Authors Wanted: Disney Films on Sport, British History
Authors are sought for two essays (2,500 words each) dealing with based-on-fact films released by Walt Disney Studios. The essays will complete an edited collection tentatively titled:
Beyond the Mouse: Disney's Documentaries and Docudramas. A publisher has expressed
interest in the project. The book is intended to appeal to a broad audience: historians, film scholars, and non-academic Disney fans. The essays should be interpretive (rather than simply
cataloging and describing the films), but written in an accessible, engaging style
without heavy jargon or theoretical apparatus.
Essay #1 will deal with Disney's based-on-a-true-story sports dramas of the 1990s and 2000s, including Miracle (about the 1980 US Olympic hockey team), The Rookie, Remember the Titans, Glory Road, and Invincible.
Essay #2 will deal with Disney's European-history adventures of the 1950s and 1960s: The Story of Robin Hood, The Sword and the Rose, Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue, and The Fighting Prince of Donegal.
Deadline for delivery of the manuscripts is negotiable, but will need to be in early 2008.
Inquiries from scholars in any relevant discipline (history, literature, American studies, film studies, etc.) and at any stage of their career are welcome. If interested, please email a brief
statement of interest (which essay?) and qualifications to:
Dr. A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Department of Social and International Studies
Southern Polytechnic State University
bvanripe@spsu.edu or
bvanriper@bellsouth.net
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPORT LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPORT LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
June 26-29, 2008
Johnson City , TN
Deadline: March 14, 2008
The 25th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held June 26-29, 2008, at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City , Tennessee. The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete sessions. All submissions should relate to the literature of sport in some way.
Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should follow general guidelines set forth in the association's publication, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, which "celebrate[s] the intersection of literature with the world of play, games and sport." Submissions "should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media). We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome." We also encourage sessions focused on presenters' original creations, including fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.
Those interested in presenting should send abstracts of individual papers or original work or proposals for complete sessions by March 14, 2008 to:
Dr. Shelly Sanders
Department of English
Abilene Christian University
ACU BOX 28252
Abilene , TX 79601
Email: Shelly.Sanders@acu.edu
Phone: 325.674.4855
Fax: 325.674.2408
Submissions should include presenter's name, phone number, postal and email address, paper title, and a 250-word abstract (abstracts are mandatory since they will be printed in post conference proceedings). Indicate the type of presentation as research, fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry. Proposals should also include suggestions for possible panel members.
June 26-29, 2008
Johnson City , TN
Deadline: March 14, 2008
The 25th Annual Conference of the Sport Literature Association will be held June 26-29, 2008, at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City , Tennessee. The Program Committee of the Sport Literature Association invites proposals for individual papers and complete sessions. All submissions should relate to the literature of sport in some way.
Scholarly and critical submissions for the conference should follow general guidelines set forth in the association's publication, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, which "celebrate[s] the intersection of literature with the world of play, games and sport." Submissions "should address treatments of sport in texts or textual media (print, film, performance, digital or other media). We invite essays on sport literature (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, or film) or on the rhetoric of sport. Cultural-studies approaches to sport texts are welcome." We also encourage sessions focused on presenters' original creations, including fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry.
Those interested in presenting should send abstracts of individual papers or original work or proposals for complete sessions by March 14, 2008 to:
Dr. Shelly Sanders
Department of English
Abilene Christian University
ACU BOX 28252
Abilene , TX 79601
Email: Shelly.Sanders@acu.edu
Phone: 325.674.4855
Fax: 325.674.2408
Submissions should include presenter's name, phone number, postal and email address, paper title, and a 250-word abstract (abstracts are mandatory since they will be printed in post conference proceedings). Indicate the type of presentation as research, fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry. Proposals should also include suggestions for possible panel members.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Call for Papers Baseball and Politics
Call for Papers Baseball and Politics
Editor Ron Briley is seeking manuscripts for an anthology on Baseball and Politics to be published by McFarland & Company. The recent front page newspaper coverage of the Barry Bonds indictment for perjury indicates that the interest in and impact of baseball extends well beyond the playing field. This collection will focus upon the intersection between baseball and the political arena—nationally as well as locally. A diverse range of political opinion will be encouraged in the volume. Possible topics for investigation include:
1. Racial integration and discrimination in the sport
2. The politics of stadium construction and financing
3. Baseball and the women’s question
4. Gays in baseball
5. Baseball and religion
6. Baseball and imperialism
7. Baseball and war (Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War)
8. Political opinions and activities of baseball players and management
9. Youth baseball
10. Baseball and anti-trust legislation
11. The merchandising of baseball both nationally and internationally
12. Baseball academies in Latin America
13. The response of baseball to national emergencies such as 9/11 or the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
14. Baseball and the World Classic
Inquiries should be addressed to Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico) at rbriley@sandiaprep.org Manuscripts should be approximately 15 to 20 pages double-spaced. Documentation should be in Chicago style (although exceptions may be made for academic disciplines for which MLA is the accepted mode of citation). Manuscripts should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word format to Ron Briley by July 1, 2008.
Ron Briley
Assistant Headmaster
532 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque,NM 87113
505-338-3019
505-338-3099 (fax)
Email: rbriley@sandiaprep.org
Editor Ron Briley is seeking manuscripts for an anthology on Baseball and Politics to be published by McFarland & Company. The recent front page newspaper coverage of the Barry Bonds indictment for perjury indicates that the interest in and impact of baseball extends well beyond the playing field. This collection will focus upon the intersection between baseball and the political arena—nationally as well as locally. A diverse range of political opinion will be encouraged in the volume. Possible topics for investigation include:
1. Racial integration and discrimination in the sport
2. The politics of stadium construction and financing
3. Baseball and the women’s question
4. Gays in baseball
5. Baseball and religion
6. Baseball and imperialism
7. Baseball and war (Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Iraq War)
8. Political opinions and activities of baseball players and management
9. Youth baseball
10. Baseball and anti-trust legislation
11. The merchandising of baseball both nationally and internationally
12. Baseball academies in Latin America
13. The response of baseball to national emergencies such as 9/11 or the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
14. Baseball and the World Classic
Inquiries should be addressed to Ron Briley (Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico) at rbriley@sandiaprep.org Manuscripts should be approximately 15 to 20 pages double-spaced. Documentation should be in Chicago style (although exceptions may be made for academic disciplines for which MLA is the accepted mode of citation). Manuscripts should be sent electronically in Microsoft Word format to Ron Briley by July 1, 2008.
Ron Briley
Assistant Headmaster
532 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque,NM 87113
505-338-3019
505-338-3099 (fax)
Email: rbriley@sandiaprep.org
Sunday, February 25, 2007
CFP: From Babbitt to Rabbit: Sports in American Literature (Midwest Modern Language Association)
CFP: From Babbitt to Rabbit: Sports in American Literature (Midwest Modern Language Association)
Midwest MLA – Cleveland, OH – November 8-11, 2007
In an America saturated with professional and amateur sporting events, the utilization of sports as a cultural metaphor in literature has a long history. Mark Twain, for instance, once declared that “baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming nineteenth century.” This panel is interested in these types of intersections: from football in Fitzgerald to wrestling in John Irving, from golf as a refuge for misogynistic business practices to baseball as a key cultural symbol of coming integration in the 1940s. How have sports been employed as a valuable tool in American literature? 300 word abstracts to Joe Webb, Saint Louis University, by March 15, 2007 (jwebb16@slu.edu).
For the complete call for papers visit: www.uiowa.edu/~mmla
Midwest MLA – Cleveland, OH – November 8-11, 2007
In an America saturated with professional and amateur sporting events, the utilization of sports as a cultural metaphor in literature has a long history. Mark Twain, for instance, once declared that “baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming nineteenth century.” This panel is interested in these types of intersections: from football in Fitzgerald to wrestling in John Irving, from golf as a refuge for misogynistic business practices to baseball as a key cultural symbol of coming integration in the 1940s. How have sports been employed as a valuable tool in American literature? 300 word abstracts to Joe Webb, Saint Louis University, by March 15, 2007 (jwebb16@slu.edu).
For the complete call for papers visit: www.uiowa.edu/~mmla
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