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Dear colleagues, We are delighted to say that the Action Cinema Now conference is now open for registrations. The conference runs from Thursday 11 April to Saturday 13 April 2019 inclusive. The conference website is now live, and includes more information on our keynotes and panels, and a draft conference schedule: https://actioncinemanow.wordpress.com/ <https://actioncinemanow.wordpress.com/> Early bird registration closes on 1 March 2019. You can register at the following link: https://www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science/film-theatre-television/action-cinema-now If you want to attend the conference dinner you need to purchase your place as part of the online registration process. You also need to confirm your menu choices by clicking on this link: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xDv6T_zswEiQgPXkP_kOX-iKQI0y3fdGnLJ5IkTyfodUMVY1NjVWNDdEVVRDREFRM0xXUExLUEtCTS4u. Further details about the conference's focus are provided below: At a moment when the relationship between popular culture, politics and society is again being sharply debated, action cinema as a dominant form of mass cultural production demands to be re-examined, as does the critical writing that has documented that form. Action films pose pressing questions about the extent to which a popular form can develop appropriate responses to the ethical dimensions of representation and marginalisation, particularly in a wider context of global multi-platform circulation. At the same time, they remain key sites of technological and aesthetic innovation and market negotiation shaped by complex local and global economic and cultural drivers. This conference brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in a cross-continental, intercultural, intermedial and interdisciplinary examination of this wide-ranging form. We seek to analyse action cinema in its heterogeneity, and in particular to skew away from traditional foci of action scholarship, such as the white cis-gendered male hero. In doing so, the conference will address questions of regional exchange, aesthetics, performance, and industry. We are delighted to welcome an impressive array of established and emerging scholars from the U.S, Canada, Europe, and India as speakers, as well as keynotes from Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Professor Mary Beltrán (University of Texas), Professor Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), and Professor Yvonne Tasker, University of Leeds). Feel free to share the conference website amongst those colleagues and students who might be interested in joining us at this fantastic event. Best wishes, Lisa ________________________________ Dr Lisa Purse Associate Professor in Film | Head of Department Department of Film, Theatre & Television, Room 202, Minghella Studios, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6BT, UK Tel +44 (0)118 378 4074 Fax +44 (0)118 378 4089 Email [log in to unmask] Web www.reading.ac.uk/ftt Author of Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema (EUP 2013, http://amzn.to/TKH2ws) and Contemporary Action Cinema (EUP 2011, http://amzn.to/JOOsIY) -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------