AAS Panel: Star Culture

[Colleen Laird]

Hi all.  

I'm looking for papers to fill out my AAS panel on Star/Celebrity Culture.
Please contact me directly at calaird at uncg.edu if you are interested.  (CFP below)

Cheers,
Colleen


Panel: East Asian/Japanese Celebrity Culture
I am looking for presenters and a discussant for a panel on
celebrities and star systems in East Asian media, with an emphasis on film, television,
and advertising.  Potential proposals may
focus on film stars, tarento, and/or idoru production/maintenance networks or
on individual personae.  Please contact
Colleen Laird (calaird at uncg.edu), PhD Candidate at the University of Oregon and
Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.  For the sake of cohesion, I
am particularly interested in papers related to Japanese media industries (from
any historical era of star production), but I welcome all interested inquiries
regardless of geographic specificity.  If
there is a strong collection of papers across borders, I am willing to alter
the scope of the panel to accommodate.  Please
send me an email with an abstract (250 words max) and a brief bio.  Thank you.

Colleen A. Laird

Lecturer
Japanese Studies
Department of Language, Literature, and Culture
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

PhD Candidate
Japanese Cinema and Gender Studies
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Oregon