‘NANETTFLIX’: HANNAH GADSBY, THE FEMINIST POLITICS OF TRAUMA AND THE NETFLIXIFICATION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE by Jilly Boyce Kay
In June 2018, a stand-up comedy show called Nanette dropped on Netflix. Written and performed by...
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CfP: edited collection “Difficult Death: Challenging Cultural Representations of Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture”. Deadline (no pun intended): May 01, 2021.
You are invited to submit 300-word abstracts for the forthcoming edited collection provisionally...
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CfP: JICMS special issue “Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime Drama”. Deadline: April 30, 2021.
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime...
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A VISIT TO THE REPAIR SHOP by Jaded Academic
[Cue Bill Paterson’s silkily smooth voiceover] Today, The Repair Shop is visited by Jaded...
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WHAT FUTURE FOR IRISH PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION?: RTÉ TELEVISION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADAPTATION by Sarah Arnold
September 2020 saw the establishment of the Future of Media Commission in Ireland, which is tasked...
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CfP: Studies in the Fantastic special issue on Lovecraft Country. Deadline: June 1, 2021.
HBO’s recent series Lovecraft Country takes up the monsters of H. P. Lovecraft’s universe, but...
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CfP: edited collection “Contemporary Russian Documentary”. Deadline: April 15, 2021.
The past three decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of documentary film in Russia: the...
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CfP: conference “Sound On Screen I”. June 17-18, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 14, 2021.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to...
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CFP: conference “Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures”. May 11-14, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 08, 2021.
When: May 11th – 14th 2021 Where: Online Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s...
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CfP: QSMPC special issue “Queer Representation in Contemporary Popular Television”. Deadline: March 12, 2021.
Representation of queer identities in twenty-first century popular television has undergone...
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TALK TO THE HAND! OR, WHY I WANT TO TALK TELEVISION WITH GLOBAL PLATFORM REPRESENTATIVES by Vilde Schanke Sundet
Why is it so hard to get interviews with representatives from global media platforms, and what...
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IT’S NOT A PENIS – IT’S A DILLERMAND by Thomas Enemark Lundtofte
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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INTERGENERATIONAL SPECTATORSHIP: DOCTOR WHO AT THE BEACH by Djoymi Baker
By any objective standards, as a Doctor Who and Star Trek fan I am a failure as a parent. It’s a...
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CfP: Media Journeys 2021 symposium “Making Monsters: The Production of Terror”. June 07, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 01, 2021.
Monsters stalk through modern media. They are heard howling from radio, film and television. They...
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CfP: Theorizing Zombiism 2 Conference: Undead Again. July 29-31, 2021. Extended deadline: March 10, 2021.
The objective of “Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead again” is to promote interdisciplinary...
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CfP: special section “Global TV Images of Female Masculinity in the 2010s”. Deadline: June 01, 2021.
Special Forum of Communication, Culture & Critique (Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2022)...
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CfP: The Velvet Light Trap #89 “Media Awards: Beyond the EGOT”. EXTENDED Deadline: Feb 28, 2021.
The “big four” American entertainment awards—the Emmy for television, the Grammy for music, the...
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NETFLIX ORIGINALS AND THE NORDIC NOIR BRAND by Kim Toft Hansen
Alongside the important position of Nordic Noir in European crime fiction, it comes as no surprise...
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FROM MONTY PYTHON TO MUSIC HALL by Jonathan Bignell
Last week I gave my first ever lecture by live online video. Not only was this my debut in a...
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THE TALK OF THE TON: FREE, WHITE AND 21 by Tré Ventour
It’s safe to say that I have been a fan of period dramas since I watched the BBC adaptation...
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CfP: SERIES Vol 7 No 1. Deadline: Feb 28, 2021
SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access...
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CfP: edited collection “When American Television Became American Literature”. Deadline: March 01, 2021.
**** Please note this is an up-dated posting for a volume originally entitled, The Platinum Age of...
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THE TRUMP SHOW JUMPS THE SHARK by Gary R. Edgerton
There are only two possible conclusions from listening to [Trump’s] folly: either the...
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NO MORE GUILT ABOUT ‘GUILTY PLEASURES’ by John Ellis
A shorter version of this article was published in The Conversation on 13/01/2021 TV viewing has...
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WHEN CONSENT IS NOT ENOUGH IN I MAY DESTROY YOU by Nektaria McWilliams
This blog first appeared in In Media Res | A MediaCommons Project Michaela Cole may have started...
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