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FOR PAPERS
Forum Kritika: Guy on the Edge
Posted on November
25, 2013 / Filed under Call for Papers / Permalink
To describe Nora
Aunor as a fixture in Philippine cinema is like saying that Shakespeare knew
how to wield a pen. Of course a national cinema will be larger than the sum of
its stars, just as literature is much more than what its canonical authors
might suggest. But just as there will be writers and then there’s Bill (and Leo
and Virginia and a few Johns), contemporary Pinoy movies can already be
understood as featuring any number of stars, starting with that name, first and
foremost, and everyone else’s afterward.
As a Philippine
multimedia star, Nora Aunor (“Guy” to her fans) was sui generis, with Filipino
cultural observers, starting with Nick Joaquin, taking careful note of her
emergence, then barely as an adult. Her growth as a prominent performing artist
can be tracked in milestones that a large group of loyal devotees, now
dispersed in several countries, are able to recount from memory. A simplistic
way of explaining her success is that she had been extraordinarily gifted and
cannily aware of her strengths and limitations, so that she could identify
exactly which challenges she could excel in; a significant number of her
detractors would add that she had also been lucky as well as shrewd in
exploiting the right kind of people.
Nevertheless even
Aunor’s worst critics would be unable to deny her multifarious accomplishments
in film, theater, television, and musical recording, as well as her iconic
significance as a genuine one-of-the-masses type of phenomenon: rural poor,
dark-skinned, unruly and deeply ambivalent in her attitude toward the trappings
of success. In line with discussions of film auteurs and star texts initiated
by such publications as the Cahiers du Cinéma as well as scholars like Richard
Dyer and Christine Gledhill, Kritika Kultura will be covering the persona and
output of Nora Aunor as the topic of a forthcoming forum.
The forum invites
scholars of Philippine star-text studies, spectatorship, and the performing
arts to provide assessments of the person (and her persona) originally hailed
as the country’s first “superstar.” Paper proposals should be submitted
electronically to the forum editor, Joel David, at
<joelsky2000@yahoo.com>, no later than November 30, 2013. Any
contribution will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt. Authors whose
proposals are accepted should finalize their articles (5,000 to 7,000 words,
observing the sixth edition of the Modern Language Association handbook) on or
before January 31, 2014. These articles will then undergo the standard process
of double-blind peer review for academic journals.
Proposals should
consist of no longer than a one-page submission, comprising the following:
title of the submission; name(s), affiliation(s), and short description(s) of
the author(s) [up to a maximum of two per article]; topic area of the
submission; three or four keywords that describe the submission; contact information
comprising mailing address(es), e-mail address(es), and/or phone number(s); and
a single-paragraph paper proposal. Kindly note that fan studies may be
considered, but fan testimonials and hagiographic appreciations, no matter how
vital to the subject, will not in themselves be appropriate material for the
journal. For further inquiries, please contact the forum editor (email
<joelsky2000@yahoo.com>) or Kritika Kultura (email
<kritikakultura@gmail.com>, cc <kritikakultura@admu.edu.ph>,
<kritikakultura@yahoo.com>, and <vincenz.serrano@gmail.com>).
Source: Kritika
Kultura
http://kritikakultura.ateneo.net/call-for-papers/forum-kritika-guy-on-the-edge
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