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As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the cancellation of this year’s IASPR conference, here are details of the

• Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference (October 11-13, 2013)
• Pleasure, Pain & Perversion: Embodied Violence & Eroticism in Cultural Representations (April 12-13, 2013), Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• Third Annual Gender and Sexuality Postgraduate Research Conference, Birmingham, UK (May 10, 2013)

Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel
(Conference info: http://www.mpcaaca.org)

Deadline for submission: April 30, 2013.

The most prevalent narrative structure of popular romance is an integral element of any story, regardless of forum: film, television, fiction, manga, advertising. Not only is romance exceptionally popular, it is so pervasive as to become ordinary and overlooked. As the popularity of romance increases, so too does the need for serious scholarship of the genre in all its incarnations. We are interested in any and all topics about or related to popular romance and its representations in popular culture (fiction, stage, screen—large or small, commercial, advertising, music, song, dance, online, real life, etc.)

Proposals may be for individual papers or 3-person panels.

Topics can include, but are not limited to:
•       critical approaches, such as readings informed by critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial studies, or empirical science
•       depictions in the media and popular culture (e.g., film, television, literature, comics)
•       literature and fiction (genre romance, poetry, animé)
•       types of relationships (marriage, gay and lesbian)
•       historical practices and traditions of and in romance
•       regional and geographic pressures and influences (southern, Caribbean)
•       material culture (valentines, foods, fashions)
•       folklore and mythologies
•       jokes and humor
•       romantic love in political discourse (capitalism)
•       psychological approaches toward romantic attraction
•       emotional and sexual desire
•       subcultures: age (seniors, adolescents), multi-ethnic, inter-racial
•       individual creative producers or texts of popular romance
•       gender-bending and gender-crossing

Submit a one-page (200-250 words) proposal or abstract by 30 April 2013 to the Popular Romance area on the MPCA/ACA website http://submissions.mpcaaca.org. Please include name, affiliation, and e-mail address with your abstract. Also, please indicate in your submission whether your presentation will require a TV and DVD player. Note that LCD projectors will not be provided by MPCA/ACA.
More conference information can be found at http://www.mpcaaca.org/.
For further inquiries or concerns, please contact Romance Area Chair, Maryan Wherry, Western Illinois University Quad-Cities, m-wherry@wiu.edu.

Key note lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Liz Constable, UC Davis

The body serves as an important point of intersection, a site where ideology, material cultural practice, and narrative come together to form an understanding of the self. “Embodied Violence & Eroticism” asks us to explore this site in the various ways the body acts and is acted upon, demanding that we go beyond mere linear abstractions of ideology and look at how these ideologies converge upon the individual. Power relations use eroticism and violence as discourse to highlight the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, public and private spheres, colonizer and colonized, the body’s function and representation, and other binary relations. The complexity of erotic discourses lies in the manifold ways in which they encapsulate and transport desires, thereby blurring the boundaries between the acknowledgement of the self and the acknowledgement of the self’s desire.
Possible session topics include but are not limited to:

• Pornography, Power, and the Performance of the Erotic
• Performance and the Embodiment of Culture
• Biopolitics and Sexuality
• The Psychosomatic
• The (Trans)gendered Body
• Violation and Forgiveness: Living Through Trauma
• Post-colonialism, the Racialized Body, and Psychic Colonization
• Wars and Embodied Borders
• Sartorial Rhetoric and Semiotics
• The Cinematic/Virtual Body
• Taboo: Sex, Identity, Nudity and Erotic Subjectivity
• Psychoanalysis and Perversions
• Semiotics of Desire
• Erotic Justice
• The Erotic in Feminism/The Erotic in Feminine vis-à-vis Masculine Discourse
• Morality, Lust, and the Semiotics of Desire
• Fetishism and Popular Culture

Conference Structure: This conference/workshop will be comprised of the keynote address and panels on Friday, followed by additional panels on Saturday. Central to the conference is a graduate seminar style workshop on Saturday. This workshop is led by the keynote speaker and designed to explore the issues presented and discussed in more detail and depth. Presenters are requested to arrange their travel so that they can participate in the entire event, including the workshop. There will also be a closing reception Saturday evening, which is open to all participants and audience members.

Please send a 500 word abstract along with a brief biographical statement, in a separate document, to csconference.unm@gmail.com by Thursday, February 14. Selected participants will be notified by Monday, February 25. You can also visit our webpage (coming soon) for additional information about the conference: http://www.unm.edu/~fll/grad-conference.htm (check for updates).

In the meantime, the cfp can be seen here.

Key Note Speaker: Dr. Nadine Muller

This one-day interdisciplinary conference offers postgraduates the opportunity to present their research in a friendly and supportive environment. We invite applications for twenty-minute papers from researchers working within the fields of gender and sexuality studies. Suggestions for presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- social policy, government legislation, and matters of the law
- cultural products: film / music / art / TV / literature
- media, representation, and social images
- sexuality, otherness, erotic practice
- the body: subject, object, identity
- theory, methodology, practice
- feminism and postfeminism: representation and invisibility
- queer and trans*: changing images of femininity and masculinity

Please send an abstract, including a short bio, of no more than 300 words to g.roles@hotmail.com by 10th March 2013.

Roles is an interdisciplinary research forum hosted by researchers at the University of Birmingham for the purpose of fostering discussion and debate. We hold regular seminars as well as our annual conference. For more details see the Roles website.
Teach Me Tonight

You really shouldn’t read from that book.

I mean seriously.

Put it down.

Oh well, you’re screwed.

A remake of Sam Raimi’s horror film franchise Evil Dead finally has a release date in 2013 after a couple of false starts, some casting shuffles and a change of director that had fans screaming for the wrong reasons.

As early as 2005 it had been confirmed that a remake of Evil Dead would be made. At that point it was to be produced by Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi, but would not include any references to the original characters. It was also said that the movie would be about a group of teenagers that go to the cabin and find the book, but the similarities with the 1981 version would end there.

However, in August 2007, Bruce Campbell revealed in a radio interview that the proposed remake was “going nowhere” and “fizzled” due to extremely negative fan reaction.

The rumor mill went quiet after that, until July, 2011 when Ghost House Pictures (Sam Raimi’s production company) announced it would be producing a remake with Fede Alvarez directing and Diablo Cody refreshing the script. That’s when the legions of The Dead cried foul.

Alvarez has no feature film experience, having only directed four short films previously, with three of those being of the foreign language variety.

Never mind that Alvarez was Raimi’s hand-pick for the director’s seat. Three years ago Raimi sent Ghost House Pictures into a bidding war with a bunch of major studios to sign a seven-figure deal with Alvarez to have him direct a then unnamed feature-length film (hint, hint) based on Alvarez’s 4-minute short entitled Panic Attack.

And that, my indy-film-making friends, it’s how your efforts make bank.

But just when Evil Dead was once again about to die at the hands of its rabid followers, Sam Raimi himself jumps into a writer’s seat alongside Codi and a writer friend of Alvarez’s, Rodo Mendez.

And with the fan boys and girls finally sated the project got legs, albeit pus-filled ones.

In October, Bruce Campbell assured fans at the New York Comic Con that Evil Dead’s freshman director Alvarez’s remake would be “awesome.” Campbell, of course, starred in the original film as the beleaguered hero Ashley “Ash” Williams, a regular Joe who finds himself in a living nightmare after a quick trip to a cabin in the woods with some pals turns deadly once demonic forces are unleashed. The movie was a labor of love for the young Campbell and Raimi, who, along with producer Robert G. Tapert, birthed one of the most beloved (and profitable) low-budget indie horror franchises ever.

If you’re wondering if computer-generated gore will ruin the gritty feel of the original film, rest assured. Alvarez stated that the film will heavily rely on practical effects rather than CG effects. In his chat with our buds at Bloody Disgusting, Alvarez stated:

We didn’t do any CGI in the movie. Everything you will see is real, which was really demanding. CGI is cheaper and faster, but I hate that. We researched a lot of illusion tricks. For instance a girl goes to cut her arm with a kitchen knife, and we knew from day one the camera would start wide and you would see the knife and her arm, and the audience would think there would be a cut any moment, but we don’t cut, she just cuts and starts screaming. So we tried to push the boundaries there.

Back in April of this year, actor Shiloh Fernandez was reported cast as the main lead role of “David” and Lily Collins had the female lead, but by January of this year, Collins has dropped out of film.

Then in February it was announced that actress Jane Levy, star of the television series Suburgatory would be replacing Collins as “Mia,” the remake’s version of Bruce Campbell’s character Ash (the question around the camp fire is whether or not Mia, like Ash, will be the last man woman standing). Casting was rounded out with Lou Taylor Pucci, Elizabeth Blackmore and Jessica Lucas.

A couple weeks ago a new “red-band trailer” for Evil Dead was released.

If you see a lot of movies, you’re probably familiar with the green screen before previews that says “This preview has been approved for all audiences.” A “red-band trailer” has a red screen that says “This preview has been approved for RESTRICTED audiences”.

It’s the equivalent of an R-rated movie which means the content is intended for a more mature audience and probably blocked from your work computer. So kids, avert your eyes while the rest of us take a gander at what we’re in for…

[Warning: Mature content ahead. At least one F-bomb, and some gruesome images. I mean, really gruesome. Yuck -- the editor]

It’s too early to say if the new Evil Dead will find the same kind of love as its predecessor, but it certainly looks like a respectful — and scary — take.

The premise is intact: A small band of friends heads to a remote cabin, inadvertently reads some demon resurrection passages written in an ancient language and, faster than you can say “bloody stump,” their bodies are becoming hosts to a dark force seeking to do in the living.

Attractive people under the age of 23 should never, ever spend time in woodland cabins. Everyone knows that.

Evil Dead is set to hit theaters on April 12th, 2013.

A worthy effort or another example of tampering with a classic? You decide and post a comment or drop a line to sue@blackgate.com.

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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, David Peace, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.

For years, I have admired Colleen Mondor’s writing at her blog, Chasing Ray, and her YA columns at Bookslut. Her memoir The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska skillfully tells the story of her time as dispatcher for an Alaska charter and commuter airline, specifically the pilots who faced treacherous conditions almost daily.

Nancy Pearl wrote of the book:

“It’s a story of danger, of loss, of courage, of unsavory landing strips and forbidding mountains, of delivering mail and making mercy flights, of adrenaline and prayer, of unpredictably changeable winds and oncoming storms, of snow, of difficult decisions, of good fortune and bad luck, and, always, of the unbelievable cold. But it’s also about why we choose the lives we do, how we rewrite our pasts to make sense of ourselves to the person we’ve become, what we choose to remember, and how and why we forget what we do: It’s about myth-making, storytelling and memory. . . .”

Stream a Spotify playlist of these tunes. If you don’t have Spotify yet, sign up for the free service.

In her own words, here is Colleen Mondor’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir, The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska:

The Map of My Dead Pilots is primarily about commercial flying in Alaska, both the past and present, and most specifically the Fairbanks commuter/charter airline where I worked as lead dispatcher in the mid 1990s. (I refer to it as “the Company”.) More than aviation though, during the writing process it became a book about the stories we tell ourselves when times are tough, how we make ourselves believe in a time and place we inhabit and how we create fictions to understand our truths. Every pilot has a flying story they long to tell and every one of them is true no matter how many lies it might contain. MAP is about the truths we clung to once upon a time in a place few people ever visit and yet with every passing day more and more people claim to know. It was not hard for me to come up with a soundtrack for MAP, it was only challenging to make sure it wasn’t too bleak while still, for sure, being true.

Tracy Chapman “Give Me One Reason”

More than any other song, this was the anthem at the “Company”. We spent a lot of time talking about reasons to go and a lot of time listening to Tracy Chapman tell us that we needed to find a reason to stay.

Bruce Springsteen “Glory Days”

The Company was never easy and sometimes it was indescribably hard. But it was also the most interesting job I ever had, and the friends I made there are friends for life. It was my “Glory Days” and they did pass all too quickly, almost before we knew they were gone.

Joe Cocker “With a Little Help From My Friends”

I couldn’t have made it without them – I wouldn’t have wanted to make it without them. The Company is a story with a happy ending because we were there together and we knew then and still know today how much we matter to each other.

U2 “Beautiful Days”

There were those mornings when the sky was clear and the air was crisp and we could see forever. All of us would be out in front of the hangar and the planes would be taxiing by and you knew you were doing a job like no other in a place that people dreamed of. Those were days to hold tight as memories because I was lucky to have them and we were all lucky to live them.

Bruce Springsteen “Jungleland”

As much as “Jungleland” is thoroughly about New Jersey, there are portions of it that speak very much to Fairbanks and the Company. It’s the song for any place that is tired and worn and harsh and if ever there was a place where poets did not speak then it was in that building on the East Ramp of Fairbanks International where the planes were old and dirty, the carpet was torn, dust coated every surface and duct tape held it all together. “Jungleland” is our song as much as anyone’s.

And the poets down here
Don’t write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded
Not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

David Bowie “Heroes”

Heroics is the cheap myth sold to very nearly every pilot who goes to work in Alaska – look no further than reality tv for how it is still a job wrapped up in glory stories of serving as a “lifeline for the isolated rural inhabitants”. The truth is there are very few heroes to be found there and yet everyone in the industry falls for the illusion because we need to believe that the demands placed on the job are worth a higher purpose – that you struggle so hard because it matters so much.

After all, being a hero is way better than being just a guy who flies loads of pop and potato chips across the tundra.

My friend “Sam”, who would not be alive today if he wasn’t such a great pilot, is the hero of MAP. He suffered more than most, he struggled mightily against bosses who seemed hell bent on pushing him until he broke, and he very nearly lost himself forever in the Arctic. Someday he will believe me when I tell him how much we all admire him for making it. When I hear Bowie sing “Heroes”, it’s Sam I think of.

Floggin’ Molly “If Ever I Leave This World Alive”

Not long before my friend “Luke” crashed into a mountain outside Kotzebue he took a trip to Ireland with his mother. On the day she was notified across the country by state troopers of her son’s death, she called us to ask what had happened and her voice on the phone to a friend of mine – her wails of “why” over and over again – is something I have never forgotten. He was an Irish boy, his mother’s only son, her one child, raised without a father and full of more life than most. When I hear these words, I always think of her pain and how much I’m sure he was thinking of her in his last fearful moments:

If I ever leave this world alive
I`ll take on all the sadness
That I left behind

He was her heart, and sometimes a broken heart can’t be mended.

Pretenders “2000 Miles”

In September 1929 Russ Merrill took off from Anchorage and disappeared, two months later fellow pilot Ben Eielson took off from Teller, outside Nome, and vanished as well. Eielson’s body, along with his mechanic, would be found two months later but with the exception of a small scrap of wing fabric, Merrill and his aircraft were never seen again. When I wrote about their deaths it was the refrain of “He’ll be back by Christmas time” that I heard again and again in my head especially when I thought of Russ Merrill’s young sons. Their fellow pilots looked for them for so long, in those “frozen and silent nights”. This is a song that almost seems made for these winter tragedies.

Warren Zevon “Keep Me In Your Heart”

I thought I was writing about flying with MAP but I wasn’t, not really. I was writing to remember and even more importantly, I was writing never to forget. I hope I accomplished the sentiment that Warren Zevon so eloquently presents in this song; I hope that Luke and Bryce and all the ones we lost will linger in the memories of those now who never knew them but through their stories remember them just the same. And the ones who made it, I hope MAP helps them live forever.

And finally, the song I did not listen to:

Harry Belafonte “Mr. Bojangles”

On June 11, 1999, when “Bryce” crashed and died in the Yukon River, I was in Florida preparing for my father’s funeral. I had not intended to include him in this book about Alaska aviation but I could not write about the losses that summer without including him; it was impossible. On June 3rd I walked into his room and Mr. Bojangles was playing on the small stereo. He opened his eyes, smiled at me and then, over the hours that followed he slipped into a coma. On June 5th the strongest man who ever lived was gone. I hear this song and I see him dying; I doubt I will ever listen to it again.

I miss him still like I did then; I miss him every single damn day.

Colleen Mondor and The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska links:

the author’s website
excerpt from the book

Beth Kephart Books review
By Singing Light review
Dead Presidents review
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner review
Nancy Pearl review
School Library Journal review
Sonderbooks Book Review review

Booklist interview with the author
Bookslut contributions by the author
MotherReader interview with the author
Whatever guest post by the author

also at Largehearted Boy:

Book Notes (2012 – ) (authors create music playlists for their book)
Book Notes (2005 – 2011) (authors create music playlists for their book)
my 11 favorite Book Notes playlist essays

100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
52 Books, 52 Weeks (weekly book reviews)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics highlights)
Daily Downloads (free and legal daily mp3 downloads)
guest book reviews
Largehearted Word (weekly new book highlights)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, literature, and pop culture links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film’s soundtracks)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week’s CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists

Largehearted Boy

The Dead of Winter
Chris Priestley
Bloomsbury USA Childrens (215 pp, .99 hardcover, January 31, 2012)
Reviewed by Michaele Jordan

First and foremost, the reader needs to know that The Dead of Winter is a traditional ghost story. If you are looking for a modern view point or a cross-genre twist, this is not the book for you. It cleaves to Gothic imagery and draws on many classic antecedents.

It is set in the Victorian era; the year is not specified, but the setting makes it plain. Like many earlier works, it is presented as the journal of a first person narrator, told from a distant future, and opening with a solemn assertion that the contents of the book are entirely true, little as the reader may be inclined to believe them. Preface aside, Priestley draws on a Dickensian model to provide the young protagonist so necessary to a children’s book.

The story opens with Michael Vyner at his mother’s funeral. He is now an orphan, as his father has been dead for years. In fact, the father—an army man—died heroically, saving the life of his superior officer, Sir Stephen Clarendon. Sir Stephen has always been grateful, but Michael’s mother was too proud to accept much assistance, so Michael has never met the man his father died to save or even been encouraged to take pride in his father’s courageous sacrifice.

All that is about to change. Having no surviving family, Michael is made Sir Stephen’s ward, and summarily shipped off to spend Christmas with his new guardian, prior to being enrolled in a prestigious new school. His situation is not genuinely intolerable, as Sir Stephen is both wealthy and well-intentioned, but Michael is still too bereft to appreciate any kindness done him, and takes the sudden changes in his circumstances badly. It is a sullen and ill-mannered child that first comes to Hawton Mere.

Mr. Priestley comes into his own in his description of Hawton Mere. He vividly renders a flat, forbidding landscape in which miles of dank fenland suggest a hopeless future and an empty heart. Before Michael’s carriage even reaches the house, he is subjected to his first spectral apparition, a woman in white so seemingly solid that he demands the carriage be stopped and an immediate search conducted for the piteous figure. Of course, no such woman is found; nor is there anywhere in the vicinity she could possibly hide. So Michael arrives in his new home already under suspicion of being either a liar or crazy or both.

Sir Stephen may mean well, but he is decidedly peculiar, and afflicted with an incapacitating nervous disorder. His sister Charlotte is beautiful and mysterious and only slightly less peculiar than her brother. Their home is a monstrous antique pile protected by a moat; its dark and maze-like interior is equipped with numerous shadowy alcoves and a tomb-like priest hole. Within this setting—itself, worthy of The House of Usher—the echoes of earlier tragedy still linger. Lady Clarendon inexplicably fell from a balcony to her death some years before and Sir Stephen has never recovered from the loss of his dear wife. Nor has the memory of his cruel father ever faded.

Michael is plagued almost immediately by inexplicable sounds of banging, weeping and groaning. Panels that have been sealed shut for decades open suddenly to trap him. Of course, no one else can see or hear any of these things but him. And as Christmas draws closer, the apparitions around him grow progressively more dangerous.

It is all resolved in the end, of course. To find out how, you must read the book.

__________

Black Gate

Fantasy Book Critic

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