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Saturday, December 02, 2006

A Borat Cluster

A reader sends the following call for papers to UD. UD thanks the reader very much.

From Slavic Review: Call for Papers: Borat: Eurasia, American Culture, and Slavic Studies


Few recent works of literature or film have made Eurasia as central and, perhaps, as flagrantly irrelevant to the American experience as Sacha Baron Cohen's hit film, Borat. In many respects this movie touches on key aspects of our discipline and expertise, and it also marks the distance that "Eurasia" has traveled in the American mentality since the appearance of other epoch-defining films (From Russia With Love, Doctor Zhivago, The Manchurian Candidate). Slavic Review invites its readers to submit contributions for a cluster of scholarly essays on Borat.