CFP & 5 texts/subjects

Category: Film and television:

1)      Monsters of Film, Fiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman (Edited Collection)

This proposed collection will explore the cultural implications of and the societal fears and desires associated with the literal monsters of fiction, television, and movies, focusing specifically on the monsters of modernism and postmodernism.

Particular monsters should be related to in articles:

- Ghosts

- Leviathans/behemoths—anything from Mothra to Dragons

- Science Fiction related monsters such as artificial intelligence and cyborgs

Category: Romantic

2)      Toy Stories: The Toy as Hero (Collection)

The purpose is to examine the toys as heroes.

Analyzing the toys as:

-protectors of the children they love

-heroes of their own stories

-champions for the greater good.

Category: Children literature

3)      Revenge conference

This interdisciplinary conference will ask who seeks revenge and why, how it is done, how it is justified, how it is represented, how it feels to get revenge or be on the receiving end.

Topics including but not limited to:

-interpersonal revenge, state revenge, collective punishment

-technologies of revenge

-revenge cultures, blood feuds, and informal justice

-revenge, politics and world history

-revenge, terrorism, armed conflict and retaliation

-the personal and social costs of revenge

-revenge, justice and injustice

-revenge in art, literature and media

 

1.        Big hero 6: The cultural implication of Baymax in postmodernism

X: Baymax of Big hero 6

Y: A medical assistant; super hero; sacrifice

2.        The revengers: The justification of revenge

X: Six heroes of The Avengers

Y: the Tesseract; Loki; agency S.H.I.E.L.D;

3.        Edward Scissorhands: The implied identity of Edward Scissorhands

X: Edward Scissorhands

Y: scissorhands; gardening; Ice sculpture

4.        Ted (film): The companion of growth-up road

X: Teddy (Ted)

Y: meteor; dissipated life; revival

5.        The Velveteen Rabbit: The champion for the greater good

X: Velveteen rabbit

Y: favorite toy; scarlet fever; “Real”