MY SERENDIPITOUS ARCHIVE by Pat Holland
What do the following programmes have in common? The Antiques Roadshow from Peterborough (BBC1);...
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WHEN TWO BECOMES ONE by Richard Hewett
As this goes to press (can we say that about online materials?), series four of Line of...
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IRISH TELEVISION VIEWING IN A NOT SO GLOBAL TELEVISION ECONOMY by Sarah Arnold
When I moved from the UK to Ireland in 2015/16 my transition in terms of the availability...
Read MoreCFP: Game of Thrones – An International Conference, 6-8 September 2017, University of Hertfordshire
6-8 September 2017 University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Deadline for proposals EXTENDED: 18 April 2017 Conference email: GOTconf2017@herts.ac.uk Keynote Speakers:...
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MENTAL HEALTH — ON TV AND IN HE by Lorna Jowett
Having recently returned to work after several weeks off work because of anxiety and clinical...
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THE NIGHTLY SHOW: WHO’S WATCHING? by Lyndsay Duthie
It was a bold scheduling move on the part of ITV, the UK’s main commercial television channel....
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ROOTS (HISTORY, 2016) VERSUS ROOTS (ABC, 1977) by Elke Weissmann
I finally got around to watching the new version of Roots (if you haven’t seen it yet, episodes...
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TEACHING TELEVISION: FEMINISM, FOCUS AND ME by Kim Akass
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I had thought that Higher Education was for adults, albeit young...
Read MoreCfP Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media
University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom 23 June 2017 This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or...
Read MoreCFP: The Journal of Film & Video Special Issue on Queer Production Studies
Guest Editor: Alfred L. Martin, Jr. University of Colorado Denver Alfred.Martin@UCDenver.edu DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 PROPOSED PUBLICATION DATE: Fall/Winter 2018 Production studies has often failed to include sexuality and...
Read MoreCFP: InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies – DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS – InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT The purpose of this special issue of InMedia is to further the understanding of the documentary by linking it to the notion of...
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WIKILEAKS AND THE T.V. SET by Toby Miller
I don’t have much time for WikiLeaks or its narcissist-in-chief. Anyone surprised by their...
Read MoreCFP: ‘Practice and/as Media Industry Research’ – Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2017
Hosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June 2017 Confirmed Keynotes: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim, Bournemouth University John Mateer, University of York Prof Bambo...
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE WRINKLES GONE? by Jamila Baluch
Contemporary media culture seems to suggest that it is unacceptable for a woman to look her age if...
Read MoreCFP: Exploring Boundaries in Film and Television, Wednesday 14 June 2017, CATH Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth...
Read MoreTHE JOCELYN HAY VOICE OF THE LISTENER & VIEWER LECTURE 2017 TUESDAY 21 MARCH 2017 AT 7.00 PM (6.30pm for a 7.00pm start.)
The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD The VLV is delighted that Lord Puttnam CBE has agreed to deliver the Jocelyn Hay Voice of the Listener & Viewer Lecture 2017. “The Jocelyn...
Read More“The future of media in Wales”, 29 March 2017, Cardiff
The third annual IWA Cardiff Media Summit entitled “The future of media in Wales” is being held on March 29th, 2017 in Cardiff. Hosted by the IWA in partnership with BBC Cymru Wales and University of South Wales, and supported...
Read MoreBeyond the Visible: Contemporary Visualizations of Loss, Illness and the ‘Unseen’ in Representations of the Family, 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm)
Northern Charter 5th Floor, Commercial Union House 39 Pilgrim Street Newcastle NE1 6QE Thursday 23rd March 2017 (1:00pm – 6:45pm)...
Read MoreCFP: Food is a Feminist Issue: Media, Bodies, Appetites, 30 June 2017, University of York
In 1978 Susie Orbach declared fat a feminist issue. This slim volume of writing put forward a radical new understanding of feminine embodiment and the gendered psychology of eating. Taking place almost four decades later, this...
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BEYOND THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT: EUROPEAN CHILDREN’S TV IN BRITAIN by Jonathan Bignell
I blogged last year for CSTonline about how shared conceptions of childhood facilitated links...
Read MoreCFP: Bridging Gaps: Where is the Critic in Television Journalism?
Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) 5th International Conference CUNY School of Journalism New York City, USA August 31-September 1, 2017 Conference Keynote Speaker: Andrew Mendelson Associate Dean & Professor,...
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AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION OF CANONICITY by Richard Hewett
Canon: A collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine: ‘the biblical canon’; The works...
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TEACHING GENRE USING NETFLIX by Jennifer O’Meara
Although Netflix’s approach to genre is different to those predominant in screen studies, the...
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OBJECT TROUVE: PLAY AWAY, ORDINARY CHILDREN’S TELEVISION AND PERSONAL MEMORIES by Billy Smart
There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that...
Read MoreCfP Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability and the Media, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom 23 June 2017
This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media. The advent of digital media has...
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