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Helene Meyers deposited "Woman in Gold" in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoFilm review of Woman in Gold (2015) as a cinematic rendering of the material turn in Holocaust memory.
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoOur LLC East Asian Business Meeting is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2016 from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott. (see below)
Please forward this info to your panelists and anyone else I might have missed from the list of officers.
Thanks and see you soon.Monika Dix
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Brandon Taylor deposited The Pleasure of Walter White’s Grotesque Odyssey: Complex Narrative Escalation in AMC’s Breaking Bad (2008-2013) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article maps the emergence and prevalence of the white heterosexual male psychopath in modern American commercial television through an analysis of the final three episodes of Breaking Bad (2009-2013).
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic New Japanese Forum created!! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:
“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.
The first official sessions…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Lisa Zunshine articles now downloading correctly from CORE in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello!
Several of you wrote to tell us that the files containing Lisa Zunshine’s articles in CORE, the MLA repository, were not downloading correctly. Thank you for letting us know! We have now fixed the files, and you can download “Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies” at http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6401R and “The Secret Life of Fic…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies" in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis is a short introductory essay for _The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies_, published in 2015. The areas covered by _The Handbook_ include cognitive historicism, cognitive narratology, cognitive queer theory, neuroaesthetics, cognitive postcolonial studies, studies in emotions and empathy, decision theory, cognitive disability…[Read more]
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Nicole Seymour deposited Alligator Earrings and the Fish Hook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work in affect theory, animal studies, and environmental studies, Nicole Seymour arg…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Elizabeth Swanstrom started the topic CFP "Small Screen Fictions" in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoParadoxa, Issue in Preparation
Volume 29, “Small Screen Fictions”
Anticipated publication date: December, 2017Editors:
Astrid Ensslin (Bangor University, Bangor, Wales)
Paweł Frelik (Maria Curie-Sklodowska, Lublin, Poland)
Lisa Swanstrom (Florida-Atlantic, Boca Raton, Florida, USA)In the last few decades, digital technologies have dram…[Read more]
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Stacy Hartman deposited The Ethics of Emotion: The Dialectic of Empathy and Estrangement in Postwar German Literature and Film in the group
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAlthough the question of the role of empathy in our experience of fiction is currently an active one in psychology, most of the relevant research has been conducted on popular literature and film. This dissertation seeks to change that by using cognitive approaches to literature to examine how and why postmodern texts disrupt the reader or…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic CFP-Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Special Issue on Early Film in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoEarly 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]
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Nicky Agate started the topic CFP and Survey: Korean Texts and Translations in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoTeach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons-staging.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations
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Verena Kick started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: Grasping at Screens in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP for 2016 MLA in Austin, TX
Grasping at Screens
This panel asks whether the multiplication of screens and the constant traversal of different media demand new ways of thinking about embodied engagement with the moving image. As our bodies move, our various screens may move with us. We may be engaged intensely with a given flow of images, o…[Read more]
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Paul Rouzer started the topic MLA 2016 Panel call for papers in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 11 years agoScripture as Literature: Reading East Asian Religion
Close readings of East Asian religious texts (Buddhist, Daoist, etc.), premodern or modern (poetry, fiction, film, etc.). Interested especially in interpretations that cross disciplinary boundaries in literary and religious studies or cross national boundaries. 300 word abstracts by 1 March…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 11 years agoTEXAS 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 – Texas A&M University
Indigenous studies Working Group -…[Read more]
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