WHEN THE NEWSREADER LAUGHS by John Ellis
ITV News at Ten, Wednesday 26 March, 24 minutes into the bulletin: Tom Bradby, the senior...
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SEXUAL VIOLENCE ON/OFF SCREEN IN ONE TREE HILL by Dr Susan Berridge
In November 2017, Variety magazine published an open letter in which 18 women from the cast and crew of US teen drama series, One Tree Hill (The WB/CW, 2003 – 2012) accused the programme’s showrunner, Mark Schwahn, of sexual...
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CfP: SIECE conference “Public Service Media’s Online Strategies: Industry Concepts and Critical Investigations” Nov 22-23, 2019 @ National Film Archive, Prague (CZ) Deadline: June 15, 2019.
Sponsored by the Charles University in Prague, the Media Industries and Cultural Production...
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CfP: research workshop “Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III” May 3, 2019 @ Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) Deadline: April 1, 2019.
Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and...
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CfP: postgraduate conference “Reclaiming the Screen: Addressing Overlooked Women in Film and Television” June 14, 2019 @ De Montfort University, Leicester (UK) Deadline: April 12, 2019.
Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote...
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THE GRAND TOUR OF GRAND STEREOTYPES by Toby Miller
As you all know, public broadcasting’s most important task for capitalism is developing genres and...
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CfP: “Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals” Dec 10-11, 2019 @ Massey University, Wellington (NZ) Deadline: Aug 30, 2019.
Keynote Speakers Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland Pamela Church Gibson, London...
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CfP: “Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict” Sept 6-7, 2019 @ The American University of Beirut (LB) Extended deadline: April 1, 2019.
Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict The...
Read MoreCfP: symposium “Migrant States of Exception” Nov 14-16, 2019 @ University of Wuppertal (GER) Deadline: March 30, 2019.
Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly...
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ENDEAVOURING TO INVESTIGATE NARRATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN MORSE by Richard Hewett
Pithy title, eh? Oh, well; all will be revealed. As part of my sabbatical I have recently...
Read MoreCfP: MPE and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2019 “Shaping Knowledge: encounters between word and image” June 14, 2019 @ University of Kent (UK) Deadline: March 29, 2019
This symposium will explore the interaction between word and image within media-based practice research. As creative practice has increasingly found a home within academia, and as digital technologies have made possible new...
Read MoreCfP: EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference “2019: Between a Rock and a Robot: Humans, Habitat, and Technology”. April 26-27, 2019 @ NUI Galway (IE) Deadline: March 11, 2019.
EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the Early Doctoral Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway ‘2019: Between a Rock and a Robot: Humans, Habitat, and Technology’ National University of Ireland, Galway Dates:...
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VLOGGERS ON THE DANCEFLOOR: TELEVISION CULTURE’S ONLINE REMIX AND COLLAGE by Berber Hagedoorn
Ever since Strictly Come Dancing’s inception in May 2004, settling into the fall season and...
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CfP: “Queer Fears: a one day symposium on new queer Horror film and television”, June 28, 20019 @ University of Hertfordshire (UK) Deadline: March 31, 2019.
This symposium argues that New Queer Horror projects contemporary anxieties within LGBTQ+...
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Extended CfP: GFF conference “The Romantic Fantastic” Sept 18-21, 2019 @ Freie Universität Berlin (GER) Deadline: March 15, 2019.
Romanticism again and again! In autumn 1979, Michael Ende’s novel The Neverending Story was...
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TV STUDIES FOR ALL? ON OPEN ACCESS AND PUBLISHING IN TV AND MEDIA STUDIES by Tobias Steiner
Sorry if I’m bringing this up, but something is bugging me… I don’t really know where to...
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ACTORS TALKING ABOUT ACTING ON SCREEN by Christine Geraghty
I have long been interested in writing about performance in television and film and indeed when I...
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CfP: conference “The Superhero Project: 3rd Global Meeting” Sept 20-22, 2019 @ Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen (GER) Deadline: April 15, 2019
“The Bat-Man, a mysterious and adventurous figure, fighting for righteousness and apprehending the...
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CfP: conference “Reboot | Repurpose | Recycle” Sept 12-14, 2019 @ University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon (USA). Deadline: May 15, 2019.
Keynote: Amanda Ann Klein, East Carolina University In holding this year’s conference in downtown...
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CfP: PGR conference “Moving Media, Memory, and History”. June 13, 2019 @ Loughborough University, London campus (UK) Deadline: April 1, 2019.
Venue: Loughborough London Campus 3 Lesney Avenue The Broadcast Centre Here East Queen Elizabeth...
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CfP: SFFT special issue “Global Utopian Film and TV in the Age of Dystopia”. Deadline: April 1, 2019.
Global Utopian Film and TV in the Age of Dystopia A special issue of Science Fiction Film and...
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CfP: Kinephanos issue “Beyond Netflix: Studying the diversity of practices and platforms in the era of over-the-top television”. Deadline: Feb 28, 2019.
Not unlike other media, television is undergoing major changes. The Internet, as well as the...
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BLUEY! THE GORGEOUS CARTOON THAT BROKE CATCHUP RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA by Liz Giuffre
The most exciting thing on Australian television at the moment is happening around 5.50pm each...
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HOMECOMING AND PARANOIA, IN ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES OR LESS by Douglas L. Howard
Whether it’s a plot vehicle, as in Quantum Leap, or ticking away in the background, as on 24, or...
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THE HISTORY PERPLEX IN MATT WEINER’S ‘THE ROMANOFFS’ (PART 2) by Martha P. Nochimson
“After the agony in stony places/The shouting and the crying/ Prison and Palace reverberation/of...
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