Registrations now open! Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025
It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television. The...
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CfP: ‘Beautiful Screens’ conference, June 19-20, 2025 @ University of Westminster (UK). Deadline: April 28, 2025
A CREAM, University of Westminster Conference June 19th and 20th 2025, University of Westminster,...
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Call for proposals: B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar
Original call here. Exploitation. Lowbrow. Cult. Underground. Trash. Poverty Row. Programmers....
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MOVING WITH THE TIMES: AN UPDATE FROM CSTONLINE by Toby Steiner, Sarah Lahm, and Kim Akass
First of all, a happy New Year – we at CSTonline hope you have all had a good winter break. And...
Read MoreCfP: FX Channel Original Documentary and Reality TV Series
This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and...
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CfP VIEW Issue #28 “With and Against the Grain: New Creative Dialogues with Broadcast Archives”. Deadline: Nov 29, 2024.
Editors: Bas Agterberg, Lisa Kerrigan, Dana Mustata, Alistair Scott This special issue of VIEW...
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LAYERED SPECTATORSHIP: THE CROWN AS PALIMPSEST by Leona Heimfeld
This blog post first appeared on the WFTHN blog on Oct 25, 2024. Siegfried Kracauer in...
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CfP: Media Mutations 16 “Unlocking Television Archives in the Digital Era”. 26-27 May, 2025 @ Bologna (IT). Deadline: Feb 10, 2025.
Organized by Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello, Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna), Susanne Eichner...
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‘THIS IS WHERE THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY’?: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AND SETTLER COLONIALISM by Melissa Beattie
‘The ghosts of the Confederacy will not die.’- Colonel Anderson (Kurt Smallwood); 1.1 One...
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TALK SHOWS LEAD THE SHIFT IN SPANISH PRIME-TIME TELEVISION by Elisa Paz
Spanish television programming has undergone a major shift in recent months, with the...
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A WOMAN’S WORK: WHAT THE EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION MANAGERS TELL US ABOUT GENDERED INEQUALITY IN UK TELEVISION by Christa van Raalte
Production Managers (PMs) in television production are mainly female, and as in other industries...
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THE ULTIMATE TV EVENT: HOW HAPPY VALLEY DEFIES AGEISM AND SEXISM IN THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY by Lucy Brown
This blog first appeared on Reflections: A Television Digest on 10 May 2024, and has subsequently...
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MEERA SYAL AND THE REPRESENTATION OF BRITISH ASIANS ON TELEVISION? by Uroosa Rashid
Backstage and background While attending the 2024 CST Conference: Sustainability and Television,...
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CfP: IAMHIST Conference 2025 “Decentering Media Histories and Practices”. 30 June – 2 July, 2025 @ University of Cape Town (ZA). Deadline: Dec 20, 2024.
IAMHIST is an international organisation of scholars, filmmakers, broadcasters and archivists...
Read More“FINDING YOUR FIT” WITHIN THE CONFERENCE CONTINUUM by Christopher Pullen
In this blog, I offer an autoethnographical account of what it means for TV scholars to take part in the conference continuum, which I argue is both familiar and strange in every iteration. Whether you are an ardent follower of...
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“IT’S NOT GOD, MISSY, IT’S ME”: REFLECTIONS ON ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION IN BIG MOUTH (2017-2024) by Enes Akdağ
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the conference presentation titled “(A)Sexual or...
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CfP: ACLA seminar “TV-Philosophy”. Deadline: Oct 14, 2024
This seminar aims to explore TV-series at their intersection with philosophy. As a newer sibling...
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CfP: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 “Continuity and Change in Media Representation”. Deadline: Oct 18, 2024
CFP: Continuity and Change in Media Representation The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 (to be...
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THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2017-) AND CLIMATE CHANGE? by Uroosa Rashid
A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is...
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FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS AND WEATHER AUTHORITIES: LOCAL BROADCAST METEOROLOGISTS IN SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS by Melissa Beattie
As a currently-peripatetic academic, I often live and travel in areas that are meteorologically...
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CfP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII “Entangled Media: Past and Present”. June 18-20, 2025 @ University of Lincoln (UK). Deadline: December 06, 2024.
This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will...
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CfP: Conference “Fight Clubs, American Psychos and Girls Interrupted”. December 14-15, 2024 @ University of Salford (UK). EXTENDED Deadline: Oct 6, 2024.
In the 1970s Anglo-American feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines began to explore the...
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Call for Chapters – ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie. Deadline: Sept 30, 2024.
Editors: Dr Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) and James Shelton (Buckinghamshire New...
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CfP: proposals for thematic issues of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Deadline: Oct 1, 2024.
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary...
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FACING THE MUSIC? THE GOOD PLACE’S JASON MENDOZA by Melissa Beattie
NB: This is a version of a paper given at the The Good Place: Welcome, everything is Fine...
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