Professional Notes
2008; University of Texas Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/cj.2008.0004
ISSN1527-2087
AutoresKirsten Moana Thompson, Terri Ginsberg,
ResumoProfessional Notes Edited by Kirsten Moana Thompson Terri Ginsberg Note to contributors: Due to the lengthy production timeline of Cinema Journal, many announcements and calls for paper can not be included because of the time factor. Be sure to check Screensite at http://www.screensite.org/ for all current announcements, conferences and CFP's, and consider submitting your item to them if its deadline is in the next 3 months. Calls for Papers/Articles caboose, a new publisher of books about film, is seeking contributions for its "Kino-Agora" series. These 30,000 word volumes—essays in short-book form—should explore novel or neglected micro-topics in film theory and history, issue manifestoes, or challenge received ideas. The series will kick off with Jacques Aumont's Amnesias: Jean-Luc Godard's Cinematic Fictions. Please contact series editor Christian Keathley at ckeathle@middlebury.edu or publisher Timothy Barnard at caboosebooks@sympatico.ca to submit a proposal or for further information. Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal is published in March, July & November every year. Submissions are encouraged (http://anm.sagepub.com). Dr. Paul Ward. Email: pward@aib.ac.uk or paulgward@aol.com. Call for submissions, Society for Animation Studies Newsletter Seen a good gallery opening? Been to a phenomenal film festival? Wrote a book lately? The SAS Newsletter needs YOUR news! Victoria Meng and Amy Ratelle—as editor and assistant editor—cordially invite you to submit writings and images you would like to share with other SAS and SCMS members. We are open to articles of any length and description, and image submissions in jpg and gif formats. We also welcome contributions from those outside of SAS—if you teach a course on animation and come across good student writing, please encourage them to submit. Inquiries: framefolly@yahoo.com. Conferences The Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference, Birbeck, University of London, 4–6 September, 2008. This major three-day international conference aims to re-evaluate Katherine Mansfield's contribution to 20th century literature, as well as to assess the state of Mansfield scholarship and criticism today. We seek proposals for papers from [End Page 171] national and international academics, postgraduates and independent scholars. Suggested topics for discussion of interest to SCMS members may include screen depictions and the film Leave All Fair, and Mansfield television adaptations/documentaries. Paper titles, 250–300 word abstracts (for 20-minute papers), and 150 word bio-sketches should be sent to BOTH conference organizers by 1 February 2008: Dr Gerri Kimber at gerri@thekimbers.co.uk and Professor Janet Wilson at janet.wilson@northampton.ac.uk. Further details relating to the conference will appear within the coming months on the Centre for New Zealand Studies' new website: http://www.nzsa.co.uk/centrefornzstudies.htm. New Books Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R. Pedro Almodóvar. BFI World Directors. London: BFI, 2007. Baumann, Shyon. Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. Bergfelder, Tim. Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007. Dist. by University of Chicago Press. Boon, Timothy. Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary Films and Television. London: Wallflower, 2007. Bould, Mark. The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star. Director's cut series. London: Wallflower, 2007. Bourne, Stephen Bourne. Butterfly McQueen Remembered. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2007. Brink, Joram Ten. Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch. London: Wallflower, 2007. Browning, Mark. David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2007. Dist. by Univ. of Chicago Press. Chopra-Gant, Michael. Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories. London: Wallflower, 2008. Creeber, Glen. The Singing Detective. BFI TVClassics. London: BFI, 2007. Day, James, ed. Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film. French Literature series. Rodopi: Amsterdam/New York, 2007. Deger, Jennifer. Shimmering Screens: Making Media in an Aboriginal Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Flinn, Caryl. Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. Los Angeles: University of California, 2007. Fuller–Seeley, Kathryn, ed. Hollywood in the Neighborhood: Historical Case Studies of...
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