CFP Filming Shakespeare (NeMLA) (9/30/11)

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41734

Filming Shakespeare(s) NeMLA 2012
full name / name of organization: Phillip Zapkin / NEMLA
contact email: pzapkin@mix.wvu.edu

This panel seeks papers about modernist and/or postmodernist film versions or adaptations of Shakespearean or Renaissance plays. We will examine how these films negotiate between contemporary cultural/ideological concerns (expressed in the films) and those of Shakespeare’s time (expressed in the plays). Papers about non-Anglophone film adaptations are also welcome, especially if they deal with (post)modern concerns. Please send 200-300 word abstracts to Phillip Zapkin, , by 30 Sept. 2011.

NeMLA 2012 will be hosted by St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY, from 15-18 March. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Rochester.

CFP The Fringes of Adaptation Conference (UK) (12/2/11)

Of potential interest

http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41841

The Fringes of Adaptation
full name / name of organization: De Montfort University
contact email: djc@dmu.ac.uk

The Fringes of Adaptation
Postgraduate Conference
De Montfort University, Leicester
1 March 2012

Papers are invited for a one-day conference at De Montfort University on ‘fringe areas’ of adaptations, elements often overlooked in the study of screen adaptations. We welcome papers on areas such as costume, music, soundtracks, gaming, franchising, merchandising, casting, locations, promotions, authorial interventions, or anything else that has normally been forgotten in mainstream work in adaptation studies.

Proposals should be sent to
Deborah Cartmell
djc@dmu.ac.uk
by December 2, 2011.

SyFy Listings for July

Again, the much belated listings for SyFy this month:

Please note the appearance of Legend Quest, a new show with two Arthurian-themed episodes this month.

WEDNES., 7/6
09:00 AM Destination Truth: Issie/icelandic Elves


THURS., 7/7
10:00 AM Syfy Original Movie: Rock Monster
09:00 PM Movie: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


FRI., 7/8
05:30 PM Movie: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country


SAT., 7/9
06:00 PM Movie: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade


SUN., 7/10
03:00 PM Movie: Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
09:00 PM Movie: National Treasure: Book Of Secrets


MON., 7/11
03:00 PM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons
05:30 PM Movie: National Treasure: Book Of Secrets


WEDNES., 7/13
12:00 PM Ghost Hunters International: Hamlet's Castle: Denmark


SUN., JULY 17
11:30 PM Syfy Original Movie: Sinbad And The Minotaur


MON., JULY 18
01:30 AM Movie: 7 Adventures Of Sinbad, The


TUES., JULY 19
07:00 PM Movie: Underworld: Evolution
09:00 PM Movie: Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans


WEDNES., JULY 20
02:00 PM Syfy Original Movie: Dark Relic
10:00 PM Legend Quest: Excalibur/lost Cintamani Stone


THURS., JULY 21
12:00 AM Legend Quest: Excalibur/lost Cintamani Stone


WEDNES., JULY 27
03:00 AM Syfy Original Movie: Beauty And The Beasts: A Dark Tale



10:00 PM Legend Quest: Holy Lance/incan Golden Sun Disc


THURS., JULY 28
12:00 AM Legend Quest: Holy Lance/incan Golden Sun Disc


FRI., JULY 29
12:00 AM Legend Quest: Excalibur/lost Cintamani Stone
01:00 AM Legend Quest: Holy Lance/incan Golden Sun Disc


SAT., JULY 30
09:30 AM Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest
11:30 AM Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
02:00 PM Syfy Original Movie: Dragon Sword
04:00 PM Movie: Brothers Grimm, The
06:30 PM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons


SUN., JULY 31
03:00 AM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God
05:00 PM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons

July Listings for Chiller

The much belated listings for Chiller this month:

WEDNES., 7/6
11:00A ET
Supernatural Science King Arthur


FRI., 7/8
06:30A ET
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot
06:30P ET
The Twilight Zone The Last Defender Of Camelot


FRI., 7/15
10:00P ET
Chiller Premiere Vlad


SAT., 7/16
02:00A ET
Chiller Premiere Vlad


WEDNES., 7/20
10:00A ET
The Twilight Zone (1985) The Last Defender Of Camelot
08:00P ET
Chiller Premiere Vlad
10:00P ET
Movie Dracula's Curse


THURS., 7/21
12:30A ET
Chiller Premiere Vlad
02:30A ET
Movie Dracula's Curse


SAT., 7/23
03:30P ET
Movie Dracula's Curse
06:00P ET
Movie Vlad


SUN., 7/24
03:30A ET
Movie Dracula's Curse


SUN., 7/31
02:00P ET
Movie Vlad

Lord of the Films

I just posted a bunch of books related to fantasy films (including some discussion of the recent Lord of the Rings trilogy) on the SF, Fantasy, and Legend blog, but this seemed most appropriate here. I have not yet seen the book, but it has been favorably reviewed.

Michael


Lord of the Films: The Unofficial Guide to Tolkiens Middle-Earth on the Big Screen 
By J.W. Braun

details
Published: September 2009
ISBN-10: 1-55022-890-0
ISBN-13: 978-1-55022-890-8
General / trade - 236 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 9 in
Format: Paperback (BC)
$21.95 CAD

First popularized in Tolkien’s classic and bestselling series, The Lord of The Rings has garnered millions of fans around the world. The stunning film trilogy by Peter Jackson was groundbreaking, beautiful, and, as expected, hugely successful. The Lord of the Films is a unique scene-by-scene guide to all of the Lord of the Rings movies, with lots of games, puzzles, and interviews with the filmmakers tossed in.

In this book, each scene in each movie is tackled on four different fronts: a closer look at the plot and the action, a look behind the scenes, a reveal of mistakes that slipped through, and audiences’ reactions. In addition to the famous live-action trilogy, other related films (such as the animated adaptations) are covered as well.

As an added bonus, the author reveals details about the prequel films currently in production and due out in theatres in 2011 and 2012.

After reading this book, fans will feel like they’re watching The Lord of the Rings for the first time all over again!

Wagner and Cinema

Wagner and Cinema 
Edited by Jeongwon Joe and Sander L. Gilman
Foreword by Tony Palmer
Interview with Bill Viola

Publication date: 2/2/2010
Format: paper 504 pages, 28 b&w illus., 35 musical exx.
6 x 9
ISBN: 978-0-253-22163-6
PAPERBACK $29.95

The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In Wagner and Cinema, a diverse group of established and emerging scholars examines Wagner's influence on cinema from the silent era to the present. The essays in this collection engage in a critical dialogue with existing studies—extending and renovating current theories related to the topic—and propose unexplored topics and new methodological perspectives. The contributors discuss films ranging from the 1913 biopic of Wagner to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, with essays on silent cinema, film scoring, Wagner in Hollywood, German cinema, and Wagner beyond the soundtrack.


Foreword by Tony Palmer

Introduction: Why Wagner and Cinema? Tolkien Was Wrong \ Jeongwon Joe

Part 1. Wagner and the Silent Film
1. Wagnerian Motives: Narrative Integration and the Development of Silent Film Accompaniment, 1908—1913 \ James Buhler
2. Underscoring Drama—Picturing Music \ Peter Franklin
3. The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (1913): Becce, Froelich, and Messter \ Paul Fryer
4. Listening for Wagner in Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen \ Adeline Mueller

Part 2. Wagnerian Resonance in Film Scoring
5. The Resonances of Wagnerian Opera and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama in the Film Scores of Max Steiner \ David Neumeyer
6. Wagner's Influence on Gender Roles in Early Hollywood Film \ Eva Rieger
7. The Penumbra of Wagner's Ombra in Two Science Fiction Films from 1951: The Thing from Another World and The Day the Earth Stood Still \ William H. Rosar

Part 3. Wagner in Hollywood
8. "Soll ich lauschen?": Love-Death in Humoresque \ Marcia J. Citron
9. Hollywood's German Fantasy: Ridley Scott's Gladiator \ Marc A. Weiner
10. Reading Wagner in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) \ Neil Lerner
11. Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings \ Scott D. Paulin

Part 4. Wagner in German Cinema
12. Wagner as Leitmotif: The New German Cinema and Beyond \ Roger Hillman
13. The Power of Emotion: Wagner and Film \ Jeremy Tambling
14. Wagner in East Germany: Joachim Herz's Der fliegende Holländer (1964) \ Joy H. Calico

Part 5. Wagner beyond the Soundtrack
15. Nocturnal Wagner: The Cultural Survival of Tristan und Isolde in Hollywood \ Elisabeth Bronfen
16. Ludwig's Wagner and Visconti's Ludwig \ Giorgio Biancorosso
17. The Tristan Project: Time in Wagner and Viola \ Jeongwon Joe
18. "The Threshold of the Visible World": Wagner, Bill Viola, and Tristan \ Lawrence Kramer

Postlude: Looking for Richard: An Archival Search for Wagner \ Warren M. Sherk
Epilogue: Some Thoughts about Wagner and Cinema; Opera and Politics; Style and Reception \ Sander L. Gilman
Interview with Bill Viola \ Jeongwon Joe

Filmography \ Jeongwon Joe, Warren M. Sherk, and Scott D. Paulin
List of Contributors
Index



Jeongwon Joe is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Cincinnati. She is editor of Between Opera and Cinema (with Rose Theresa) and has published articles on Milos Forman’s Amadeus, Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, Gérard Corbiau’s Farinelli, and other works related to opera and film music.

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is author of Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity; Multiculturalism and the Jews; Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery; Freud, Race, and Gender; and Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews.

New on Joan of Arc

The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic 
Pamela Grace

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6026-1
Paperback
192 pages
May 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
US $33.95


From The Gospel According to Matthew to Jesus Christ Superstar, from The Passion of Joan of Arc to The Last Temptation of Christ and Jesus of Montreal, The Religious Film captures the glory, gore, and centrality of this important genre.
A short, accessible introduction to religious film, exploring the genre as spectacle, as musical, and as controversy
Examines the historical, cultural and critical background for religious films from the silent era through to the present day
Introduces the complexities and characteristics of this iconic genre of film, including common sounds and images, and the values that most traditional films of this kind uphold


List of Figures.
Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: The Religious Film and the Hagiopic.

2. Historical Overview.

3. Critical Overview.

4. King of Kings (1961): Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle.

5. The Song of Bernadette (1943): The Religious Comfort Film.

6. Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) and Jesus Christ Superstar (2000): The Religious Musical.

7. The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) and Jesus of Montreal (1989): The Alternative Hagiopic.

8. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999): Transcendence and Exploitation.

9. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Passion of the Christ (2004): The Sacrificial Hagiopic.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.


Pamela Grace teaches at Brooklyn College, CUNY.

Season of the Witch Now Available

The recent film Season of the Witch is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. A detailed synopsis can be accessed at Wikipedia.

New Book on Elizabeth I in Film and Television

Elizabeth I in Film and Television: A Study of the Major Portrayals 

Bethany Latham

Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-3718-4
EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8514-7
11 photos, notes, bibliography, index
298pp. softcover (7 x 10) 2011
Price: $45.00


About the Book
This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience’s perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the Silent era on and in television miniseries.

Actresses who have portrayed Elizabeth include Bette Davis, Glenda Jackson, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Helen Mirren; Quentin Crisp appeared as the Queen in Orlando (1992).

The text focuses on the historical context of the period in which each film or miniseries was made and1the extent of the portrayals of Elizabeth.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
PREFACE 1

1. Why Elizabeth I? A Look at the Life and Times of the Historical Elizabeth 3

2. The Silent Era: Divas and Aristocrats 16
Les Amours de la Reine Élisabeth (1912): Sarah Bernhardt 16
The Virgin Queen (1923): Diana Manners 34

3. Hollywood’s Golden Age: Bette Davis and Big- Budget Historicals 40
Mary of Scotland (1936): Florence Eldridge 41
Fire Over England (1937): Flora Robson 65
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939): Bette Davis 76
The Sea Hawk (1940): Flora Robson 90
Young Bess (1953): Jean Simmons 101
The Virgin Queen (1955): Bette Davis 113

4. Hollywood, A.D.: Elizabethan Career Woman to Pop Culture 130
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971): Glenda Jackson 130
Elizabeth (1998): Cate Blanchett 148
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007): Cate Blanchett 165

5. Glimpses of Elizabeth: The Bit Parts 179
Orlando (1992): Quentin Crisp 179
Shakespeare in Love (1998): Judi Dench 183
Alice in Wonderland (2010): Helena Bonham Carter 186

6. Serialized Elizabeth: The Miniseries 191
Elizabeth R (1971): Glenda Jackson 191
Blackadder II (1986): Miranda Richardson 216
Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (2005): Anne- Marie Duff 220
Elizabeth I (2005): Helen Mirren 239

7. Semper Eadem: The Evolving Elizabeth 267

CHAPTER NOTES 273
BIBLIOGRAPHY 277
INDEX 283

About the Author
Bethany Latham is an associate professor and electronic resources/documents librarian at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. Her articles have appeared in such publications as Reference Reviews and Library Journal. She is managing editor of The Historical Novels Review.

Black Death FF (2010) Now on DVD

The feature film Black Death (2010) is now available on DVD and BluRay.



According to Amazon.com extras include the following:

Deleted Scenes
Bringing Black Death to Life
Interviews with Cast and Crew
Behind the Scenes Footage
HDNet: A Look at Black Death
Theatrical Trailer

Plus Digital Copy

New from the Shrekverse

Coming Soon Anonymous FF

Seems to offer an alternate history of Shakespeare:

Chiller Listings for June

Chiller's medieval-themed listings are fairly light this month (though there are incomplete specifics at present for the airings of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone).

TUES, 14 JUNE

09:00A ET
Supernatural Science: King Arthur


TUES, 28 JUNE

03:30P ET
Monsters: Sleeping Dragon

SyFy June Listings

Relevant listings for SyFy in June. Be sure to check out the marathon on June 24.

WEDNESDAY, 1 JUNE

02:00 AM Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

06:00 PM Ghost Hunters, Season 7: Knights Of The Living Dead


SUN, 5 JUNE

01:30 PM Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale


WEDNES., 8 JUNE

12:00 PM Ghost Hunters International (season 1.5): Dracula's Castle


SAT., 11 JUNE

03:00 AM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God


SUN., 19 JUNE

11:00 PM Movie: In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale


MON., 20 JUNE

01:30 AM Movie: Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God


THURS., 23 JUNE

06:00 PM Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian


FRI., 24 JUNE

08:30 AM Syfy Original Movie: Book Of Beasts, The
10:30 AM Syfy Original Movie: Grendel
12:30 PM Syfy Original Movie: Beyond Sherwood Forest
02:30 PM Movie: Chronicles Of Narnia, The: Prince Caspian

CFP All Your History Are Belong to Us: The Middle Ages, Medievalism, and Digital Gaming (Collection)

All Your History Are Belong to Us: The Middle Ages, Medievalism, and Digital Gaming


CFP: All Your History Are Belong to Us: The Middle Ages, Medievalism, and Digital Gaming

The Middle Ages remains a vibrant presence in contemporary culture, and while cinematic medievalism has been intensively investigated in the last decade, digital gaming has received relatively little attention despite its widespread cultural impact. For example, the video game market now grosses more domestically than Hollywood, and World of Warcraft boasts more than 12 million monthly paying subscribers (25 million total units). Gaming theory too has seen its share of innovation, and digital technologies are now a regular feature of higher education and cultural studies. Medievalism, in its various guises, has also been the subject of intense scrutiny in anthologies by Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer, Medieval Film (2009); Karl Fugelso, Memory and Medievalism (2007); and David Marshall, Mass Market Medieval Essays on the Middle Ages in Popular Culture (2007). Further, the turn toward speculative medievalisms, object-oriented philosophy, and Actor-Network Theory has initiated new methodologies, raised new questions, and offered new possibilities for understanding actor-actant networks and overcoming the subject-object distinction, all of which enrich our understanding of digital and historical realities and problematize traditional understandings of subjectivity, temporality, and textuality.

A few of the more popular medievally-inflected gaming titles (and series) include:

• Age of Empires: Age of Kings
• Diablo
• MediEvil
• Arthur: Quest for Excalibur
• Dragon Age
• Medieval Total War
• Assassin's Creed
• Dungeon Siege
• Morrowind
• Baldur's Gate
• Dynasty Warriors
• Oblivion
• Beowulf
• Elder Scrolls
• Sims Medieval
• Civilization
• Fable
• Shogun Total War
• Dante's Inferno
• Jeanne d'Arc
• Stronghold
• Dark Age of Camelot
• Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader
• Warcraft & World of Warcraft

I am soliciting 500 word proposals for a volume dealing with the Middle Ages, medievalism, and contemporary digital gaming, broadly defined. Some possibilities include:

• Gaming and medieval texts; medieval texts and digital textualities
• Gaming genres (Sword and sorcery/fantasy games, etc.), game types (MMORPG, FPS, RPG, RTS, stealth, survival/horror, etc.), single-player/cooperative/multiplayer games
• Gaming, speculative medievalisms, and counterfactual history
• Gaming, secret societies, arcane religions, and the 'templarization' of history (Dead Space, Mass Effect, and others)
• Gaming, digital sociologies, and electronic epistemologies
• Gaming, object-oriented philosophy, complexity, and Actor-Network Theory
• Gaming, digital communities, and electronic subjectivities
• Gaming, gender, sexuality, class, age; trans-developmental and trans-temporal subjectivities
• Gaming and race and nation; digital orientalism and postcolonialism; space-based societies
• Gaming and cross-platform media (games and/as film tie-ins)
• Gaming and pedagogy
• Gaming, discursive/symbolic violence, and ethics
• Gaming, social simulations, LARPing and LARPers (Live-Action Role Playing & Players)
• Gaming and cheats, glitches, hacks, mods
• Gaming, the academy, medievalism, and generational divides.

Please send your proposals (and any questions) to Dan Kline, University of Alaska, Department of English, 3211 Providence Drive, ADM 101-H, Anchorage, AK 99508 at afdtk@uaa.alaska.edu by May 1, 2011.

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