CFP Celebrity Forum Section, Celebrity Studies Journal
This is a general call for papers for Celebrity
Forum. Weâ??re looking for timely, provocative
and open-ended short pieces on current topics in celebrity studies.
Recent or forthcoming events and issues in the
world of celebrity that we would welcome
submissions on include, but are not limited to:
- The Royal Wedding: Prince William and Kate Middleton
- The Ashes: Reflections on the celebrity of
players, ex-players or the place of celebrity in post-colonial rivalries
- Celebrity & Austerity: adapting conspicuous consumption for the downturn
- Spies like us: Celebrity and the Russian spy scandal
- The Oprah Winfrey Network: Launching a networked celebrity brand
- Celebrity families/mothers: the Beckhams,
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Nicole Kidman, Jamie Oliver etc.
Celebrity Forum is a section of Celebrity
Studies Journal that provides a space for timely
responses to contemporary and historical issues
in celebrity culture. We encourage submissions
in two forms: 1,000-1,500 words (including
notes) â??think piecesâ??, including case
studies, which should be provocative and
open-ended, encouraging exchange and debate.
Alternatively, we invite 500-1,000 word
(including notes) submissions of comments and
views on previous articles published within
either the main section of the journal or
Celebrity Forum. Above all, Celebrity Forum is
designed to be dialogical and primarily engaged
with cutting edge developments in celebrity and its study.
Send abstracts or expressions of interest to:
Dr James Bennett
(j.bennett /at/ londonmet.ac.uk)
