BSA Media Study Group Seminar
Gender, Crime and Media
Birmingham City University, Curzon Building, 8th June 2016
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Gender, Crime and Media
CFP
Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine in Contemporary Women’s Writing
CFP for a Special Issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing on Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.
Edited by Ruth Heholt, Fiona Peters and Gina Wisker.
Call for Contributions : Bonnie & Clyde
Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie & Clyde (1968)
The editor of a new Critical Insights FILM volume on Arthur Penn’s 1967 film, Bonnie and Clyde, seeks contributors to write chapters on any topic on the film. Continue reading
American, British and Canadian Studies Special Issue: Contemporary Crime Fiction
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE: CONTEMPORARY CRIME FICTION
(Information provided by Dr Charlotte Beyer)
American, British and Canadian Studies, the Journal of the Academic Anglophone Society of Romania, invites submissions for a special 2017 issue on Contemporary Crime Fiction, guest edited by Dr Charlotte Beyer. Continue reading
Call for Contributions: Crime Fiction and Food
CFP sent by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda, and Barbara Pezzotti
Following our recent projects The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2012; see information available at www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=167802&SubjectId=997&Subject2Id=927) and Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More (forthcoming 2015, Palgrave McMillan; see http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/serial-crime-fiction-jean-anderson/?K=9781137483683), we invite interested scholars and specialists to contribute to a planned volume on crime fiction and food. We envisage including studies of print, television, and film series and are keen to consider a wide range of authors, countries and time periods. The category ‘crime fiction’ is here understood in the broad sense i.e. detective, spy, mystery and thriller.
CFP:Postcolonial and Transnational Crime Fiction
Call for Papers
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (published by Routledge from 2016)
Special Issue – Postcolonial and Transnational Crime Fiction
Since the nineteenth century crime fiction has provided a space for authors to comment on colonial relations, the iniquities of colonialism, and the aberrations of colonial systems of law enforcement and justice. The complex legacy of colonialism in contemporary times continues to be explored in transnational crime fiction. This special issue aims to showcase the latest scholarship on postcolonial and transnational crime fiction in which the following questions are raised and answered:
- How has the genre of crime fiction, and its many sub-genres, been adapted, transformed, re-imagined and subverted by postcolonial and transnational crime fiction texts?
- How does postcolonial and transnational crime fiction investigate colonial and neo-colonial power dynamics, structures of authority, notions of justice and law enforcement?
- What specific cultural and socio-political contexts are examined in…
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