Hi, everyone. A colleague at Michigan State University, Johnson Cheu,
has asked me to distribute the following two CFPs for your
consideration. If you have any questions about them, please contact
Johnson directly at [log in to unmask] Thanks so much.
--Marty Norden
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Martin F. Norden
Communication Dept., 409 Machmer Hall norden(at)comm.umass.edu
University of Massachusetts-Amherst fax: 413 545-6399
Amherst, MA 01003 USA vox: 413 545-0598
Home page: http://people.umass.edu/norden
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CFP: "Tim Burton: Works, Characters, Themes"
Mark Salisbury writes of Tim Burton:
"Burton's characters are often outsiders, misunderstood and
misperceived, misfits encumbered by some degree of duality, operating
on the fringes of their own particular society, tolerated, but pretty
much left to their own devices." (Burton on Burton, xviii-xix)
Burton's films have explored this theme of outsiders and many others
over a wide array of genres.
Scholarly essays are sought for a potential collection on the work and
artistry of Tim Burton. All films and theoretical approaches welcome.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
* Outsiders, misfits, and conformity/nonconformity
* Cyborgs, "Grotesquerie/Freakery" and other bodily non-conformities
* Heroes/Villains
* Early work (Disney, "Frankenweenie," Pee-Wee's Big Adventure)
* Burton as Auteur
* Johnny Depp and "Celebrity/Star" theory
* Adaptations (Dark Shadows, Sleepy Hollow, Alice, Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes, James and the Giant Peach,
Sweeney Todd, etc.)
* Ed Wood
* Sci-fi (e.g. Mars Attacks)
* Batman, Batman Returns!
* Burton and fairy tales; Burton as fairy tale
* Burton and "Beauty" (films, bodies, and otherwise)
* Death, Ghosts, Haunting
* Humor, Horror, Satire, Allegory
* Family, Fathers, etc. (Big Fish, etc.)
* Mixed-genre (comedy-horror, Beetle Juice, or musical-comedy-horror,
Sweeney Todd, etc.)
* Suburbia/"The City"
* Love, attraction, rejection, sexuality
* TV work: (Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Jar," ; Cartoon-TV's "Family Dog")
Please note: A potential publisher has expressed possible interest;
work on this project may be relatively swift.
By 1 October, 2012, please submit a 250 word abstract and one-page CV
to Johnson Cheu ([log in to unmask])
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CFP: "Horror (as/is) Humor, Humor (as/is) Horror: sLaughter in Popular Cinema"
In his review of Tavernier's Coup de torchon, David Kehr wrote in When
Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade,
"Death, violence, and moral corruption aren't just slapstick props ...
but agonizingly real presences, and their comedy isn't a release from
horror, but a confrontation with it... [H]umor and horror exist side
by side, they play on the very thin line that separates a laugh from
a scream, touching the hysteria common to both... The best black humor
makes us feel the horror." (186)
Scholarly collections in Humor and Horror Studies have largely
conceived of them as separate genres and fields. Yet popular culture
has increasingly seen a rise in the emotional and visceral confluence
of humor and horror--from black comedies, dark fantasy and a renewed
interest in fairy tale adaptations, to fresh literary works, graphic
novels, and politics and satire.
Scholarly essays are sought for a potential collection on the nexus of
humor and horror--sLaughter--in popular culture texts with a primary
focus on film. Topics may include, but are clearly not limited to:
Genre (e.g., parody, science / speculative fiction, thriller, dark
fantasy, cyberpunk / splatterpunk, "classical" comedy / drama,
post-humanism, terror/ism, apocalyptica and TEOTWAWKI); Creator /
Auteur (e.g., Joss Whedon, Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Mary Harron,
Matt Groening, Seth McFarlane, the Soska sisters, the Coen brothers,
Bret Easton Ellis, Charles Bukowski, Amy Lynn Best, David Cronenberg,
Tim Burton, John Carpenter); or Theory / Theorist (e.g.,
structuralism, grotesquerie / freakery, transgressionism,
attraction=repulsion, bodily mutilation / ablation, postmodernism,
biomechanics / cyborg interfaces).
We are NOT interested in Abbott and Costello, "camp," or anything else
offering the audience a chance to be "psychologically distanced" from
mortal terror--beyond the fact that they are viewing images on a
screen. Though we are interested in zombies, lycanthropy, vampirism,
and that lot, we envision a much broader and more scholarly collection
than the fanzone tends to produce--much scarier than Twilight,
etc.--that addresses the intersection of humor/horror. We want you to
make us FEEL it, and tell us why it's important.
By 15 September 2012, please submit a 250 word abstract and one-page
CV to both Johnson Cheu ([log in to unmask]) and John A Dowell
([log in to unmask]).
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