“Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture” Conference at Leipzig University, Germany Institute for American Studies 22-23 May 2025 Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert From the freak shows of the 19th century to contemporary odd, extraordinary, or otherwise exceptional characters, the ‘freak’ as a figure has seen tremendous popularity throughout US literature
We are planning a peer-reviewed special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia focused on the topics of individuality and community in mid-century American culture (1945-1964), inviting explorations of the literature, film, art, and thought of the period. We seek 8,000-word articles that focus either on individual writers/artists/thinkers in the period or engage with the topic more broadly.
Dennis Wheatley sold around one million books a year at the height of his popularity and over 50 million in total.
Final Call for Papers Push: Childbirth in Global Screen Culture Amy C. Chambers, Xi W. Liu, Kate Taylor-Jones, Proposals due: 1st July 2024 After an impressive response to our initial call for papers we are in the process of bringing together an edited collection on this topic.
Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak): ‘ It might have been a he. They [his wives] weren’t all women .’ Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén): ‘ You could do that back then? ’ Nandor the Relentless: ‘ Of course. Some of my wives were girl wives, some of them were guy wives.
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ (Austen, 1813: 1). As has no doubt become clear across this series of blogs, Succession has a lot of things happening simultaneously.
Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to a special issue of Television & New Media on streaming production cultures. Over the past two decades, major tech companies like Netflix and Amazon have become central players in the screen industries. The special issue explores the practices and beliefs of above- and below-the-line workers who create audiovisual content for streamers and/or online platforms.
Call for Papers Queer Children’s Film and TV: Gender, Sexuality and Childhood in Youth Screen Cultures Edinburgh University Press, Children’s Film and Television Series Rachel Milne and Abigail Jenkins (eds.) We are still looking for a couple of chapter proposals to fill some gaps in our forthcoming edited collection, Queer Children’s Film and TV . The collection explores depictions of queerness in and the queerness
Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network Conference 2024 Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston Campus 30th August We invite postgraduate researchers and practitioners working within media, communication and cultural studies to propose contributions for the 2024 MeCCSA PGN conference.
In the previous blog in this series, I discussed how Succession utilises analogies to Christianity to reinforce and subvert discourses surrounding masculinities and martyrdom; that blog includes a precis of the series.
