‘THIS TOWN IS LIKE LIVING IN A CHRISTMAS CARD’. SOME SLIGHTLY RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE HALLMARK MODEL OF CHRISTMAS TV FILMS. by Tom Nicholls
Ext. Day Long shot of snow covered small town. As the camera gets closer to the town lights on...
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THE MAGIC OF THE DANISH CHRISTMAS CALENDAR by Gunhild Agger
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds...
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SUPERNATURAL: “THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN QUEERBAIT” by Rebecca Pearce
I decided to write this because I felt an almost divine force compelling me to have everybody in...
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FEUDING WITH COVID: THOUGHTS ON TELEVISION AND THE PANDEMIC by Douglas Howard
The post originally appeared on the Syracuse University Press blog on December 1, 2020. So,...
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CfP: SERIES Vol 7 No 1 (June-July 2021). Deadline: Feb 28, 2021.
“SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open...
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CfP: conference “Lonely are the Brave: The Western and Post-war America” June 15-17, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Feb 01, 2021.
The western was once seen as a key genre for understanding both Hollywood and the culture of the...
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CfP: CJoC special issue “Confronting Covid-19: Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy through the Media in Chinese Contexts”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2021.
Legitimacy justifies the acts and authority of social groups and organisations and makes them...
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CfP: conference “Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction”. June 17-18, 2021 @ Berlin (GER). Deadline: Feb 10, 2021.
June 17-18, 2021 Berlin (Germany) Deadline: February 10, 2021 A Japanese-German Conference and...
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A SUITABLE BOY – THE DEMANDS OF CROSS-CULTURAL VIEWING by Christine Geraghty with Roy Stafford
Back in July 2020, the BBC began screening its new Sunday night serial on BBC One in an attempt to...
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WHY ‘THE MANDALORIAN’ IS PURE ‘STAR WARS’ by Larry Siegel
The circle is now complete. George Lucas has acknowledged inspiration for his original Star Wars:...
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CfP: conference “The Witch Institute”. Aug 16-22, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Jan 25, 2021.
August 16-22, 2021; Virtual Event Queen’s University* Katarokwi/Kingston, Canada *Queen’s...
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CfP: edited collection “Global Horror Production in the Twenty-First Century”. Deadline: Jan 31, 2021.
co-edited by Eddie Falvey and Alice Haylett Bryan Call for Book Chapters As we move into the...
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CfP: conference “Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday”. April 21-23, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Jan 31, 2021.
Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts...
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CfA: Annual IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History 2021. Jan 7, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Dec 18, 2020.
Are you a graduate or doctoral student, post-doc, or early career professional currently working...
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CfP: ICA preconference “Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies”. May 27, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Dec 20, 2020.
International Communication Association Remote Preconference May 27, 2021 Organizers: David W....
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LIGHTING MUSIC TELEVISION: AN INTERVIEW WITH STUART PRING by Nicolas Pillai
The last time I’d seen Stu, we were both in tuxedos. It was a packed hotel ballroom in London, the...
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RECONFIGURING TELEVISUALITY: THE CONTINUING RE-DEFINITION OF THE FRONTIERS OF UNPREDICTABILITY by Max Sexton
This account builds on an earlier blog, ‘Problems of Style in High-end Drama’ and an article...
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CfP: The 17th Annual Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar, theme “Monstrosity”. April 20-22, 2021 @ online. Deadline: Jan 15, 2021.
The theme for the 2021 Spring Seminar is monstrosity. This theme explores the role of monsters and...
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THE EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL AND CREATIVE SECTORS AT A CROSSROADS by Manuel José Damásio
In the last decades, the European audiovisual and creative sectors have not stopped developing in...
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CURRENT AFFAIRS OR COMFORT TV?: VOD OFFERINGS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19 by JP Kelly
It’s been just over nine months since the UK entered its first COVID-19 lockdown (time flies when...
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“HOW DID 1970S BRITAIN ENABLE ITS DEADLIEST KILLER?” FEMINIST REVISIONIST RE-MEDIATION OF THE ‘RIPPER’ YEARS IN THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER FILES: A VERY BRITISH CRIME STORY (2019) by Hannah Hamad
17th November 2020 marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of 20-year-old University of Leeds...
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THE DANISH SERIAL ODA OMVENDT (‘ODA UPSIDE DOWN’) IS MAKING REBELLIOUS LIVE ACTION CHILDREN’S FICTION FOR 3-6-YEAR-OLDS TRAVEL BEYOND THE NORDICS
By Eva Novrup Redvall The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and...
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MIPCOM 2020 – KEY TAKEAWAYS by Heidi Keinonen and Eerika Vermilä
The annual MIPCOM market was organized in mid-October as a virtual event. We composed a summary on...
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NON-HUMAN PERFORMANCE, MISE-EN-SCENE AND THE TRANSNATIONAL: SKIPPY THE BUSH KANGAROO by Jonathan Bignell
How might we describe and evaluate non-human “performances” in television fiction? I blogged a...
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EMOTIONAL CONSOLATION, POLITICAL ESCAPISM AND POST-OBJECT FANDOM: RE-WATCHING AND RE-STAGING THE WEST WING IN 2020 by Rebecca Williams
Writing in April 2020, Joke Hermes and Annette Hill note that audiences turned to television...
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