The following was posted on H-PCAACA recently. Unfortunately, the text is a bit corrupted. I will post a revised version when/if it becomes available.
*Call for Papers*
*Companions in Doctor Who: Roles, Characters and Themes*
On introducing the new companion Clara in March 2013, Steven Moffat,
*Doctor
on the Doctor, her [sic] adventure that she [sic] goes on with the Doctor
Agree or disagree with this view, it is clear that the companion has become
an integral part of the series *Doctor Who*. Rarely has the Doctor
travelled without a companion since the show began in 1963.
as individuals and as a whole.
The editors welcome chapter proposals which
deal with the companions as individuals, thematic groupings of companions
by era/Doctor, gender and sexuality, feminism and its many permutations, or
With over forty characters travelling with the Doctor over the life of the
series, there are many options available.
Proposals are due the 31 October
2013.
The final article/chapter should be around 20-25 pages (Double spaced,
Times New Roman 12)
Important dates:
Proposals due 31 October 2013; papers 30 September 2014;
final edit 15 March 2015.
Editors: Dr Sherry Ginn & Dr Gillian Leitch
Please email your proposals to gilliandoctor@gmail.com
Thank you.
Friday, August 23, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Advance Notice for Mythcon 45
Mythcon 45
Where Fantasy Fits
Wheaton College
Norton, MA
August 8-11, 2014
Guests of Honor
Richard C. West – Scholar Winner of the 1976 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies for Tolkien Criticism.
to be announced – Author
Where Fantasy Fits:
Fantasy literature does not fit comfortably into any scheme. Both old and new, traditional and innovative, popular and elite, mainstream and esoteric, escapist and engaged, high-tech and anti-technology, fantasy defies definitions and transcends categories, dramatizing the incompleteness of our understanding of our own imaginations. At Mythcon 45 we will discuss the place of fantasy in our culture, our institutions, and our hearts.
McFarland Catalog Fall 2013
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, has released its Fall 2013 catalog listing books due out this summer, fall, and winter. It can viewed online or downloaded via the following link: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/about-mcfarland/contact-us/catalog-requests-mailing-list-sign-up/. I will post details to relevant books as they become available.
CFP Science Fiction and the Novel (9/1/14)
A head's up from the MLA's Announcements of General Interest list:
Studies in the Novel seeks critical responses to the genres of science fiction for a special issue, Science Fictions, to be edited by Farah Mendlesohn. Essays would consider debates within SF’s various communities of genre and affiliation, as well as across these communities, with an emphasis on the SF novel and writings of any kind by noted SF novelists. The submission deadline is 1 September 2014; all questions and submissions should be directed to studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.
Studies in the Novel seeks critical responses to the genres of science fiction for a special issue, Science Fictions, to be edited by Farah Mendlesohn. Essays would consider debates within SF’s various communities of genre and affiliation, as well as across these communities, with an emphasis on the SF novel and writings of any kind by noted SF novelists. The submission deadline is 1 September 2014; all questions and submissions should be directed to studiesinthenovel@unt.edu.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Primeval: New World TV Marathon
Syfy will air a marathon of its "new" series Primeval: New World this Saturday, 10 August. The series is actually a Canadian-made production based on the popular ITV series Primeval, which aired in the US on BBC America. The latest version lasted for 13 episodes before its cancellation (and subsequent airing on Syfy). The Region 1 DVD/Blu-ray release of the series occurs this fall; the series is already available through video on demand services.
Marathon Schedule:
10:00 AM Primeval: New World - The New World
11:00 AM Primeval: New World - Sisiutl
12:00 PM Primeval: New World - Fear Of Flying
01:00 PM Primeval: New World - Angry Birds
02:00 PM Primeval: New World - Undone
03:00 PM Primeval: New World - Clean Up On Aisle 3
04:00 PM Primeval: New World - Babes In The Woods
05:00 PM Primeval: New World - Truth
06:00 PM Primeval: New World - Breakthrough
07:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Great Escape
08:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Inquisition
09:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Sounds Of Thunder - Part 1
10:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Sounds Of Thunder - Part 2
Marathon Schedule:
10:00 AM Primeval: New World - The New World
11:00 AM Primeval: New World - Sisiutl
12:00 PM Primeval: New World - Fear Of Flying
01:00 PM Primeval: New World - Angry Birds
02:00 PM Primeval: New World - Undone
03:00 PM Primeval: New World - Clean Up On Aisle 3
04:00 PM Primeval: New World - Babes In The Woods
05:00 PM Primeval: New World - Truth
06:00 PM Primeval: New World - Breakthrough
07:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Great Escape
08:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Inquisition
09:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Sounds Of Thunder - Part 1
10:00 PM Primeval: New World - The Sounds Of Thunder - Part 2
PCA/ACA 2014 Conference
Before I forget:
The national joint conference of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association will be held next April in Chicago. Details and information on how to submit a proposal are now online at http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/. The list of subject areas (and area chair contact information) can be accessed at http://pcaaca.org/subject-areas-chairs/. Proposals are due by 1 November 2013.
The national joint conference of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association will be held next April in Chicago. Details and information on how to submit a proposal are now online at http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/. The list of subject areas (and area chair contact information) can be accessed at http://pcaaca.org/subject-areas-chairs/. Proposals are due by 1 November 2013.
NEPCA 2013 Conference Update
A quick post for the day without any of yesterday's ranting.
Details for registration and travel/lodging for the 2013 meeting of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association are now available on their blog at http://nepca.wordpress.com/fall-conference/. The program has not yet been uploaded to the site.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
Details for registration and travel/lodging for the 2013 meeting of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association are now available on their blog at http://nepca.wordpress.com/fall-conference/. The program has not yet been uploaded to the site.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
New Doctor Who--Who Cares?
Apparently the BBC announced yesterday that actor Peter Capaldi will be taking over as the next Doctor Who. Details (and some comments by fans at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23570354). Capaldi is 55 now, so this a big change from the younger Doctors we've had in recent years and (perhaps) suggests a change in the series's demographics (or the network's propagandist strategies).
However, as my post's title suggests, I'm not sure I really care about the Doctor anymore. Its been a good--sometimes great--run since 2005, but the departure of "the Ponds" (Amy Pond and Rory Williams) earlier in Season 7 seemed like a large slap in the face to fans (details at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2210593/Doctor-Who-fans-say-goodbye-Amy-Pond-killed-hands-weeping-angels.html and http://www.themarysue.com/steven-moffat-ponds/ and http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds and (sorry) http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/most-heartbreaking-moments-of-the-ponds-exit-40223.htm [there's lots more to view at https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+who+ponds+no+more]; more on Amy at http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds) and I haven't had the desire to watch further.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
However, as my post's title suggests, I'm not sure I really care about the Doctor anymore. Its been a good--sometimes great--run since 2005, but the departure of "the Ponds" (Amy Pond and Rory Williams) earlier in Season 7 seemed like a large slap in the face to fans (details at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2210593/Doctor-Who-fans-say-goodbye-Amy-Pond-killed-hands-weeping-angels.html and http://www.themarysue.com/steven-moffat-ponds/ and http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds and (sorry) http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/most-heartbreaking-moments-of-the-ponds-exit-40223.htm [there's lots more to view at https://www.google.com/search?q=doctor+who+ponds+no+more]; more on Amy at http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/aug/31/doctor-who-farewell-amy-ponds) and I haven't had the desire to watch further.Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
Monday, August 5, 2013
Amazon.com Concerns
Not to turn the blog into a soapbox, but readers might be interested in the fact that Amazon.com (and all its global affiliates) have removed all customer-uploaded images from its network in favor (apparently) of those images supplied by sellers. Thus, many products now have inadequate information on the site; out of print books no longer have cover images, DVDs and Blu-rays no longer have information on extras, and older CDs no longer have track information. The problem is worse for electronics and their accessories, as many customers have remarked. Extended discussions of this issue can be found in two forums on Amazon.com under Customer Uploaded Images DISCONTINUED!?!?!?! and Customer images gone? .
If you're also concerned about this change, which does irrevocably alter how many of use Amazon, please complete the survey Feedback on Customer Uploaded Images and Videos at http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/social-images-feedback.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
If you're also concerned about this change, which does irrevocably alter how many of use Amazon, please complete the survey Feedback on Customer Uploaded Images and Videos at http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/social-images-feedback.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor
Science Fiction Studies for July 2013
The latest number of Science Fiction Studies is now available. It is a mixed bag of essays, as the following contents list details. Clicking the links below will take you to abstracts for the essays. :
ARTICLES
Science Fiction Studies
#120 = Volume 40, Part 2 = July 2013
ARTICLES
- Alan C. Elms. Building Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
- David M. Higgins. Psychic Decolonization in 1960s Science Fiction
- Carter F. Hanson. Memory’s Offspring and Utopian Ambiguity in Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution” and The Dispossessed
- Jaak Tomberg. On the “Double Vision” of Realism and SF Estrangement in William Gibson’s Bigend Trilogy
- Arthur B. Evans. The Apocalyptic Science Fiction of Jacques Spitz
- M. Elizabeth Ginway. A Paradigm of the Tropical: Brazil in Contemporary Anglo-American Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Umberto Rossi. Valerio Evangelisti: The Italian Way to Slipstream
- Neil Easterbrook. Cognitive Estrangement is Us: Youngquist’s Cyberfiction After the Future
- John Huntington. Future Wars: Krome’s An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945 and Seed’s Future Wars
- Allen/Williams’s Afterimages of Slavery (Isiah Lavender III)
- Atwood’sIn Other Worlds (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.)
- Bould’s Science Fiction (Steven Shaviro)
- Brooke’s Strange Divisions and Alien Territories (Jerome Winter)
- Dick’s The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (Umberto Rossi)
- Layton’s The Humanism of Dr. Who (Elizabeth Lundberg)
- Lindow’s Le Guin and Moral Development (Stina Attebery)
- Miller/Van Riper’s 1950s “Rocketman” TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junior Space Men (Lincoln Geraghty)
- Otto’s SF and Transformative Environmentalism (Gerry Canavan)
- Scheerbart’s Lesabéndio, trans. Svendsen. (William B. Fischer)
- Sellars/O’Hara’s Interviews with J.G. Ballard (Umberto Rossi)
- Another Look at Leinster’s “Four Little Ships” (Edward Wysocki)
- Response from the Author (Thomas Barrett)
- Corrections (Rob Latham and Sherryl Vint)
- Octavia E. Butler Celebration (Nalo Hopkinson)
- 2014 PKD Festival (Umberto Rossi)
- Stanley Kubrick Returns to LA (Pedro Groppo)
- 2013-14 Mullen Fellows Announced (Rob Latham)
- 2013 New Genre Army Conference (Christos Callow Jr.)
- Women and Science Fiction (Joan Gordon)
- ICFA 2013 (Stina Attebery)
- Eaton/SFRA 2013
- Biohacking and Synthetic Biology (Karin Tybjerg and Louis Whiteley)
Science Fiction Film & Television for 2013
I don't seem to have kept up to date on journals of late, but Science Fiction Film & Television has completed its run for 2013. The contents lists consists of a series of imbedded tables and will not easily reproduce on the blog. Volume 6, Number 1 of the journal is a special issue on The X-Files, and Volume 6, Number 2 appears to be an open-topic issue.Click the preceding links for more details.
Extrapolation Open Call
Not sure if I've posted this before-- Extrapolation has the following open call for papers on its publisher's website:
Extrapolation was founded in 1959 by Thomas D. Clareson and was the first journal to publish academic work on science fiction and fantasy. It continues to be a leading, peer-reviewed, international journal in that specialized genre in the literature of popular culture.
It welcomes papers on all areas of speculative culture, including print, film, television, comic books and video games, and particularly encourages papers which consider popular texts within their larger cultural context.
The journal publishes a wide variety of critical approaches including but not limited to literary criticism, utopian studies, genre criticism, feminist theory, critical race studies, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Extrapolation promotes innovative work which considers the place of speculative texts in contemporary culture. It is interested in promoting dialogue among scholars working within a number of traditions and in encouraging the serious study of popular culture.
We are particularly interested in the following areas of study:
- Racial constructions in speculative genres
- Children's and YA sf and fantasy
- Sexualities
- Fantastic motifs in mainstream texts
- Gender and speculative texts
- History of sf and fantasy
- New weird fiction
- Remakes, rewriting and retrofitting
- Pulp sf and fantasy
- The body in speculative texts
- Posthumanism
- Political sf and fantasy
- Non-Western speculative traditions
- Technoculture
Please email submissions to Javier A. Martinez (extrapolation@utb.edu )
Essays should be approximately 4000-9000 words, written according to MLA standards and include a 100 word abstract. Neither embedded footnotes nor generated footnotes that some software systems make available should be used. Electronic submissions in MS Word are encouraged. The editors aim to respond to submissions within three months. Please do not send simultaneous submissions of articles to other publications.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Saving Mr. Banks
Here's a much more interesting looking film also due out from Disney. It explores the origins of the studio's Mary Poppins.
Frozen First Look
Here is the first trailer for Disney's upcoming animated feature film Frozen due out later in the year. Hopefully the real film will have less juvenile humor and more story.
Monday, May 27, 2013
Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction -- Spec. Issue of Femspec (5/30/13)
One quick post for the day:
CFP - Femspec: Special Issue on Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction
Call for Papers Date: 2013-05-30 (in 3 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-05
Announcement ID: 201982
Femspec, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, invites papers for a special issue of Femspec, Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction, examining speculative fiction books, TV shows, or movies that re-imagine the way we view women growing older and/or depict the way societal expectations of gender roles impact how we age. Keeping in mind the feminist thrust of the journal, we seek submissions that consider how major feminist sf writers depict aging characters, that apply feminist theory to depictions of aging in sf texts broadly defined, or that address sf’s potential to critique the relationship of gender to ideologies of aging in contemporary society or to re-imagine the future of aging primarily for women, but also for men within a gendered perspective.
The seeds for this special issue were planted at a paper session, "Women Growing Older in the Perilous Realm: Science Fiction and Re-Imagining Old Age" at the 2012 National Women’s Studies Conference 2012, chaired by Margaret Cruickshank. Whether analyzing a picture of older women as inhabiting a privileged position from which to critique society as in “The Space Crone,” a vision of the planet Vulcan where an older woman is the powerful high priestess, or the creation of a culture in which older women are given the most creative work as in Joanna Russ’s Whileaway, we need to ask: how does this re-imagining of old age empower older women, give new value to their accumulated knowledge or new expression to their abilities, apply a feminist lens to their subordination or oppression, or otherwise upend the hegemonic narrative of women’s aging as nothing but a decline into silence and invisibility.
Because Femspec is a fully independent journal funded by subscriptions rather than institutional support, subscription is required on submission. Essays undergo a rigorous two-step jury process with independent readers and members of the Femspec editorial board. Submissions can be sent directly to the special issue editor, Aishwarya Ganapathiraju, aganapath@gmail.com or to Femspec.org, where subscription information can be found.
In addition to this special issue, Femspec seeks scholarly submissions that explore gender issues in sf, apply feminist criticism to the study of sf or analyze the work of women writers in science-fiction media or “speculative fiction” broadly defined. The last date for submitting work for consideration is May 30, 2013.
Aishwarya Ganapathiraju
Femspec: Special Issue Editor
aganapath@gmail.com
Email: aganapath@gmail.com
CFP - Femspec: Special Issue on Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction
Call for Papers Date: 2013-05-30 (in 3 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-05
Announcement ID: 201982
Femspec, an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to challenging gender through speculative means in any genre, invites papers for a special issue of Femspec, Aging and Gender in Speculative Fiction, examining speculative fiction books, TV shows, or movies that re-imagine the way we view women growing older and/or depict the way societal expectations of gender roles impact how we age. Keeping in mind the feminist thrust of the journal, we seek submissions that consider how major feminist sf writers depict aging characters, that apply feminist theory to depictions of aging in sf texts broadly defined, or that address sf’s potential to critique the relationship of gender to ideologies of aging in contemporary society or to re-imagine the future of aging primarily for women, but also for men within a gendered perspective.
The seeds for this special issue were planted at a paper session, "Women Growing Older in the Perilous Realm: Science Fiction and Re-Imagining Old Age" at the 2012 National Women’s Studies Conference 2012, chaired by Margaret Cruickshank. Whether analyzing a picture of older women as inhabiting a privileged position from which to critique society as in “The Space Crone,” a vision of the planet Vulcan where an older woman is the powerful high priestess, or the creation of a culture in which older women are given the most creative work as in Joanna Russ’s Whileaway, we need to ask: how does this re-imagining of old age empower older women, give new value to their accumulated knowledge or new expression to their abilities, apply a feminist lens to their subordination or oppression, or otherwise upend the hegemonic narrative of women’s aging as nothing but a decline into silence and invisibility.
Because Femspec is a fully independent journal funded by subscriptions rather than institutional support, subscription is required on submission. Essays undergo a rigorous two-step jury process with independent readers and members of the Femspec editorial board. Submissions can be sent directly to the special issue editor, Aishwarya Ganapathiraju, aganapath@gmail.com or to Femspec.org, where subscription information can be found.
In addition to this special issue, Femspec seeks scholarly submissions that explore gender issues in sf, apply feminist criticism to the study of sf or analyze the work of women writers in science-fiction media or “speculative fiction” broadly defined. The last date for submitting work for consideration is May 30, 2013.
Aishwarya Ganapathiraju
Femspec: Special Issue Editor
aganapath@gmail.com
Email: aganapath@gmail.com
Friday, May 24, 2013
Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture CFP (6/19/13)
Here's one more I just came across:
Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture
Publication Date: 2013-06-19 (in 26 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-18
Announcement ID: 202344
I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture. The collection will focus on recent reinterpretations and reboots of classical fairy tales, ways the contemporary texts address the original tales and narratological implications of the repetitions and adjustments of these stories. In essays that explore the functions and consequences of fairy tale reboots, remakes and updates, authors will consider the ways fairy tale generic conventions have been revised over time, representations of race, gender, class and sexual identity, the roles of archetypes, mythic tropes and patterns and the emergence of self-referential and meta-tales within these texts.
Essays may also address fan culture influence on contemporary tales, opportunities for interactivity and the roles of stars in fairy tale reboots. Text focus could include television series, feature-length films, comic books and graphic novels, games and animation.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Fables (Bill Willingham/Vertigo, 2002-present)
• The Red Shoes (Kim Yong-gyun, 2005)
• Lost Girls (Alan Moore/Top Shelf, 2006)
• Hansel and Gretel (Yim Pil-Sung, 2007)
• Sydney White (Joe Nussbaum, 2007)
• Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009)
• The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
• Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011)
• Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
• Beastly (Daniel Barnz, 2011)
• Once Upon a Time (ABC, 2011-present)
• Grimm (NBC, 2011-present)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders, 2012)
• Mirror, Mirror (Tarsem Singh, 2012)
• Hansel and Gretel (Anthony Ferrante, 2013)
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola, 2013)
• Jack the Giant Slayer (Bryan Singer, 2013)
Submit a two-page proposals by the deadline of June 19, 2013 to Dr. Melissa Lenos at melissalenos@gmail.com; questions may be addressed to the same. Please also include a short bio. If your proposal is selected, the final essay (5000-8000 words) will be due on December 1, 2013.
Melissa Lenos
Email: melissalenos@gmail.com
Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales in Popular Culture
Publication Date: 2013-06-19 (in 26 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-18
Announcement ID: 202344
I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture. The collection will focus on recent reinterpretations and reboots of classical fairy tales, ways the contemporary texts address the original tales and narratological implications of the repetitions and adjustments of these stories. In essays that explore the functions and consequences of fairy tale reboots, remakes and updates, authors will consider the ways fairy tale generic conventions have been revised over time, representations of race, gender, class and sexual identity, the roles of archetypes, mythic tropes and patterns and the emergence of self-referential and meta-tales within these texts.
Essays may also address fan culture influence on contemporary tales, opportunities for interactivity and the roles of stars in fairy tale reboots. Text focus could include television series, feature-length films, comic books and graphic novels, games and animation.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
• Fables (Bill Willingham/Vertigo, 2002-present)
• The Red Shoes (Kim Yong-gyun, 2005)
• Lost Girls (Alan Moore/Top Shelf, 2006)
• Hansel and Gretel (Yim Pil-Sung, 2007)
• Sydney White (Joe Nussbaum, 2007)
• Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009)
• The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
• Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011)
• Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
• Beastly (Daniel Barnz, 2011)
• Once Upon a Time (ABC, 2011-present)
• Grimm (NBC, 2011-present)
• Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders, 2012)
• Mirror, Mirror (Tarsem Singh, 2012)
• Hansel and Gretel (Anthony Ferrante, 2013)
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola, 2013)
• Jack the Giant Slayer (Bryan Singer, 2013)
Submit a two-page proposals by the deadline of June 19, 2013 to Dr. Melissa Lenos at melissalenos@gmail.com; questions may be addressed to the same. Please also include a short bio. If your proposal is selected, the final essay (5000-8000 words) will be due on December 1, 2013.
Melissa Lenos
Email: melissalenos@gmail.com
Cityscapes of the Future CFP (6/30/13)
Call For Papers: Cityscapes of the Future (edited collection)
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-30
Date Submitted: 2013-04-12
Announcement ID: 202986
Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction
The city has played a pivotal role in science fiction narratives since the earliest days of the genre. Towering megastructures, dystopian urbanity and the otherworldly configurations of alien cities have contributed greatly to representations of imagined futures.
Our project aims to take a broad view of the science-fictional cityscape, in any medium (television, film, novels, comics/graphic novels, anime, video games, etc.).
All relevant topics are welcome; we encourage interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, as well as discussions of non-Western texts. We are especially interested in the following subjects:
Please send a 250-word abstract and a short biography to futurecityscapes@gmail.com by June 30, 2013. If accepted, complete essays of 5000-7000 words will be due by January 15, 2014. All submissions must be original and previously unpublished.
Dr. Yael Maurer, Shawn Edrei and Meyrav Koren-Kuik
The Department of English and American Studies
Tel-Aviv University
Email: futurecityscapes@gmail.com
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-30
Date Submitted: 2013-04-12
Announcement ID: 202986
Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction
The city has played a pivotal role in science fiction narratives since the earliest days of the genre. Towering megastructures, dystopian urbanity and the otherworldly configurations of alien cities have contributed greatly to representations of imagined futures.
Our project aims to take a broad view of the science-fictional cityscape, in any medium (television, film, novels, comics/graphic novels, anime, video games, etc.).
All relevant topics are welcome; we encourage interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, as well as discussions of non-Western texts. We are especially interested in the following subjects:
- Postmodern SF and the City
- Alien Cities
- The City and the Body
- Virtual Cities
- The Victorian City and Contemporary SF
Please send a 250-word abstract and a short biography to futurecityscapes@gmail.com by June 30, 2013. If accepted, complete essays of 5000-7000 words will be due by January 15, 2014. All submissions must be original and previously unpublished.
Dr. Yael Maurer, Shawn Edrei and Meyrav Koren-Kuik
The Department of English and American Studies
Tel-Aviv University
Email: futurecityscapes@gmail.com
Narrative Structures and Audience Perception in/of Contemporary Television Series CFP (6/1/13)
CALL FOR CHAPTERS-"Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception”
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-01 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-05
Announcement ID: 201958
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: "Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception”
Overview of the Book:Through a collection of original contributions, this book seeks to provide readers with new perspectives on the current research in Contemporary Television Series - narrative structures and audience perception. Scope of the Book:The study of television series is simultaneously social scientific, humanistic, and professional in orientation. Accordingly, this book welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners in any disciplinary field. We seek contributions from researchers and practitioners in communication studies and allied fields (e.g., media studies, telecommunications, journalism, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies).Contributions may follow any methodological approach, including, but not limited to, quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, rhetorical, interpretive, case study, discourse analytic, and critical analytic approaches, among others. Submissions from both established and emerging scholars are welcomed.
Topics
Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
- Classical and post-modern TV series;
- Thematic TV Series (historical, medical, science fiction, medical);
- TV Series inspired from reality;
- Stardom, Fandom and Fan clubs related to TV series;
- Audience reception of TV series-patterns of consumption;
- TV series and new media;
- Globalization in the production and distribution of TV series.
The articles should be submitted as an email attachment in MS Word to the editors with “YourLastName – TV Series” as the title. Please include a short biography and your affiliation along with the proposal. The articles (3,000-5,000 words) should adhere to APA Style.
Review and Publication Process: Articles are sent to 2 reviewers for review. The reviewers' recommendations determine whether a paper will be accepted / accepted subject to change / subject to resubmission with significant changes / rejected.
The book will be submitted for publishing to the University of Bucharest Publishing House (http://editura.unibuc.ro/?lang=en).
The deadline of submitting the articles is 1st of July 2013.
For inquiries, please contact the editors from the University of Bucharest:
Valentina Marinescu: valentina.marinescu@yahoo.com
Silvia Branea: brsalt@gmail.com
Bianca Mitu: bianca.mitu82@gmail.com
Valentina Marinescu
University of Bucharest Romania
Email: valentina.marinescu@yahoo.com
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-01 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-05
Announcement ID: 201958
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: "Contemporary Television Series: Narrative Structures and Audience Perception”
Overview of the Book:Through a collection of original contributions, this book seeks to provide readers with new perspectives on the current research in Contemporary Television Series - narrative structures and audience perception. Scope of the Book:The study of television series is simultaneously social scientific, humanistic, and professional in orientation. Accordingly, this book welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners in any disciplinary field. We seek contributions from researchers and practitioners in communication studies and allied fields (e.g., media studies, telecommunications, journalism, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies).Contributions may follow any methodological approach, including, but not limited to, quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, rhetorical, interpretive, case study, discourse analytic, and critical analytic approaches, among others. Submissions from both established and emerging scholars are welcomed.
Topics
Contributions may include, but are not limited to:
- Classical and post-modern TV series;
- Thematic TV Series (historical, medical, science fiction, medical);
- TV Series inspired from reality;
- Stardom, Fandom and Fan clubs related to TV series;
- Audience reception of TV series-patterns of consumption;
- TV series and new media;
- Globalization in the production and distribution of TV series.
The articles should be submitted as an email attachment in MS Word to the editors with “YourLastName – TV Series” as the title. Please include a short biography and your affiliation along with the proposal. The articles (3,000-5,000 words) should adhere to APA Style.
Review and Publication Process: Articles are sent to 2 reviewers for review. The reviewers' recommendations determine whether a paper will be accepted / accepted subject to change / subject to resubmission with significant changes / rejected.
The book will be submitted for publishing to the University of Bucharest Publishing House (http://editura.unibuc.ro/?lang=en).
The deadline of submitting the articles is 1st of July 2013.
For inquiries, please contact the editors from the University of Bucharest:
Valentina Marinescu: valentina.marinescu@yahoo.com
Silvia Branea: brsalt@gmail.com
Bianca Mitu: bianca.mitu82@gmail.com
Valentina Marinescu
University of Bucharest Romania
Email: valentina.marinescu@yahoo.com
Sociology and Neil Gaiman Collect CFP (6/1/13)
Still catching up. Here is the first of 3 calls for papers with upcoming deadlines.
Magic and Dreams and Good Madness: Sociology and Neil Gaiman
Location: Ireland
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-01 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-12
Announcement ID: 202210
Neil Gaiman is considered one of the most popular authors of science fiction and fantasy alive today. He has written novels, short stories, film and television scripts, comic books and graphic novel series; and maintains an extremely prolific online presence through his blog, tumblr and twitter accounts. Some of his most popular works include The Sandman comics, the novels Coraline, American Gods, and Stardust, and two episodes of the popular British science fiction series Doctor Who. Gaiman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and The Bram Stoker Award. In 2009 he was awarded The Newberry Medal for children’s novel The Graveyard Book and the following year was also awarded The Carnegie Medal, becoming the first author ever to win both awards for the same work.
This collection will contain 20 essays inspired by the work of any of Gaiman’s publications over his career. His books, graphic novels and the movies they have inspired, provide endless possibilities for sociological analysis. This collection will be unique, encouraging the publication of chapters by those beginning their academic careers. It will prioritise submissions from graduate students currently working on their MA and PhD programs.
Suggested topics include, but are in no way limited to:
- Society and its portrayal
- Sexuality and the Erotic
- Prejudice
- Bodies and Embodiment
- The Law and the Criminal System
- Government and Politics
- Education Systems
- Gender, Race and Class
- Relationships (sexual, friendship, the family, magic, etc…)
- Human and Non-Human Rights
- Conformity and Deviance
- Socialisation
- Mental Health
Please submit proposed abstracts of 500 words, along with a 250 word biography in Microsoft Word format to goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com by June 1 2013.
Gráinne O'Brien and Alexandra Dunne
Email: goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://goodmadnesscfp.blogspot.com/
Magic and Dreams and Good Madness: Sociology and Neil Gaiman
Location: Ireland
Call for Papers Date: 2013-06-01 (in 8 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-12
Announcement ID: 202210
Neil Gaiman is considered one of the most popular authors of science fiction and fantasy alive today. He has written novels, short stories, film and television scripts, comic books and graphic novel series; and maintains an extremely prolific online presence through his blog, tumblr and twitter accounts. Some of his most popular works include The Sandman comics, the novels Coraline, American Gods, and Stardust, and two episodes of the popular British science fiction series Doctor Who. Gaiman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and The Bram Stoker Award. In 2009 he was awarded The Newberry Medal for children’s novel The Graveyard Book and the following year was also awarded The Carnegie Medal, becoming the first author ever to win both awards for the same work.
This collection will contain 20 essays inspired by the work of any of Gaiman’s publications over his career. His books, graphic novels and the movies they have inspired, provide endless possibilities for sociological analysis. This collection will be unique, encouraging the publication of chapters by those beginning their academic careers. It will prioritise submissions from graduate students currently working on their MA and PhD programs.
Suggested topics include, but are in no way limited to:
- Society and its portrayal
- Sexuality and the Erotic
- Prejudice
- Bodies and Embodiment
- The Law and the Criminal System
- Government and Politics
- Education Systems
- Gender, Race and Class
- Relationships (sexual, friendship, the family, magic, etc…)
- Human and Non-Human Rights
- Conformity and Deviance
- Socialisation
- Mental Health
Please submit proposed abstracts of 500 words, along with a 250 word biography in Microsoft Word format to goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com by June 1 2013.
Gráinne O'Brien and Alexandra Dunne
Email: goodmadnesscfp@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://goodmadnesscfp.blogspot.com/
Friday, May 17, 2013
Popular Preternaturaliana Now Online
We've just launched a new endeavor called Popular Preternaturaliana: Studying the Monstrous in Popular Culture at http://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/. The site is sponsored
by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area and (like NEPCA Fantastic) hosted by The
Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages in the
hopes of providing a place to promote further study and debate of the
preternatural where ever and when ever
it may appear.
In the future, calls for papers and other postings relating to the monstrous, gothic, and horror can be found on the new site.
Michael A. Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Co-Founder, The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
In the future, calls for papers and other postings relating to the monstrous, gothic, and horror can be found on the new site.
Michael A. Torregrossa
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Co-Founder, The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages
Thursday, May 16, 2013
CFP World SF Film/TV (journal issue) (9/1/13)
CFP: world sf film and television (journal special issue)
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Date Submitted: 2012-04-18
Announcement ID: 194038
Science Fiction Film and Television (http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121631/) is seeking articles for a special issue in on world sf.
Although excluding the US from discussions of world cinema and television creates a problematic opposition(ality), we are seeking critical work on sf from other national/transnational, and especially non-Anglophone, contexts, both historical and contemporary. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in work which introduces and/or offers fresh insights into specific national cinemas/televisions, or which reconceptualises sf by relativising US/First Cinema variants as culturally-specific approaches rather than generic norms, or which addresses the following:
• globalisation
• transnationalism
• imperialism, neo-imperialism, post-imperialism
• colonialism, decolonisation, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism
• sf from the Third World/Developing World/Global South
• indigenous, Fourth World and Fourth Cinema sf
• the subaltern
• nationhood, national identity, regional identity
• race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
• global networks, informational black holes
• borders, borderlands
• homelands, migrations, diasporas
• national, international or transnational contexts of production, distribution or consumption
• specific production cycles
Articles should be approximately 9000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.
Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).
The deadline for submission to this special issue is September 1 2013.
Dr Mark Bould
Department of Arts
The University of the West of England
St Matthias Campus
Oldbury Court Road
Fishponds
Bristol BS16 2JP
United Kingdom
Email: mark.bould@gmail.com
Publication Date: 2013-09-01
Date Submitted: 2012-04-18
Announcement ID: 194038
Science Fiction Film and Television (http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/121631/) is seeking articles for a special issue in on world sf.
Although excluding the US from discussions of world cinema and television creates a problematic opposition(ality), we are seeking critical work on sf from other national/transnational, and especially non-Anglophone, contexts, both historical and contemporary. We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in work which introduces and/or offers fresh insights into specific national cinemas/televisions, or which reconceptualises sf by relativising US/First Cinema variants as culturally-specific approaches rather than generic norms, or which addresses the following:
• globalisation
• transnationalism
• imperialism, neo-imperialism, post-imperialism
• colonialism, decolonisation, neo-colonialism, post-colonialism
• sf from the Third World/Developing World/Global South
• indigenous, Fourth World and Fourth Cinema sf
• the subaltern
• nationhood, national identity, regional identity
• race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality
• global networks, informational black holes
• borders, borderlands
• homelands, migrations, diasporas
• national, international or transnational contexts of production, distribution or consumption
• specific production cycles
Articles should be approximately 9000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. Submissions (in word or rtf, following MLA style) should be made via our website at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lup-sfftv.
Any queries should be directed to the editors, Mark Bould (mark.bould@gmail.com) and Sherryl Vint (sherryl.vint@gmail.com).
The deadline for submission to this special issue is September 1 2013.
Dr Mark Bould
Department of Arts
The University of the West of England
St Matthias Campus
Oldbury Court Road
Fishponds
Bristol BS16 2JP
United Kingdom
Email: mark.bould@gmail.com
CFP Performing Fandom (Journal Issue) (March/April 2014)
CFP: Special Issue Performing Fandom, Journal of Transformative Works and Cultures
Call for Papers Date: 2014-03-01
Date Submitted: 2011-12-19
Announcement ID: 190620
Call for papers Performing Fandom Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, March 2015 Edited by Jen Gunnels (New York Review of Science Fiction) and Carrie J. Cole (University of Arizona, Tucson)
Surprisingly, fan studies and performance studies remain relative strangers in scholarship. With a few exceptions, there seems to be little crossover between fields in terms of analysis, theory, and methodology. Such a situation, on both sides of the equation, should be addressed given the potential productive overlap between the two. With this special issue, we want to encourage scholars of both fan and performance to open up further avenues of study and methodological practice in order to expand both fields to their mutual benefit. Fandom is a performed set of practices. It’s something that one does. For many, being a fan is a distinct part of their performed identity. This practice may take many forms, from the performativity inherent to fan writing to more blatant performances such as LARPs and cosplay. From the other side of the fence, performance studies has had little interaction with fan studies, and investigations into intersections between the disciplines around such issues as identity performance and participant/performer ethnographies would further energize both fields.
We invite scholars in fan studies and performance studies to examine how fandom is performed, what performance practices can reveal about fandom, and how fan studies can benefit performances. We welcome submissions dealing with, but not limited to, aspects of:
• Specific performance analysis of particular fandoms.
• Fan fiction as performative or dramaturgical.
• Identity and community performance in specific franchise fandoms and in general.
• Cosplay.
• Live-action role-playing games.
• Design and performance in nonfranchise fandoms such as steampunk.
• Fan communities and participation as applied to traditional performances.
• Online performance within fan listservs and sites.
Submission guidelines:
TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Contributors are encouraged to include embedded links, images, and videos in their articles or to propose submissions in alternative formats that might comprise interviews, collaborations, or video/multimedia works. We are also seeking reviews of relevant books, events, courses, platforms, or projects.
Theory: Often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame that offer expansive interventions in the field. Blinded peer review. Length: 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Praxis: Analyses of particular cases that may apply a specific theory or framework to an artifact; explicate fan practice or formations; or perform a detailed reading of a text. Blinded peer review. Length: 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Symposium: Short pieces that provide insight into current developments and debates. Nonblinded editorial review. Length: 1,500–2,500 words.
Submissions are accepted online only. Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org). Contact We encourage potential contributors to contact the guest editors with inquiries or proposals: Jen Gunnels and Carrie J. Cole (fandom.performance AT gmail.com).
The call for papers is available here: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Due dates:
Contributions for blinded peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by March 1, 2014.
Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by April 1, 2014.
Jen Gunnels, New York Review of Science Fiction P.O. Box 78 Pleasantville NY 10570 Carrie J. Cole, University of Arizona, Tucson Theatre Film and Television P.O. Box 210003 Tucson AZ 85721-0003 (520) 621-3205
Email: fandom.performance@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Call for Papers Date: 2014-03-01
Date Submitted: 2011-12-19
Announcement ID: 190620
Call for papers Performing Fandom Special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, March 2015 Edited by Jen Gunnels (New York Review of Science Fiction) and Carrie J. Cole (University of Arizona, Tucson)
Surprisingly, fan studies and performance studies remain relative strangers in scholarship. With a few exceptions, there seems to be little crossover between fields in terms of analysis, theory, and methodology. Such a situation, on both sides of the equation, should be addressed given the potential productive overlap between the two. With this special issue, we want to encourage scholars of both fan and performance to open up further avenues of study and methodological practice in order to expand both fields to their mutual benefit. Fandom is a performed set of practices. It’s something that one does. For many, being a fan is a distinct part of their performed identity. This practice may take many forms, from the performativity inherent to fan writing to more blatant performances such as LARPs and cosplay. From the other side of the fence, performance studies has had little interaction with fan studies, and investigations into intersections between the disciplines around such issues as identity performance and participant/performer ethnographies would further energize both fields.
We invite scholars in fan studies and performance studies to examine how fandom is performed, what performance practices can reveal about fandom, and how fan studies can benefit performances. We welcome submissions dealing with, but not limited to, aspects of:
• Specific performance analysis of particular fandoms.
• Fan fiction as performative or dramaturgical.
• Identity and community performance in specific franchise fandoms and in general.
• Cosplay.
• Live-action role-playing games.
• Design and performance in nonfranchise fandoms such as steampunk.
• Fan communities and participation as applied to traditional performances.
• Online performance within fan listservs and sites.
Submission guidelines:
TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing. Contributors are encouraged to include embedded links, images, and videos in their articles or to propose submissions in alternative formats that might comprise interviews, collaborations, or video/multimedia works. We are also seeking reviews of relevant books, events, courses, platforms, or projects.
Theory: Often interdisciplinary essays with a conceptual focus and a theoretical frame that offer expansive interventions in the field. Blinded peer review. Length: 5,000–8,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Praxis: Analyses of particular cases that may apply a specific theory or framework to an artifact; explicate fan practice or formations; or perform a detailed reading of a text. Blinded peer review. Length: 4,000–7,000 words plus a 100–250-word abstract.
Symposium: Short pieces that provide insight into current developments and debates. Nonblinded editorial review. Length: 1,500–2,500 words.
Submissions are accepted online only. Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org). Contact We encourage potential contributors to contact the guest editors with inquiries or proposals: Jen Gunnels and Carrie J. Cole (fandom.performance AT gmail.com).
The call for papers is available here: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Due dates:
Contributions for blinded peer review (Theory and Praxis essays) are due by March 1, 2014.
Contributions that undergo editorial review (Symposium, Interview, Review) are due by April 1, 2014.
Jen Gunnels, New York Review of Science Fiction P.O. Box 78 Pleasantville NY 10570 Carrie J. Cole, University of Arizona, Tucson Theatre Film and Television P.O. Box 210003 Tucson AZ 85721-0003 (520) 621-3205
Email: fandom.performance@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/22
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance CFP (6/1/13)
Essay Collection: Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance
Publication Date: 2013-06-01 (in 30 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-02-05
Announcement ID: 201091
Articles about urban fantasy and romance novels are invited for a new, multi-contributor collection.
During the last few decades, urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels have come to the forefront in the publishing world. Normative heroes and heroines have been joined by werewolves, vampires, mermaids, shape-shifters, centaurs and dragons, to name but a few. These magical creatures fill the pages of books and the screens of movie theaters in ever-increasing numbers.
Such a vast industry—one that generated at least 75 million readers in 2008 alone (and has been growing since)—should not be disregarded. This collection will offer critical examinations of both urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Gender
• Race
• Sexuality
• Romance
• Desire
• Domesticity
• Power
• Monstrosity
• Witchcraft
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Vampires, Shapeshifters, and other Supernatural Creatures
• Hybridity
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Memory
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Margo Collins and Nadine Farghaly
Email: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Publication Date: 2013-06-01 (in 30 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-02-05
Announcement ID: 201091
Articles about urban fantasy and romance novels are invited for a new, multi-contributor collection.
During the last few decades, urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels have come to the forefront in the publishing world. Normative heroes and heroines have been joined by werewolves, vampires, mermaids, shape-shifters, centaurs and dragons, to name but a few. These magical creatures fill the pages of books and the screens of movie theaters in ever-increasing numbers.
Such a vast industry—one that generated at least 75 million readers in 2008 alone (and has been growing since)—should not be disregarded. This collection will offer critical examinations of both urban fantasy and paranormal romance.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Gender
• Race
• Sexuality
• Romance
• Desire
• Domesticity
• Power
• Monstrosity
• Witchcraft
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Vampires, Shapeshifters, and other Supernatural Creatures
• Hybridity
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Memory
What to Send:
300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by December 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Margo Collins and Nadine Farghaly
Email: paranormalromance.urbanfantasy@gmail.com
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time Travel in the Media CFP (6/16/13)
CFP: Time Travel in the Media edited collectionCall for Papers Date: 2013-06-16
Date Submitted: 2013-03-18
Announcement ID: 202340
We are currently seeking chapter proposals for the first collection of essay to address time travel across different media formats. The collection, to be be published by McFarland, will be edited by Joan Ormrod (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Matthew Jones (UCL).
Time travel has been a topic that has fascinated the media since the 19th century. Indeed, cinema has used flashbacks and montage since its earliest days to experiment with time. However, film is not the only medium fascinated by the concept. Television series such as Doctor Who (1963-1989, 1996 and 2005-present), Quantum Leap (1989-1993), The Time Tunnel (1966-1967) and Torchwood (2006-2011) explore history and play with notions of time as a social construct. Video games, manga and animé also examine time travel's unique narrative possibilities, for instance in The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (1998) or Final Fantasy XIII-2 (2011). Graphic novels such as Watchmen (1986-1987) and superhero narratives use time travel to explore heroes’ ingenuity and the problems created by paradoxes.
Time travel narratives have invoked socio-historic concerns for subjectivity, narrativity, history, the future and potential apocalypse. The future and the past are frequently depicted as a means of understanding the problems of the present. Lately, time travel narratives have used philosophical issues based on scientific theories such as string theory, multiple universes and the philosophical construction of time. Contemporary time travel stories also acknowledge the potential for experimentation in media narratives. Such diversity surely requires more scrutiny in academic discourse. This collection of essays will be the first dedicated solely to the topic.
The collection is aimed at:
• undergraduate and postgraduate students in film and media, cultural studies, philosophy, social sciences, history and science programmes.
• science fiction and fantasy fandoms across a range of media.
The volume will address a broad range of media, including television, cinema, video games, anime and manga, comics and graphic novels and radio plays. It will be divided into five sections addressing narrative and media form, time travel as genre, philosophical and theoretical concepts, time and culture and a number of case studies
We are currently inviting 500-word proposals for 5000-7000 word chapters. These might address, but need not be limited to, the following topics:
• Adaptation and the differences between time in media forms
• Parallel worlds/alternative realities in virtual media, gaming and avatars
• Narrative devices such as the causal time loop
• Cinematic and media apparatus as time machine
• Experimental and avant garde depictions of time and time travel
• Narrative tropes
• Key characters - H. G. Wells, The Doctor, Sam Becket, Marty McFly
• Iconography - the time travel machine, distinguishing the past/future from the present
• The adaptability of the time travel narrative to many genres - science fiction, fantasy, romance, teenpics
• The depiction of history and historical characters
• The rules and regulations of time travel and parallel worlds
• The experience and means of time travel (machine, magic, supernatural)
• Use of specific theoretical models of narrative interrogation, such as psychoanalytic, carnivalesque, discursive, Deleuzian, Ricoeur, Bergson, postmodern and semiotic perspectives or new theoretical contexts
• Philosophical considerations, such as free will and determinism, religious and ritualistic perspectives
• String theory and parallel universes
• Socio-historic notions of time (linear time, cyclical time, the Enlightenment and the mythic)
• Tourism - cosmopolitanism, the flâneur
• Time-travel narratives within the context of their socio-historic production
• Case studies which examine a specific aspect of time travel in one text.
Proposals along with a 50 word biography should be sent to timetravelcollection@gmail.com
Deadline: 16 June 2013
Joan Ormrod
Manchester Metropolitan University
Chatham 307
Manchester 44 161 247 1938
Email: timetravelcollection@gmail.com
CW's Superrnatural CFP (5/15/13)
One more from supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com for the night:Essay Collection: CW's "Supernatural" television
Publication Date: 2013-05-15 (in 18 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-01-22
Announcement ID: 200641
Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of the CW television series Supernatural.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Desire and Sexuality
• Hybridity
• Vampires
• Shapeshifters
• Ghosts and Hauntings
• Demons and Angels
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Desire
• History and Memory
• Family
• Power
• Possession and/or Mind Control
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by May 15, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by October 15, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Supernatural Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Vampire Diaries Collection CFP (5/1/13)
Almost missed this one (though I'm starting to feel like I'm advertising for supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com). The Vampire Diaries (2009-) is a very popular series and a spin-off on The Originals has recently been announced for the fall.Essay Collection: "The Vampire Diaries"
Publication Date: 2013-05-01 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-01-22
Announcement ID: 200642
Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of The Vampire Diaries (either the original books or the CW’s television series).
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Vampirism
• Shapeshifters
• Hybridity
• Witchcraft
• Heroism
• Villainy
• Adolescence
• Desire
\• History
• Memory
• Domesticity
• Power
• Possession and/or Mind Control
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by May 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by October 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Vampire Diaries Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Zombie/Comedy CFP (6/1/13)
Another zombie collection. (See also a CFP on The Walking Dead at our comics blog.)
Edited Collection: Zombies and Comedy
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-01-30
Announcement ID: 200898
The recent re-animation of the zombie in popular culture has led to the creation of the “zombie romantic comedy,” or the zomromcom. Examples of zombie comedies can be found in books, movies, and on the internet. Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of zombie comedies (romantic or otherwise).
The following categories suggest possibilities for exploration but are by no means exhaustive:
• Love and zombies/the undead
• Love in the postapocalyptic world
• Romance and monstrosity
• Fandom and/or reception
• Transformation and/or adaptation in zombie comedies
• Gender
• Race
• Hybridity
• History and Memory
• Sex and the undead
• The literary zombie comedy
• The cinematic zombie comedy
• Zombie comedies and the internet
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by November 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “ZomCom” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Edited Collection: Zombies and Comedy
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-01-30
Announcement ID: 200898
The recent re-animation of the zombie in popular culture has led to the creation of the “zombie romantic comedy,” or the zomromcom. Examples of zombie comedies can be found in books, movies, and on the internet. Articles are invited for an edited collection on issues related to any element of zombie comedies (romantic or otherwise).
The following categories suggest possibilities for exploration but are by no means exhaustive:
• Love and zombies/the undead
• Love in the postapocalyptic world
• Romance and monstrosity
• Fandom and/or reception
• Transformation and/or adaptation in zombie comedies
• Gender
• Race
• Hybridity
• History and Memory
• Sex and the undead
• The literary zombie comedy
• The cinematic zombie comedy
• Zombie comedies and the internet
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by November 1, 2013.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “ZomCom” in your subject line.
Dr. Margo Collins
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
MTV's Teen Wolf Collection CFP (6/1/13)
Essay Collection: MTV's Teen WolfPublication Date: 2013-06-01
Date Submitted: 2013-02-19
Announcement ID: 201568
Articles are invited for an essay collection on the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf. In “Upright Citizens on All Fours: Nineteenth-Century Identity and the Image of the Werewolf,” Chantal Bourgault du Coudray notes that ‘an ever-growing body of scholarship utilises the concept of hybrid or heterogeneous identity. The hybrid identity is theorised and celebrated as a response to the demands of a fragmented, multi-dimensional, postmodern world, one in which shifting boundaries and a multiplicity of subject positions make it impossible to assume a homogeneous or stable subjectivity.’ Theorists such as Katherine Hayles and Donna Haraway discuss the implications of hybridity in the posthuman. Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle deal with the monstrosity of hybridity. Many critics discuss iterations of the werewolf in literature and film. This volume aims to discuss the new MTV serial remake of Teen Wolf in terms of its connection to the popular and literary culture, though other approaches are welcome, as well.
The following categories suggest possibilities but are by no means exhaustive:
• Monstrosity and/or Hybridity
• Fandom and/or Reception
• Personal Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Genre Transformation and/or Adaptation
• Gender
• Race
• Desire and Sexuality
• Heroism and/or Villainy
• History and Memory
• Family
• Power
We are also interested in the intersections of Teen Wolf with:
• the werewolf in 19th century literary history
• the werewolf in 20th century literary history
• post humanism in teen culture
• the werewolf in the 1980s
• the werewolf in Comics (such as the werewolf in Dell comics, Marvel comics, Legends of the Dark Night)
• the werewolf in fairy tales and/or folk mythology
• the werewolf in American pulp fiction
• the werewolf in children’s literature
• the werewolf in adult television (True Blood, Doctor Who, Sanctuary, Grimm)
• the werewolf in games or anime
What to Send: 300 - 500 word abstracts (or complete articles, if available) and CVs should be submitted by June 1, 2013. If an abstract is accepted for the collection, a full draft of the essay (5000 – 8000 words) will be required by January 1, 2014.
Abstracts and final articles should be submitted to supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com. Please include “Teen Wolf Submission” in your subject line.
Dr. Kamille Stone Stanton
supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Email: supernaturaltelevision@gmail.com
Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy CFP (4/30/13 MPCA/MPCA)
Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy
Location: Missouri, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2013-04-30 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-26
Announcement ID: 202555
Dear Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy Scholars, this is your invitation to SUBMIT to the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, from Friday through Sunday, October 11-13, 2013.
Going too far in these genre may actually just be considered a good starting point, and genre-bending is invited. Don't resist. You want to submit. You need to submit. Nothing good is off-limits.
All details are available from this page < https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf>.
Is Chuck Palahniuk truly transgressive horror, a postmodern Arthur Machen, or more like Christopher Moore tweaking on meth with a beat up copy of Gray’s Anatomy in his lap? Why wasn’t John Dies at the End the next Naked Lunch? Was The Cabin in the Woods a revival of “smart horror” or was it just a prequel for the revisioning of Evil Dead? Think The Walking Dead is yet another tragicomic soap opera? What about the writings of “humanistic humorists” such as Vonnegut, Twain, or Carlin? What of posthumanism? What can an “Americanist perspective” gain from the mad genius of giallo or Theatre du Grand-Guignol, or, for that matter, Alan Moore, Florence Foresti, Eddie Izzard, Roald Dahl, Peter Jackson, Aldous Huxley, or Ricky Gervais? Beyond the obvious, that is. But you don’t have to limit yourself to that humor/horror mashup if it’s not your thing. What of the classic horrific humorists/ironists such as H.H. Munro, Shirley Jackson, Washington Irving, or Dorothy Parker? Has “web2.0” (Twitter, YouTube, indie web movie sites, blogs, that stuff) significantly changed the way humor or horror/SF/fantasy gets distributed or consumed in some way that’s not obvious? If so, was Serenity proof of it, or the exception? What else ya got? Straight-up humor or horror or SF or fantasy? Dandy!
John A Dowell
Michigan State University
434 Farm Lane, Rm 202, Bessey Hall
Phone: 517.884.3686
(please use submissions.mpcaaca.org)
(all here: https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf)
Email: jdowell@msu.edu
Visit the website at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org
Location: Missouri, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2013-04-30 (in 4 days)
Date Submitted: 2013-03-26
Announcement ID: 202555
Dear Humor & Horror/SF/Fantasy Scholars, this is your invitation to SUBMIT to the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, from Friday through Sunday, October 11-13, 2013.
Going too far in these genre may actually just be considered a good starting point, and genre-bending is invited. Don't resist. You want to submit. You need to submit. Nothing good is off-limits.
All details are available from this page < https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf>.
Is Chuck Palahniuk truly transgressive horror, a postmodern Arthur Machen, or more like Christopher Moore tweaking on meth with a beat up copy of Gray’s Anatomy in his lap? Why wasn’t John Dies at the End the next Naked Lunch? Was The Cabin in the Woods a revival of “smart horror” or was it just a prequel for the revisioning of Evil Dead? Think The Walking Dead is yet another tragicomic soap opera? What about the writings of “humanistic humorists” such as Vonnegut, Twain, or Carlin? What of posthumanism? What can an “Americanist perspective” gain from the mad genius of giallo or Theatre du Grand-Guignol, or, for that matter, Alan Moore, Florence Foresti, Eddie Izzard, Roald Dahl, Peter Jackson, Aldous Huxley, or Ricky Gervais? Beyond the obvious, that is. But you don’t have to limit yourself to that humor/horror mashup if it’s not your thing. What of the classic horrific humorists/ironists such as H.H. Munro, Shirley Jackson, Washington Irving, or Dorothy Parker? Has “web2.0” (Twitter, YouTube, indie web movie sites, blogs, that stuff) significantly changed the way humor or horror/SF/fantasy gets distributed or consumed in some way that’s not obvious? If so, was Serenity proof of it, or the exception? What else ya got? Straight-up humor or horror or SF or fantasy? Dandy!
John A Dowell
Michigan State University
434 Farm Lane, Rm 202, Bessey Hall
Phone: 517.884.3686
(please use submissions.mpcaaca.org)
(all here: https://www.msu.edu/user/jdowell/MPCA/MPCA-2013CFP-HumorHorror.pdf)
Email: jdowell@msu.edu
Visit the website at http://submissions.mpcaaca.org
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Science Fiction Studies Update
Not sure how far behind I am/was with regards to Science Fiction Studies, but the journal's website includes contents details for the last six issues at http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/recent_issues.htm and the journal is now available on JSTOR at http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/sciefictstud/about.html.
Extrapolation Spring 2013
The latest issue of Extrapolation is now available. Contents can be accessed from the new publisher, Liverpool UP, at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/p15186u62165/?p=f95244ee51914e20b18b5add454be9b3&pi=0.
Older content is also on Metapress at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/.
Bardolatry, Fantasy, and Elvish Glamour
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.3 |
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SF, Philip K. Dick, and the Space Age
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.4 |
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E. R. Eddison's Easter manifesto
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| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.5 |
| Author | Joseph Rex Young |
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| Pages | 95-127 |
| DOI | 10.3828/extr.2013.6 |
Older content is also on Metapress at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/.
Science Fiction Studies No. 119 for March 2013
Forever catching up:
ARTICLES SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica Hollinger)
Science Fiction Studies
#119 = Volume 40, Part 1 = March 2013
ARTICLES SPECIAL ISSUE ON CHINESE SCIENCE FICTION (Edited by Yan Wu and Veronica Hollinger)
- Han Song. Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization
- Liu Cixin. Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature
- Nathaniel Isaacson. Science Fiction for the Nation: Tales of the Moon Colony and the Birth of Modern Chinese Fiction
- Shaoling Ma. “A Tale of New Mr. Braggadocio”: Narrative Subjectivity and Brain Electricity in Late Qing Science Fiction
- Michael Saler. Science, the Paranormal, and Science Fiction: Cheng’s Astounding Wonder and Kripal’s Mutants and Mystics
- Nicholas Ruddick. Unheimlich Maneuvers: Beaumont’s The Spectre of Utopia and James’s Maps of Utopia
- Clarke’s Conversations with Jonathan Lethem and Lethem’s The Ecstasy of Influence (Paweł Frelik)
- Gaspar’s The Time Ship: A Chrononautical Journey (David Wittenberg)
- Dillon’s Walking the Clouds (Amy Ransom)
- Murphy/Vint’s Beyond Cyberpunk (Gerry Canavan)
- Page’s The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells: Science Evolution, and Ecology (Patrick Parrinder)
- Schmeink/Böger’s Collision of Realities and Schmeink/Müller’s Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik (Franz Rottensteiner)
- Smith’s The Journalism of H.G. Wells (John Huntington)
- Stallings/Evans’s Murray Leinster: The Life and Works (Joe Sanders)
- Westfahl’s The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 (J.P. Telotte)
- Zgorzelski’s Born of the Fantastic (Grzegorz Trźbicki)
- Cutting Up in der Kunsthalle (Rob Latham)
- The Politics of Adaptation Conference (Gerry Canavan)
- The PKD Festival in San Francisco (Umberto Rossi)
- Tales from the British Museum (Roger Luckhurst)
- Fi-Sci (Alexis Kirke and Eduardo Miranda)
- The Posthuman at Home (Hallvard Haug)
- “Sounds of Space” Workshop (Paweł Frelik)
- Who Originated the Term “Chronoclasm”? (David Ketterer)
- A Feminist Utopia for Annie Denton Cridge? (Taryne Jade Taylor)
- SFS Symposium at the 2013 Eaton/SFRA Conference (SFS editors)
CFP Frankenstein and Adaptation (6/30/13)
Thanks to Gene Kannenberg of Comics Research & Such for the head's up:
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
Paper proposals should be around 300-450 words and should reflect current inter-textual approaches in adaptation theory. They might ask such questions as how an adaptation engages its source(s), our culture, and, perhaps, other adaptations; the relevance of a particular adaptation in the context of its time and culture; the significance of the monster’s role as cultural icon or matrix figure; how an adaptation changes our view of the source text, etc. Studies on adaption such as Hutcheon, The Theory of Adaptation, Leitch, Film Adaptation and its Discontents, Perry and Sederholm, Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture, and Albrecht-Crane and Cutchins, Adaptation Studies: New Approaches provide model adaptation studies and theory along the lines we suggest. We expect that successful articles will be rigorous and scholarly, but accessible to a more general audience.
Send proposals to Professors Dennis R. Perry (dperry@byu.edu) or Dennis Cutchins (dennis_cutchins@byu.edu) before June 30, 2013.
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture
We propose to edit a book of new essays on the general
subject of the many ways Frankenstein has been adapted in popular
culture, including films, television, radio, graphic novels, comic
books, newspaper cartoons, music, the stage, novels, short stories,
children’s and adolescent literatures, new media, and so forth.
We are interested in what has made Frankenstein’s monster so indestructibly fascinating to the public mind through the many generations since his inception in 1818—almost 200 years ago! We are interested in essays that explore the creature’s versatile ability to appear as threatening monster or sympathetic high school loser, as Milton the Monster or Frankenweenie, as eternal outsider refined in a Tibetan monastery or as a cloned sheep. We are also interested in indirect adaptations: Edward Scissorhands, The Stepford Wives, The Golem, The Colossus of New York, Godzilla and other spawn of the atomic age, as well as zombies and the various replicants, androids, robots, and re-animations.
We are interested in what has made Frankenstein’s monster so indestructibly fascinating to the public mind through the many generations since his inception in 1818—almost 200 years ago! We are interested in essays that explore the creature’s versatile ability to appear as threatening monster or sympathetic high school loser, as Milton the Monster or Frankenweenie, as eternal outsider refined in a Tibetan monastery or as a cloned sheep. We are also interested in indirect adaptations: Edward Scissorhands, The Stepford Wives, The Golem, The Colossus of New York, Godzilla and other spawn of the atomic age, as well as zombies and the various replicants, androids, robots, and re-animations.
Paper proposals should be around 300-450 words and should reflect current inter-textual approaches in adaptation theory. They might ask such questions as how an adaptation engages its source(s), our culture, and, perhaps, other adaptations; the relevance of a particular adaptation in the context of its time and culture; the significance of the monster’s role as cultural icon or matrix figure; how an adaptation changes our view of the source text, etc. Studies on adaption such as Hutcheon, The Theory of Adaptation, Leitch, Film Adaptation and its Discontents, Perry and Sederholm, Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in Popular Culture, and Albrecht-Crane and Cutchins, Adaptation Studies: New Approaches provide model adaptation studies and theory along the lines we suggest. We expect that successful articles will be rigorous and scholarly, but accessible to a more general audience.
Send proposals to Professors Dennis R. Perry (dperry@byu.edu) or Dennis Cutchins (dennis_cutchins@byu.edu) before June 30, 2013.
Journal of Popular Culture February 2013
Catching up:
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 46.1, February 2013
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
Brigman Award Winner “Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries” by Mary Bridgeman
“The Sand/wo/man: The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series” by Ally Brisbin and Paul Booth
“Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the Varieties of Middle-Class Resistance to Consumer Culture in late Twentieth-Century North America” by Joshua Blu Buhs
“Broadcasting Diversity: Alan Lomax and Multiculturalism” by Rachel C. Donaldson
“The White Savior and his Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957)” by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
“Cowboys of the High Seas: Representations of Working-Class Masculinity on Deadliest Catch” by Lisa A. Kirby
“Hansberry’s Hidden Transcript” by Lisbeth Lipari
“The Monomyth in Star Trek (2009): Kirk & Spock Together Again for the First Time” by Donald Palumbo
“Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne: Engaged Visibility through Identity Orchestration and the Language of Hip-Hop Narratives” by David Wall Rice
“Don’t It Make My Black Face Blue: Race, Avatars, Albescence, and the Transnational Imaginary” by John G. Russell
Book Reviews
Milestone, Katie and Anneke Meyer. Gender & Popular Culture. Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Reviewed by Heather McIntosh.
Tresca, Michael J. The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011. Reviewed by Christopher T. Conner.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jennifer Forsberg.
Paoletti, Jo B. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Tanfer Emin Tunc.
Edgerton, Gary R., Ed. Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Reviewed by Gretchen Dietz.
Strong, Catherine. Grunge: Music and Memory. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Reviewed by Hilarie Ashton.
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn. Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 2012. Reviewed by Anthony Metivier.
Negra, Diane, Ed. Old and New Media After Katrina. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Reviewed by Kimberly Springer.
Hay, Simon. A History of the Modern British Ghost Story. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Taryn Norman.
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 46.1, February 2013
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
Brigman Award Winner “Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries” by Mary Bridgeman
“The Sand/wo/man: The Unstable Worlds of Gender in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series” by Ally Brisbin and Paul Booth
“Camping with Bigfoot: Sasquatch and the Varieties of Middle-Class Resistance to Consumer Culture in late Twentieth-Century North America” by Joshua Blu Buhs
“Broadcasting Diversity: Alan Lomax and Multiculturalism” by Rachel C. Donaldson
“The White Savior and his Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957)” by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
“Cowboys of the High Seas: Representations of Working-Class Masculinity on Deadliest Catch” by Lisa A. Kirby
“Hansberry’s Hidden Transcript” by Lisbeth Lipari
“The Monomyth in Star Trek (2009): Kirk & Spock Together Again for the First Time” by Donald Palumbo
“Rakim, Ice Cube then Watch the Throne: Engaged Visibility through Identity Orchestration and the Language of Hip-Hop Narratives” by David Wall Rice
“Don’t It Make My Black Face Blue: Race, Avatars, Albescence, and the Transnational Imaginary” by John G. Russell
Book Reviews
Milestone, Katie and Anneke Meyer. Gender & Popular Culture. Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Reviewed by Heather McIntosh.
Tresca, Michael J. The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2011. Reviewed by Christopher T. Conner.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Reviewed by Jennifer Forsberg.
Paoletti, Jo B. Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Reviewed by Tanfer Emin Tunc.
Edgerton, Gary R., Ed. Mad Men: Dream Come True TV. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. Reviewed by Gretchen Dietz.
Strong, Catherine. Grunge: Music and Memory. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. Reviewed by Hilarie Ashton.
Jess-Cooke, Carolyn. Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 2012. Reviewed by Anthony Metivier.
Negra, Diane, Ed. Old and New Media After Katrina. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Reviewed by Kimberly Springer.
Hay, Simon. A History of the Modern British Ghost Story. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Reviewed by Taryn Norman.
Journal of Popular Culture December 2012
Catching up:
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 45.6, December 2012
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie” by Nicole Birch-Bayley
“Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage” by Donna Campbell
“Failure to Launch: Not-So-Superheroes in Gravity’s Rainbow and Superfolks” by Megan Condis
“Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach’s Vampire Story ‘Wake Not the Dead’” by Heide Crawford
“Challenging Lilywhite Hollywood: African Americans and the Demand for Racial Equality in the Motion Picture Industry, 1963-1974” by Andrew Dawson
“The Accidental Supermom: Superheroines and Maternal Performativity, 1963-1980” by Laura Mattoon D’Amore
“Smiles of Oblivion: Demonic Clowns and Doomed Puppets as Fantastic Figures of Absurdity, Chaos, and Misanthropy in the Writings of Thomas Ligotti” by Jason Marc Harris
“The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen” by Erin M. Keating
“A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West Series in the 1960s” by Yan Liang
“Shock Corridors: The New Rhetoric of Horror in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant” by Jennifer A. Rich
BOOK REVIEWS
Hatfield, Charles. Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012. Reviewed by Matthew Costello.
Athanasourelis, John Paul. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed. McFarland & Company, 2012. Reviewed by Len Gutkin.
Gill, D.C. How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Bob Johnson.
Vinegar, Aron. I am a Monument, On Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Reviewed by Sally L. Levine.
Lehman, Katherine J. Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Reviewed by Chadwick Roberts.
Wetzel, Richard D. The Globalization of Music in History. New York: Routledge, 2012. Reviewed by Mindy Clegg.
Hochscherf, Tobias and James Leggott, eds. British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2011. Reviewed by Julie Anne Taddeo.
The Journal of Popular Culture
Vol. 45.6, December 2012
Editorial Gary Hoppenstand
Articles
“Terror in Horror Genres: The Global Media and the Millennial Zombie” by Nicole Birch-Bayley
“Edith Wharton Meets Aquaman: The Glimpses of the Moon and Imperiled Male Culture in Entourage” by Donna Campbell
“Failure to Launch: Not-So-Superheroes in Gravity’s Rainbow and Superfolks” by Megan Condis
“Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach’s Vampire Story ‘Wake Not the Dead’” by Heide Crawford
“Challenging Lilywhite Hollywood: African Americans and the Demand for Racial Equality in the Motion Picture Industry, 1963-1974” by Andrew Dawson
“The Accidental Supermom: Superheroines and Maternal Performativity, 1963-1980” by Laura Mattoon D’Amore
“Smiles of Oblivion: Demonic Clowns and Doomed Puppets as Fantastic Figures of Absurdity, Chaos, and Misanthropy in the Writings of Thomas Ligotti” by Jason Marc Harris
“The Female Link: Citation and Continuity in Watchmen” by Erin M. Keating
“A Myth about the Present: The Shaw Brothers’ The Monkey Goes West Series in the 1960s” by Yan Liang
“Shock Corridors: The New Rhetoric of Horror in Gus Van Sant’s Elephant” by Jennifer A. Rich
BOOK REVIEWS
Hatfield, Charles. Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012. Reviewed by Matthew Costello.
Athanasourelis, John Paul. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed. McFarland & Company, 2012. Reviewed by Len Gutkin.
Gill, D.C. How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom. New York: Routledge, 2010. Reviewed by Bob Johnson.
Vinegar, Aron. I am a Monument, On Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Reviewed by Sally L. Levine.
Lehman, Katherine J. Those Girls: Single Women in Sixties and Seventies Popular Culture. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. Reviewed by Chadwick Roberts.
Wetzel, Richard D. The Globalization of Music in History. New York: Routledge, 2012. Reviewed by Mindy Clegg.
Hochscherf, Tobias and James Leggott, eds. British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2011. Reviewed by Julie Anne Taddeo.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
NEPCA Fantastic 2013 Updated CFP
Here's the revised CFP for this fall.
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
GENRE CROSSINGS: EXPLOITING THE GENERIC FLUIDITY OF THE FANTASTIC
FIFTH-ANNIVERSARY SESSIONS OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Online at NEPCA Fantastic: http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2013 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont 25-26 October 2013
Proposals by 10 June 2013
Formed in 2009, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2013, and, in commemoration of this event, we seek proposals from scholars of all levels for papers that explore the interrelationships between the various aspects of the intermedia traditions of the fantastic (including, but not limited to, elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, and legends) and how creative artists have altered our preconceptions of these subtraditions by producing, in diverse countries and time periods and for audiences at all levels, innovative, genre-crossing or (perhaps) genre-breaking works. Please see our website NEPCA Fantastic (http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/) for further details and ideas.
Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length (depending on final panel size). If you are interested in proposing a paper or panel of papers, please send a copy of the NEPCA Paper Proposal Form (appended below) with your proposal of approximately 250 to 400 words AND a one-page CV to both the Program Chairs AND to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair at the following addresses (please note "NEPCA Fantastic Proposal 2013" in your subject line):
Program Chairs:
Robert Niemi (rniemi@smcvt.edu)
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman (Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu)
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair:
Michael A. Torregrossa (Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com)
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (http://nepca.wordpress.com/) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public.
NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency.
NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.
Membership in NEPCA is required for participation. Annual dues are currently $30 for full-time faculty and $15 to all other individuals. Further details are available at http://nepca.wordpress.com/ (see the "Membership Information" tab). =================================================================== NEPCA PAPER PROPOSAL FORM (please include in your email) (Send a one-page CV to the program and area chair when you submit this form)
Name: (Exactly as you’d like to see it listed. (No titles listed.)
Affiliation: (As you’d like to see it listed. (Choose just one. If none at present, use Independent Scholar.)
E-mail: (List the one you consult most regularly.)
Phone: (List the one you use most.)
Abstract: Please confine this abstract to 250 to 400 words. Bear in mind that it must be understandable to a committee, some of whose members may not be experts in your discipline. NEPCA also encourages the use of “plain”speech over specialized jargon.
===================================================================== Michael A. Torregrossa Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
34 2nd St Smithfield, RI 02917
Email: popular.culture.and.the.middle.ages@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
GENRE CROSSINGS: EXPLOITING THE GENERIC FLUIDITY OF THE FANTASTIC
FIFTH-ANNIVERSARY SESSIONS OF THE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, AND LEGEND AREA
Online at NEPCA Fantastic: http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
2013 Conference of The Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont 25-26 October 2013
Proposals by 10 June 2013
Formed in 2009, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2013, and, in commemoration of this event, we seek proposals from scholars of all levels for papers that explore the interrelationships between the various aspects of the intermedia traditions of the fantastic (including, but not limited to, elements of science fiction, fantasy, fairy tale, gothic, and legends) and how creative artists have altered our preconceptions of these subtraditions by producing, in diverse countries and time periods and for audiences at all levels, innovative, genre-crossing or (perhaps) genre-breaking works. Please see our website NEPCA Fantastic (http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/) for further details and ideas.
Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes in length (depending on final panel size). If you are interested in proposing a paper or panel of papers, please send a copy of the NEPCA Paper Proposal Form (appended below) with your proposal of approximately 250 to 400 words AND a one-page CV to both the Program Chairs AND to the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Chair at the following addresses (please note "NEPCA Fantastic Proposal 2013" in your subject line):
Program Chairs:
Robert Niemi (rniemi@smcvt.edu)
Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman (Jennifer.Tebbe@mcphs.edu)
Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair:
Michael A. Torregrossa (Popular.Culture.and.the.Middle.Ages@gmail.com)
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (http://nepca.wordpress.com/) was founded in 1974 as a professional organization for scholars living in New England and New York. It is a community of scholars interested in advancing research and promoting interest in the disciplines of popular and/or American culture. NEPCA’s membership consists of university and college faculty members, emeriti faculty, secondary school teachers, museum specialists, graduate students, independent scholars, and interested members of the general public.
NEPCA is an independently funded affiliate of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Membership is open to all interested parties, regardless of profession, rank, or residency.
NEPCA holds an annual conference that invites scholars from around the globe to participate. In an effort to keep costs low, it meets on college campuses throughout the region.
Membership in NEPCA is required for participation. Annual dues are currently $30 for full-time faculty and $15 to all other individuals. Further details are available at http://nepca.wordpress.com/ (see the "Membership Information" tab). =================================================================== NEPCA PAPER PROPOSAL FORM (please include in your email) (Send a one-page CV to the program and area chair when you submit this form)
Name: (Exactly as you’d like to see it listed. (No titles listed.)
Affiliation: (As you’d like to see it listed. (Choose just one. If none at present, use Independent Scholar.)
E-mail: (List the one you consult most regularly.)
Phone: (List the one you use most.)
Abstract: Please confine this abstract to 250 to 400 words. Bear in mind that it must be understandable to a committee, some of whose members may not be experts in your discipline. NEPCA also encourages the use of “plain”speech over specialized jargon.
===================================================================== Michael A. Torregrossa Science Fiction, Fantasy and Legend Area Chair
34 2nd St Smithfield, RI 02917
Email: popular.culture.and.the.middle.ages@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://sf-fantasy-legend.blogspot.com/
Friday, March 22, 2013
Beautiful Creatures the Movie
Out now from Warner Bros.
Additional clips at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVfin74Qx3tUqDc6Z5obiFlE2u-DTCFHw.
Additional clips at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVfin74Qx3tUqDc6Z5obiFlE2u-DTCFHw.
Wreck-It Ralph on Video
Meant to post something on this sooner; it looks like an interesting film:
More videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-muvh_380IY5N8-dQ9_hk-ytv9AMcN7H.
More videos at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-muvh_380IY5N8-dQ9_hk-ytv9AMcN7H.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Return to Neverland News
An upcoming release revealed (appropriately) in the packaging for Peter Pan Diamond Edition:
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