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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP- Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months ago

Early film provides a wealth of information about Victorian performance practices, and Victorian theatre greatly influenced the development of film. Both points have been well documented by David Mayer, among others, as exciting new work continues to demonstrate. But there is much more to be learned and said about the reciprocal relationship b…[Read more]
Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Infinite Summer: Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network in the group MS Sound on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago

This chapter explores the Infinite Summer reading project, in which a group of bloggers read and discussed David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in dialogue with one another and with a wide readership, arguing that such social reading projects present the potential for developing crucial kinds of ethical human connection (of which the novel depicts…[Read more]
Bhakti Shringarpure started the topic Great post by Kenneth Harrow on the African Film Fest in Burkina Fa in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago

For film folks, the premier scholar on African Cinema, Kenneth Harrow, has a dispatch from this years FESPACO in Burkina Faso. There’s short reviews of films that Harrow finds notable and some thoughts on where the festival is as viable and important as in the past. Check out “Has the Magic Gone Out of Africa’s Largest Film Festi…[Read more]
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. October 16 and Sat. October 17, 2015 in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years ago

Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and Resolutions
Featured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster

Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512

We live in a society that has conflict among different soci…[Read more]
Lisa Stein Haven started the topic MAD Magazine Special Offer AHSA in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago

***SPECIAL OFFER***
Studies in American Humor has additional copies of its landmark, jumbo special MAD issue (n.s. 3, no 30, fall 2014) with guest coeditor John Bird—
“MAD MAGAZINE AND ITS LEGACIES”
a splendiferous 224 pp. issue devoted to one of the most important American comic innovations of all time
For new members, or members who were not m…[Read more]
David Pratt started the topic CFP: MLA 16 Special Session – The Publics of Charles Bukowski and Henry Chinaski in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago

This panel will consider the audiences for Bukowski’s oeuvre and public self in conversation with the social milieus of his fictional counterpart, Chinaski. Specific topics panelists might explore include, but are not limited to:

Bukowski/Chinaski and media other than print (film, television, audio recording, etc.)
The varying nature of…[Read more]
Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago

Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline once e…[Read more]
Verena Kick started the topic CFP MLA 2016: Readers, Listeners, Viewers, Users in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month ago

Call for Papers

2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX

Forum: 20th- and 21st-Century German LLC

Readers, Viewers, Listeners, Users

What ever happened to readers, and do they have a future? For all the work that has been done on the state of reading in today’s world, the audience remains a problem. Or does it? In film studies, a discipline o…[Read more]
María Gil Poisa replied to the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the discussion Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months ago

Deadline extended until January 31st. Please, see below:

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program…[Read more]
María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months ago

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M…[Read more]
María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months ago

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE TITLE:

BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA

Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by:

Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University

Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University

Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M…[Read more]
Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months ago

Dear Jeremy,

thank you so much!

I feel very grateful and slightly guilty to have provoked such a detailed response. I had a look at some of the lists you suggest, and, of course, I have my own favorites (some of which you mention), but I was curious to see what people here in the MLA forum would say…

P.S. Among the books I haven’t read yet,…[Read more]
Jeremy Douglass replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months ago

Literary scholarship for book-loving non-academics? That is a really interesting (and quite broad) challenge. I like the idea of promoting literary criticism to a broad audience — whether through public reviews or through holiday gift-giving.

It occurs to me that the top social book platforms on the web may already have an approximate answer to…[Read more]
Sharon Shaloo replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago

James Woods would seem to fill your bill. HOW FICTION WORKS is the more “litcrit,” to invoke your categorization, and THE FUN STUFF has gestures to other arts/performance. Both are wonderfully readable.

Sharon Shaloo, Mass Center for the Book
Alexandra Berlina replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago

not a litcrit book, alas — still, thank you!
Patrick Crapanzano replied to the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago

Dear Alexandra,

I like the idea of your post. One book that comes to mind is A Brave Vessel, by Hobson Woodward. It doesn’t have the pop-currency potential as Will of the World, but it’s approachable for normal people interested in The Tempest and the Sea Venture’s wreck on Bermuda.
Alexandra Berlina started the topic literary scholarship for non-academic pleasure in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago

Dear all,

could you recommend me works of literary scholarship which book-loving non-academic might enjoy? I don’t mean book reviews, but texts like Brodsky’s and Nabokov’s essays, or Greenblatt’sWill in the World. Thank you very much! I hope I’m not the only one interested in showing friends what it is we as a species actually do: perhaps w…[Read more]
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago

View the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals

Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch O…[Read more]
Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish / Portuguese) in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago

Advertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer…[Read more]
Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago

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This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends a…[Read more]
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