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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commmons in the discussion
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Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation as screen writers and students of film in the Rust Belt Literature group. NOTE: We are looking for hosts for a Rust Belt Literature panel at the next national MLA convention.
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Alexa Huang deposited Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoFor close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun’s search for a Chinese “Shakespeare,” and from Feng Xiaogang’s martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater,…[Read more]
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Brandon Taylor deposited The Ideological Train to Globalization: Bong Joon-ho's The Host and Snowpiercer in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis paper analyzes Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer and how it relates to a new paradigm of trans-national blockbusters. I analyze the film using a cultural materialist lens with respect to the filmmaker’s previous films and their outward (international) trajectory. This methodology highlights a larger trend that we are now seeing with large-scale…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited El dantisme de Manuel de Montoliu in the group
LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoIn the year 1903 Manuel de Montoliu published the first Catalan version, in prose and poetry, of “La Vida Nova”, which meant an important stage within the history of pre-Raphaelitism and modernism in Catalonia. In this article the first Dantesque influences in the poetic production of the translator will be detected, the stage of preparation and…[Read more]
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Natalie Berkman deposited Princeton Center for Digital Humanities Design Review Document in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoA document detailing the scope, projected outcomes, and design of my coding project with the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. The project was successfully defended and reviewed in December 2015.
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Natalie Berkman deposited Digital Humanities Design Review Evaluation in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe Princeton Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) director, Meredith Martin, sent this letter to my advisor and the other professors on my dissertation committee to alert them of the successful status of my design review document. This document certifies that my project has been peer reviewed by the CDH committee and is on track towards timely completion.
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Kendra Leonard deposited Shakespeare, Madness, and Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoShakespeare’s three political tragedies―Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear―have numerously been presented or adapted on film. These three plays all involve the recurring trope of madness, which, as constructed by Shakespeare, provided a wider canvas on which to detail those materials that could not be otherwise expressed: sexual desire and exp…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited The blurring of boundaries: images of abjection as the terrorist and the reel Arab intersect in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agon her treatise on abjection, Julia Kristeva argues that the abject is located outside the self, remaining in a state of repulsion that threatens to destroy the self. Abject representations are prevalent in the way terrorists have been portrayed in the Western news media post-September 11, 2001. These images of abjection are problematic, as they…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Italian Diaspora Culture Program in Calabria 2016 in the discussion
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Italian American Studies Association Conference Proposals (DEADLINE EXTENDED) in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<b class=””>Italian American Studies Association Conference Proposals
Conference Theme: “Recorded, Reported, Projected, and Pixilated: Italian Americans in Mass Media”
Date: November 3rd to November 5th, 2016
Location: California State University—Long Beach, Long Beach / Los Angeles, California
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Nancy Caronia started the topic Reminder: CFPs MLA 2016 Italian American LLC in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agohttps://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=6828
The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that exp…[Read more] -
Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Guaranteed Session: DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People The Italian American Literature Forum is seeking panelists to present transmedia perspectives and projects (oral histories, photos, artifacts, home movies etc.) on the Italian American experience for its guaranteed session at the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia. As defined by Henry Jenkins,…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Possible Session: The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of racism and ethnocentrism in the Rocky series. We are most int…[Read more]
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI @ MLA: Call for Papers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIl poeta civile: ieri, oggi e domani
Call for Papers: AATI @ MLA (Philadelphia, PA)
January 5-8, 2017
For Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death marked the loss of a great poeta civile whose work uniquely bore a Leftist political stamp.
“La poesia civile era sempre stata a destra in Italia, dall’inizio dell’Ottocento, da Foscolo…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic Two CFPs: Italian American Lit Forum MLA 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoSee below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
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Nancy Caronia started the topic Two CFPs from IA Lit Forum for MLA 2017 in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoPlease see below for two CFPs from the Italian American Literature Forum for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia:
DigITALamericana: New Archives of an Invisible People
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016!!! in the discussion
Italian American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016! in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: AATI @ Naples June 2016 in the discussion
Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoNOTIFICATION OF EXTENDED DEADLINES
Session/Roundtable proposals with calls for abstracts: February 20, 2016.
Individual paper proposals: February 20, 2016.
<u>Completed Sessions and Roundtables</u> with all relevant information, as per guidelines (attached): March 1, 2016.
FOR QUERIES PLEASE CONTACT AATI NAPLES COMMITTEE CHAIR, CO…[Read more]
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