[csaa-forum] CFP: Entertainment at ANZCA

[Christy Collis]

"Entertainment"
ANZCA09: Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship conference stream
QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, Australia, July 8-10, 2009
www.anzca09.org <http://www.anzca09.org><http://www.anzca09.org>

Stream convenors:
Associate Professor Alan McKee, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT
Dr Christy Collis, Creative Industries Faculty, QUT

Entertainment is the preeminent form of culture around the world. It has the largest audiences, it is the most popular form of culture, and it is the biggest cultural industry. This has been true throughout the modern period. Yet entertainment has received very surprisingly little academic attention. Beyond dismissals by Cultural Theory and some attention to the Business of Entertainment, it is only recently that we have seen concerted academic work which takes entertainment seriously and seeks to understand, celebrate and write about entertainment, past, present, and future.
The Media and Citizenship stream of the ANZCA09: Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship conference is seeking papers and panels that address the following topics:

 *   The history of any particular entertainment media, including but not limited to comics, games, television, popular music, magazines and popular books.
 *   Theories explaining the importance of entertainment to human culture.
 *   Analyses of individual examples of successful entertainment.
 *   The business of entertainment.
 *   The power of entertainment when linked to other areas of culture - for example, edutainment and infotainment.
 *   Any other topic related to understanding the workings and importance of entertainment.
Abstracts and papers are due by Friday 5 February, 2009, and should be submitted directly to the ANZCA09 web site at www.anzca09.org <http://www.anzca09.org><http://www.anzca09.org> . Enquiries about this stream should be directed to Associate Professor Alan McKee at a.mckee at qut.edu.au<mailto:a.mckee at qut.edu.au>; or Dr Christy Collis at c.collis at qut.edu.au.

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