WHEN IS A STORY MORE THAN REALITY? PROBABLY NOT WHEN NETFLIX PAYS A CRIMINAL FOR IT by Will Stanford Abbiss
When Inventing Anna debuted on Netflix on 11 February, a familiar debate about the relationship...
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CHANNEL4: PRIVATISING PUBLIC SPACE by John Ellis
On Monday evening 4 April, the UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries tweeted that she intended to...
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WHAT HAS CHANNEL 4 EVER DONE FOR US? (RHETORICAL) by Kenneth Longden
With the British government’s latest diktat concerning the future of the public service...
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WHERE HAVE ALL THE PMS GONE? (BUT DON’T MENTION THE WOMEN) by Christa van Raalte and Richard Wallis
When it comes to the shortage of Production Managers there’s a coyness about stating the...
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CfP: SSAAAANZ conference “The Materials of Screen Media” Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2022 @ online. Deadline: May 30, 2022.
“Materialism,” “materials,” “materiality,” “matter”: for scholars in screen and media studies, is...
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CfP: conference “Channel 4 then and now”. Sept 23-24, 2022 @ Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). Deadline: April 15, 2022.
Channel 4’s first programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1982, 40 years ago. Royal Holloway...
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BREATHE EASY, PETROLHEADS: NETFLIX/FORMULA ONE/TOBACCO by Toby Miller
The Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive (2018-) just entered its fourth season. It has...
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GETTING SOME PRACTICE IN by Richard Hewett
Like many of you (I’m guessing), I have spent much of my HE career teaching the theory elements on...
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CfP: conference “Fear 2000: Horror Undying” July 1-3, 2022 @ Sheffield Hallam University (UK & online). EXTENDED Deadline: April 11, 2022.
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and 80-minute panels to be presented at the sixth Fear...
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CfP: conference “Animals in the American Popular Imagination”. September 12-16, 2022 @ online. Deadline: April 24, 2022
In his book Animals on Television (2017), Brett Mills states that “representations of animals...
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CfP: CNRS Thematic School 2022 “Moral and Social Issues in Television Series”. July 3-9, 2022 @ CAES/CNRS Villa Clythia, Fréjus (FR). Deadline: March 31, 2022
Application period is extended for the 2022 CNRS Thematic School “Moral and Social Issues in...
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CfP: The 6th Vampire Academic Conference “Vampires Through the Ages”. June 15-17, 2022 @ Cardiff, Wales (UK). Deadline: March 20, 2022
Please note there is the option to present in person or virtually. The International Vampire Film...
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TAKING (SOME) TELEVISION SERIOUSLY by Christine Geraghty
Some of you may have seen the announcement of an issue of Open Philosophy (2022; 5:1) which is...
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IS IT ALL ACTUAL RUBBISH, NOW..? by John Ritchie
Oh jings, is it that time again? Already? For the semi-regular look into the lives, laughs and...
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CfP: edited collection “Television Comedy & Cultural Crisis”. Deadline: March 31, 2022
We are seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively titled Television Comedy &...
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CfP: Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Addressing the Nation’. Sept 2-3, 2022 @ online. Deadline: March 31, 2022
Autumn 2022 marks the centenary of the BBC. From almost the very start, women worked in many...
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CfP: workshop “Constructing Fantastical Worlds: from Antiquity to the Present”. June 30 – July 01, 2022 @ Amsterdam (NED). Deadline: March 15, 2022.
University of Amsterdam, Thursday 30th June – Friday 1st July 2022 Keynote Speakers: Dr Benjamin...
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CfP: ECREA pre-conference “The Impact of Streaming on Media Industries and Cultural Production”. Oct 17, 2022 @ online. Deadline: March 18, 2022
Organised by the ECREA Media Industries and Cultural Production Section Streaming media content,...
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CfP: Frames Journal issue #20 “Queering the quotidian – Queer phenomenological approaches to ‘lowbrow’ entertainment”. EXTENDED deadline: March 11, 2022
Queering the quotidian – Queer phenomenological approaches to ‘lowbrow’ entertainment Issue 20,...
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MOMENTS IN TELEVISION by Jonathan Bignell
I am keenly anticipating the simultaneous launch (in April) of three edited collections I have...
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THOUGHTS ABOUT PRESS CUTTINGS AND THE 21ST CENTURY by Pat Holland
Partly due to an excess of clutter and partly due to the onset of old age, I’ve recently decided...
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DAGGY CURRENT AFFAIRS APPEARANCES BY POLLIES? THERE MUST BE AN ELECTION COMING… by Liz Giuffre
Australians are facing a federal election soon. But first, some translations for international...
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CFP: virtual conference “Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television”. July 07, 2022. Deadline: March 31, 2022.
Contemporary film and TV in the UK appear to offer at least three interrelated problems for the...
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CfP: LearningOnScreen’s ViewFinder Issue 120: “Arena”. Deadline: March 14, 2022.
Call for articles – ViewFinder Issue 120: Arena LearningOnScreen’s ViewFinder Issue...
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BORGEN IS BACK! THIS TIME WITH AN ARCTIC ARENA AND ALSO TARGETING INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES by Anders Grønlund and Eva Novrup Redvall
When creator Adam Price created the political drama series Borgen for Danish television,...
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