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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Demythologizing the Palestinian in Hany Abu-Assad’sOmarandParadise Now in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoIn the past, Palestinian cinema was dominated by a nationalist discourse revolving around refugee ideology, resulting from the trauma of the lost homeland. As the past is generally static, revisiting it became an exercise in nostalgia. The last decade, however, has seen the emergence of a number of transnational Palestinian films telling stories…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Why Robots Go Astray in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years agoFantastic tales of rebellious robots and animated artifacts are a permanent fixture in popular culture and have been since antiquity. What kind of behavior do we expect from conceptual hybrids in science fiction, nonsense poetry, and surrealist art?
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the Popular Culture Discussion Group — You may be interested in applying:
Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election–Please Send Suggestions in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTC Popular Culture’s next scheduled election of a Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for This Forum's Fall 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoMS Screen Arts and Culture will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in an election that is scheduled for the fall of 2017. The forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making n…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic REMINDER: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (12/1/16) in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoA quick reminder:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of critical essays on the comics of Alison Bechdel, offering new exami…[Read more]
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Debra Ann Castillo deposited The bad boy antihero and contemporary politics: Scarface and Gunday in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn this short piece I look at media creations of the contemporary political landscape by way of popular history as accessed through films. I suggest that one of the ways figures like Donald Trump or Narendra Modi access a certain violent masculinity is through a shared understanding of this repertoire of images.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited The Future History of the Book: Time, Attention, Convention in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAnxieties abound regarding the ostensible obsolescence of the book. Exploring whether the book is in fact becoming obsolete — and what it might mean if it were — requires thinking distinctly about the specific material form of the book (the codex) and about the content that it has long carried. If the form were to change — becoming digital, for i…[Read more]
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an ever-growing…[Read more]
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Margaret C. Flinn started the topic New M.A. Program in Film Studies in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe Ohio State University Master of Arts in Film Studies
The Ohio State University announces a new Master of Arts degree in Film Studies. Film Studies at Ohio State (https://film-studies.osu.edu) is a multicultural, international, and interdisciplinary program, which approaches cinema as both art and as international social practice. The M.A.…[Read more]
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Donna Kornhaber started the topic CFP: The Films of Wes Anderson in the discussion
Film on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe Films of Wes Anderson
A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)
Wes Anderson is among the most recognized and recognizable writer-directors working today: the recipient of six Academy Award nominations, the subject of countless magazine profiles, the topic of several recent books, and the object of an…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Anastasia Salter deposited "Once more a kingly quest": Fan games and the classic adventure genre in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe classic adventure games—part of the earliest traditions of interactive narrative—have not disappeared, although they no longer occupy space on the shelves at the local computer store. Even as changing hardware and operating systems render these games of the 1980s and 1990s literally unplayable without emulating the computer systems of the pas…[Read more]
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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.
This group will host…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic RUST BELT LITERATURE on the Commons in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoRust Belt Literature
Public Group active 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
<div id=”item-meta”>We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.
NOTE to those who attend: We are calling for people to host a panel at the next national MLA convention.
This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust…[Read more]
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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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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Digital Cultures & Narrative in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoUndergraduate syllabus for a course combining media studies with creative production practices in digital narratives and culture. Designed for delivery online, with an emphasis on individual projects.
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