CfP: edited collection “Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America”. Deadline: Feb 01, 2022.
Call for Papers: Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America Anja Louis (Sheffield Hallam) and...
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CfP: conference “Regulating African Digital Media”. May 2022 @ Birmingham City University (UK). Deadline: Jan 14, 2022.
Conference on the Regulation of Old and New Media Forms in Africa Birmingham Centre for Media and...
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CfP: US Studies online special issue “Drama and Cinematic Adaptation”. Deadline: November 26, 2021.
The interaction between American drama and cinema – put more crudely, Broadway and Hollywood – has...
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CfP: edited collection “The Digital Age of Superheroes: Superheroes and Data”. Extended deadline: December 03, 2021
In reacting to the zeitgeist, or prevailing focus, of an era, the superhero has previously fought...
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”I WANTED TO TELL THESE STORIES SO THAT MY MOTHER COULD ACCESS THEM”. IS STEVE MCQUEEN’S SMALL AXE CINEMA OR TELEVISION? AND DOES IT MATTER? by Christine Geraghty
Last year, Ian Greaves wrote an illuminating CST blog about the ‘turmoil’ COVID had created for...
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CfP: edited collection “Television and Empathy”. Deadline: December 19, 2021.
What is television’s capacity to elicit empathy? ‘Stories move us. They make us feel more emotion,...
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AGAINST POLITICAL OSTRICH-ISM: CAN LOCAL TELEVISION AMPLIFY POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT? by Elke Weissmann
Is it just me, or do you currently want to spend a lot of time sticking your head in the sand? I...
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WHEN TELEVISION STOPPED: 1939-46 by Jonathan Bignell
Anniversary celebrations are being planned to mark the start of BBC radio in 1922 and Channel 4 TV...
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CfP: edited collection “Contemporary Screen Music and Sound Production”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2022.
In the introduction to The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (2017), Miguel Mera,...
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CfP: JAFP special issue “Making Monsters: The Production of Terror”. Deadline: Nov 30, 2021.
Media Journeys 2021 Special Issue: Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Making...
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CfP: edited collection “Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East”. Deadline: Nov 15, 2021.
Call for Book Proposals Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East Peter Lang Publishing ...
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2022: THE YEAR OF BRITISH BROADCASTING ANNIVERSARIES by John Ellis
There’s an avalanche of anniversaries coming in 2022, a veritable tsunami of television history....
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REPEAT TELEVISION: TALKING PICTURES CHANNEL AND FREEVIEW by Kenneth Longden
My last contribution to CST focused on the CBS True Crime programme, Murder by The Sea (CBS, 2018-...
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TO BE (DIS)CONTINUED?: SERIES VERSUS SERIAL TV by Richard Hewett
I struggle increasingly to explain to my students the basic difference between a television series...
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DETECT’S EUROPEAN AUDIENCE STUDY: INSIGHTS INTO THE PREFERENCES AND PASSIONS OF EUROPEAN CRIME VIEWERS by Cathrin Bengesser, Marica Spalletta, Pia Majbritt Jensen & Paola De Rosa
Crime is one of the most prevalent and most-viewed genres on our TV screens and the...
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(NOT) WORKING FROM HOME by John Ritchie
And here we are again! And I’m still waiting for the bloody phone to ring to let me know which of...
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CfP: edited collection “Superheroes: A Companion”. Deadline: Nov 30, 2021.
A new collection on superheroes is proposed for Peter Lang. As media texts show us superheroes...
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WHO CAN SAY ‘POO’?! THE CHILDREN’S MEDIA CONFERENCE IN COPENHAGEN POINTED TO MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN HOW TO THINK OF CHILDREN’S TELEVISION IN DENMARK AND THE UK by Eva Novrup Redvall
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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TELEVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND FOOTBALL, ONCE MORE by Toby Miller
I’m revisiting a column from 2020 about the issues listed above, in order to keep up with recent...
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YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT… by John Ritchie
You know this, this blogging lark for these lovely people, all began for me last year when I saw a...
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CfP: 3rd JICMS international conference “Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future”. June 16-18, 2022 @ The American University of Rome (ITA). Deadline: Dec 05, 2021.
Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future...
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CfP: conference “New Creative Praxis in Film and Television”, May 06-07, 2022 @ Istanbul Bilgy University (TK). Deadline: Dec 01, 2021.
New Creative Praxis in Film and Television planned for May 6-7, 2022 marks Istanbul Bilgi...
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CfP: edited collection “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix 2018-20)”. Deadline: Oct 31, 2021
In the world of teen drama (or YA drama, as some prefer), there are a number of ways to represent...
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THE LANGUAGE OF LASSO by Liz Giuffre
The language of Ted Lasso is popular culture. The cheesiest of music, the rommiest of Rom-Coms,...
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LET’S CELEBRATE TELEVISION – THE CST WAY! by Elke Weissmann
Wow, what a year it’s been. If, before the pandemic, people thought television was dead, now we...
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