Final Call for papers Celebrity Culture Su Holmes and Sean Redmond Celebrity Culturewill represent a significant intervention in the field on a number of different levels. Essentially, what we are proposing here is a book which brings together approaches to stardom and celebrity which range across historical periods, media forms and national contexts - as well as disciplinary borders and modes of enquiry (film, television, music, sport, Internet, print media). The book aims to bring together a broad range of essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today?s fame culture. Proposals can be historical or contemporary and may explore (but are not limited to) the following areas: · Discussions of star/ celebrity theory (critique/ revisitation/ development) · Analyses of historical shifts in fame · The impact of ?new? media technologies on celebrity construction / consumption (digital technologies, internet, cyberspace) · Celebrity journalism/ magazines · Celebrity and Reality TV · Celebrity fandom/ fan cultures / subcultures · Celebrity and issues of gender/ sexuality/ ethnicity/ class / national identity · Celebrity ?branding? / promotion · Celebrity and politics/ politicians Addressed to [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], proposals should be approximately 300-400 words, and include a brief biographical note and contact details. Deadline October1st 2004. Su Holmes is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Kent, UK. She is the co-editor of Understanding Reality TV (Routledge, 2004) and author of British Television and Film Culture in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You! (Intellect, 2005). Sean Redmond is Principal Lecturer at Southampton Institute, UK. He is the co-editor of The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor (Wallflower, 2003), editor of Liquid Metal: the Science Fiction Film Reader (Wallflower, 2004), and author of Studying Chunking Express (Auteur Press, 2004). ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu