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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are seeking additional expressions of interest and proposals for our Bloomsbury book series,
<i>Asian Celebrity and Fandom</i>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies Series is devoted to the publication of scholarly books that critically examine star, celebrity and fandom
cultures in specific Asian countries, in trans-Asian or trans-national contexts, and among Asian diasporas.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Topics and themes include, but are not limited to, the following areas:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Celebrity politics in Asia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Asian micro-celebrities and influencers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Asian star bodies</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Transnational Asian stardom and celebrity</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Affective Asian stardom and celebrity</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Celebrity governance and public diplomacy in Asia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Fan culture in Asia (on and off line)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· The Asian fan economy in national and transnational contexts</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">· Post-colonial explorations of Asian celebrity and fandom</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The series publishes monographs, co-authored books, and edited collections. All proposal and manuscripts are subject to rigorous peer review. Please
see the attached flyers for an overview of the series and the books that are in pipeline.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please do get in touch with Jian and me if you have an exciting idea for a book,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Sean and Jian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sean Redmond, </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AFABAB">Professor of Film and Television</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AFABAB">Australian Field Leader for Film (The Australian's Research Magazine, 2023)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#AFABAB">"Cinema is science fiction: this startling, persuasive conclusion guides Sean Redmond's enquiry into the liquid state of digital culture seen through the lenses, heard through the
speakers and felt through the trackpads of science fiction film and television. From capitalism to race, surveillance to the sublime, in a brilliant constellation of close readings Redmond tracks the new heavens and hells of our compulsorily fluid condition”
– Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5">Podcast: <a href="https://disruptr.deakin.edu.au/podcasts/movies-popcorn-and-pop-stars-why-celebrity-matters/?fbclid=IwAR3XIMvCwvMsWrZxtImvpvRSCSrwuUP569Q6EPE-qp1WKaKvdzVU-krgdWg" title="https://disruptr.deakin.edu.au/podcasts/movies-popcorn-and-pop-stars-why-celebrity-matters/?fbclid=IwAR3XIMvCwvMsWrZxtImvpvRSCSrwuUP569Q6EPE-qp1WKaKvdzVU-krgdWg"><span style="color:#A5A5A5">https://disruptr.deakin.edu.au/podcasts/movies-popcorn-and-pop-stars-why-celebrity-matters/?fbclid=IwAR3XIMvCwvMsWrZxtImvpvRSCSrwuUP569Q6EPE-qp1WKaKvdzVU-krgdWg</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5">Personal Website: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:#A5A5A5"><a href="https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/seanredmond" title="https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/seanredmond"><span style="color:#A5A5A5">https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/seanredmond</span></a></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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