Get in touch with us for a Zoom link and share widely! May be of interest to BAFTSS BAFTSS Film/making Education SIG SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) Central LAMDA

We also consider contemporary contexts that have significantly impacted actor training and working performative practices, including the Covid pandemic and advanced digital technologies.

The session will bring together scholarly and practical approaches to consider how training practices shape professional performance on and off screen and their impact on accessing the creative industries.

Our friends SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG have in store a great virtual talk with Cynthia Baron and Yannis Tzioumakis, authors of Acting Indie: Industry, Aesthetics, and Performance on May, 3 at 1pm EST/6pm GMT. Spread the word! Register here: shorturl.at/gsxBR

We're really excited for this upcoming book event from our friends at Performance & Stardom. Click on the op for more details about this great forum featuring the book's editors, contributors, and the artist behind the beautiful cover. DM them for the link to the Zoom event!

Delighted that our panel 'Faith in Fakes: 'Smart' Stardom & Immersive Technologies' has been accepted for #SCMS24 , with exciting papers by Sarah Thomas, Christopher Holliday & Szilvia Ruszev. My paper will historicize AR beauty filters via analog filtration effects. Preview below.

University of Liverpool is recruiting Research Fellows in any discipline at Grade 8 or 9 (5 year fellowship leading to permanent post). Our Communication and Media department (and Screen Studies research group) is a great place to work, if you're curious liverpool.ac.uk/research/fello…

Check this out! The School of the Arts at Liverpool University has funding available for PhDs (full time, three years). This includes for my department, Communication and Media.
liverpool.ac.uk/arts/news/stor…

Come and join us this Wednesday on Zoom, 6-7:30pm (UK time) for a roundtable celebrating the publication of Celebrity Studies special issue 'Beyond the Bumbling Englishman: Hugh Grant Special Issue' co-edited by Alice Guilluy and Dr Eleonora Sammartino.

Twitter might be dying, but star images are still alive in our imagination! Join us tomorrow for our online roundtable 'Beyond the Biopic: Performing Star Images on Screen'. We look forward to talking about this topic with you all.

Acting and performance scholar-type people: Does anyone know of any articles (scholarly or mainstream press) on Ryan Gosling performances? I've been looking for a while now and haven't come up with anything.
Thanks!

JOB VACANCY! Come work with me and others at Queer Britain amazing museum makers who are doing important work to record and celebrate queer history. You’ll play a vital role - a rare opportunity to shape the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum as Head of Collections queerbritain.org.uk/join-us

Calling out our SIG members! Don't forget our Performance & Stardom General Meeting this afternoon at 2:30pm on Zoom with new SIG convenors Sarah Thomas and Dr Eleonora Sammartino. Check your inboxes for the link. We hope to see many of you there!

Performance & Stardom is welcoming all Performance and Stardom SIG members to a General Meeting
this Wednesday (15th) at 2.30pm via Zoom, with new SIG convenors Sarah Thomas and Dr Eleonora Sammartino. Check your email for full details and Zoom link. Hope to see you there!

Does anyone have access to this book edited by Laura Bauer (2018) 'Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History'? I really need to look at the entry on Anthea Sylbert (pp.88-89). amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Hero…

The most recent edition of online journal TV/Series is a special issue on 'Series and Stars' with articles looking stars like Aniston, Adam West, Winslet, Jason Bateman and more. Article by - among others - Dr Gillian Kelly Thomas Wilson oline (oh!-'lighn) eaton Dr Carl Sweeney