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 292 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1126–1128)
Rachel E. Page
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film. Ed. Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $30.00 paperback. (pages 1128–1131)
Daniel R. Mistich
The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays. Eds. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 239 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1131–1133)
Shannon McRae
Announcements
Announcement: The William Brigman JPC Award (page 1134)
Editorial
Editorial: Adaptation and Disappointment (pages 921–922)
Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction (pages 923–942)
Anne Balay
Behind the Behind the Scenes of Disney World: Meeting the Need for Insider Knowledge (pages 943–959)
Mathew J. Bartkowiak
“People of Colors”: Multiethnic Humor in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and Weeds (pages 960–978)
David Gillota
Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four (pages 979–999)
Benjamin D. O'Dell
“When the Life Giver Dies, All Around Is Laid Waste.” Structural Trauma and the Splitting of Time in Signal to Noise, a Graphic Novel (pages 1000–1019)
Andrés Romero-Jódar
Gay Characters in the Margins: Gender-Based Stereotypes in Subtitled French Film (pages 1020–1040)
Sheila Turek
Remembering Why We Once Feared the Dark: Reclaiming Humanity Through Fantasy in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II (pages 1041–1059)
Tony M. Vinci
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances (pages 1060–1089)
Laura Vivanco
The Killer Angels, Popular Memory, and the Battle of Gettysburg Sesquicentennial (pages 1090–1108)
Nicholas White
Book Reviews
Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons. Ed. Ethan Blue. New York: New York University Press, 2012. (pages 1109–1113)
Laura Hapke
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Eds. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. Second Edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 760 pp. $47.00 paperback. (pages 1113–1116)
Shanesha R. F. Brooks-Tatum
Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture. Jane Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 232 pp. $24.95 paperback. (pages 1116–1118)
Kate Netzler Burch
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W Adorno. Miriam Hansen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. 408 pp. $79 cloth; $29.90 paperback. (pages 1118–1122)
Dora Valkanova
The Jukebox in the Garden: Ecocriticism and American Popular Music Since 1960. Ingram David. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 278 pp. $79.44 paperback. (pages 1122–1123)
Stephen Rust
Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network. Rice Jeff. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 264 pp. $39.95 paperback. (pages 1123–1126)
Nicholas Porter
The Galaxy is Rated G: Essays on Children's Science Fiction Film and Television. Eds. R. C. Neighbors and Sandy Rankin. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 292 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1126–1128)
Rachel E. Page
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter and the Modern Horror Film. Ed. Kendall R. Phillips. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 256 pp. $30.00 paperback. (pages 1128–1131)
Daniel R. Mistich
The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays. Eds. Matthew Kapell and Stephen McVeigh. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 239 pp. $40.00 paperback. (pages 1131–1133)
Shannon McRae
Announcements
Announcement: The William Brigman JPC Award (page 1134)
Monday, September 10, 2012
New/Recent CFPs
Here's a batch from the UPenn CFP site:
[UPDATE] CFP: The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture: Modes of Mobility: Popular Culture in an Age of Technology (deadline 11/16/12)
Call for Submissions: Studies in Popular Culture (no deadline)
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/30/12; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/27/13-3/30/13)
CFP Edited Collection on Dark Fairy Tales in Children's and Young Adult Literature (deadline 10/20/12)
Monsters and the Monstrous Volume 3, Number 1, Themed Issue on Monstrous Spaces/ Spaces of Monstrosity (deadline for submissions 3/8/13)
Call for Papers: Indigenous 'Deep' Space: Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics (Southwest/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
Call for Papers: Indigenous Science Fiction February 13-16, 2013 (SW/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
The Geek and Popular Culture (SW/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
Mystery & Detective Fiction Area, March 27-30, 2013, Washington, DC (National PCA deadline 11/30/12)
The Empire Tele-Calls Back: Indian Science Fiction in the Global Age (collection; deadline 11/30/12)
Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the Construction of the American Horror Canon [Update] (panel; deadline 1/15/13)
Horror (Text, Media, Culture) (national PCA; deadline 11/30/12)
Call for Submissions - Edited Collection -- Fan Phenomena: Supernatural (deadline 9/15/12)
First Annual FANS Conference (deadline 2/1/13)
Stephen King Area-2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (Sumbissions: 11/30/12)
The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture (collection; deadline 10/31/12)
[UPDATE] CFP: The Ray Browne Conference on Popular Culture: Modes of Mobility: Popular Culture in an Age of Technology (deadline 11/16/12)
Call for Submissions: Studies in Popular Culture (no deadline)
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (11/30/12; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/27/13-3/30/13)
CFP Edited Collection on Dark Fairy Tales in Children's and Young Adult Literature (deadline 10/20/12)
Monsters and the Monstrous Volume 3, Number 1, Themed Issue on Monstrous Spaces/ Spaces of Monstrosity (deadline for submissions 3/8/13)
Call for Papers: Indigenous 'Deep' Space: Indigenous Absence and Presence in Sci-Fi and Comics (Southwest/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
Call for Papers: Indigenous Science Fiction February 13-16, 2013 (SW/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
The Geek and Popular Culture (SW/Texas PCA deadline 11/16/12)
Mystery & Detective Fiction Area, March 27-30, 2013, Washington, DC (National PCA deadline 11/30/12)
The Empire Tele-Calls Back: Indian Science Fiction in the Global Age (collection; deadline 11/30/12)
Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the Construction of the American Horror Canon [Update] (panel; deadline 1/15/13)
Horror (Text, Media, Culture) (national PCA; deadline 11/30/12)
Call for Submissions - Edited Collection -- Fan Phenomena: Supernatural (deadline 9/15/12)
First Annual FANS Conference (deadline 2/1/13)
Stephen King Area-2013 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (Sumbissions: 11/30/12)
The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture (collection; deadline 10/31/12)
Monday, July 18, 2011
CFP: Paranormal Mysteries (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_) (12/29/11)
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=185997
CFP: Paranormal Mysteries (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_)
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-29
Date Submitted: 2011-06-19
Announcement ID: 185997
Guest editor: A. B. Emrys (University of Nebraska–Kearney)
Paranormal mysteries often feature the usual suspects (ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and so forth) but also branch into the gothic, spirituality (as in Tony Hillerman's skinwalkers, Michael Gruber’s shaman trilogy), and other magic realism, as well as biochemical transformation (as in the Relic series) and a wide variety of mystery hybrids with horror and dark fantasy. For this theme issue of _Clues_, potential contributors are urged to think outside the normal boxes. Thematic analysis might include (but is not limited to):
• the paranormal as red herring (explained away by the end, as in Arthur Conan Doyle’s _The Hound of the Baskervilles_)
• minority culture treated as paranormal (as in depictions of voodoo as horror) in mystery texts
• whether horror/dark fantasy in general requires detection
• the paranormal dialogue with subcategories of mystery: clue-puzzle/hard-boiled/noir/private eye/spy/police procedural/etc.
• paranormal romance in relation to romantic suspense
• the mystery ingredients most affected by paranormal hybridity
• women characters as detectives and/or monsters and/or victims in paranormal mysteries
• international adaptations of British horror classics
• film/TV adaptations of paranormal mysteries
• use and/or overuse of providence and other supernatural means for mystery resolution
• the dialogue between literary and popular gothic texts
• stage adaptations of paranormal detection
• paranormal mysteries as reading tools/pedagogical resources
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and 4-5 keywords, and be between 15 and 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Microsoft Word with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the _MLA Style Manual_ (3rd ed., 2008), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized list of Works Cited. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to _Clues_.
Submit manuscripts by email to:
Dr. Janice Allan
Executive Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: J.M.Allan at salford.ac.uk
Direct questions to:
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: clues at elizabethfoxwell.com
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: clues@elizabethfoxwell.com
Visit the website at http://tinyurl.com/aboutclues
CFP: Paranormal Mysteries (theme issue of _Clues: A Journal of Detection_)
Call for Papers Date: 2011-12-29
Date Submitted: 2011-06-19
Announcement ID: 185997
Guest editor: A. B. Emrys (University of Nebraska–Kearney)
Paranormal mysteries often feature the usual suspects (ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and so forth) but also branch into the gothic, spirituality (as in Tony Hillerman's skinwalkers, Michael Gruber’s shaman trilogy), and other magic realism, as well as biochemical transformation (as in the Relic series) and a wide variety of mystery hybrids with horror and dark fantasy. For this theme issue of _Clues_, potential contributors are urged to think outside the normal boxes. Thematic analysis might include (but is not limited to):
• the paranormal as red herring (explained away by the end, as in Arthur Conan Doyle’s _The Hound of the Baskervilles_)
• minority culture treated as paranormal (as in depictions of voodoo as horror) in mystery texts
• whether horror/dark fantasy in general requires detection
• the paranormal dialogue with subcategories of mystery: clue-puzzle/hard-boiled/noir/private eye/spy/police procedural/etc.
• paranormal romance in relation to romantic suspense
• the mystery ingredients most affected by paranormal hybridity
• women characters as detectives and/or monsters and/or victims in paranormal mysteries
• international adaptations of British horror classics
• film/TV adaptations of paranormal mysteries
• use and/or overuse of providence and other supernatural means for mystery resolution
• the dialogue between literary and popular gothic texts
• stage adaptations of paranormal detection
• paranormal mysteries as reading tools/pedagogical resources
Submissions should include a 50-word abstract and 4-5 keywords, and be between 15 and 20 double-spaced, typed pages (approximately 3,300 to 6,000 words) in Microsoft Word with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should follow the _MLA Style Manual_ (3rd ed., 2008), including parenthetical citations in text and an alphabetized list of Works Cited. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to _Clues_.
Submit manuscripts by email to:
Dr. Janice Allan
Executive Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: J.M.Allan at salford.ac.uk
Direct questions to:
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: clues at elizabethfoxwell.com
Elizabeth Foxwell
Managing Editor, _Clues: A Journal of Detection_
Email: clues@elizabethfoxwell.com
Visit the website at http://tinyurl.com/aboutclues
Saturday, August 28, 2010
New from McFarland: Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4864-7
Mystery Movie Series of 1940s Hollywood
Ron Backer
Ron Backer
ISBN 978-0-7864-4864-7
63 photos, bibliography, index
330pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2010
63 photos, bibliography, index
330pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2010
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