WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM ORGANISING THE CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION CONFERENCE by Elke Weissmann
It’s first week of teaching, two and a half weeks after the conference, and an element of the glow...
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MY SUMMER OF LOVE…..ISLAND by Nektaria McWilliams
The Royal Wedding kick-started, but by no means overshadowed the long, hot, English summer of...
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SKY: THE MURDOCHS EXIT… NOT WITH A BANG BUT WITH A WHIMPER by John Ellis
Sky TV has been sold to the US giant Comcast, a virtual unknown in the UK market. The Murdoch...
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CfP: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 85 “Bad Objects”. Deadline: Jan 25, 2019.
The Velvet Light Trap is proud to present the CFP for its 85th issue: Bad Objects! The concept of...
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Call for abstracts: edited collection “Food and Cooking on Early European Television”. Deadline: Oct 26, 2018.
Call for Abstracts: Food and Cooking on Early European Television Food has been part of television...
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SOCIAL MEDIA CASTING: THE ULTIMATE DEMOCRATISATION OF TV? by Hayley Sarian, Peri Bradley and Richard Berger
Whether an actor playing a role or a contributor representing themselves, no one simply walks onto...
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A CAREER IN POPULAR FACTUAL TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM EDWARDS (PART TWO) by Christopher Hogg
In the second part of this interview with television producer Tom Edwards, the focus shifts from...
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CfP: conference “TRANSITIONS 8 – new directions in comics studies 2018” Nov 10, 2018 @ Birkbeck, University of London (UK). Deadline: Aug 24, 2018.
CALL FOR PAPERS: TRANSITIONS 8 –new directions in comics studies 2018 BIRKBECK COLLEGE LONDON...
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CfP: special issue of Convergence “Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies”. Deadline: Dec 01, 2018.
Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue...
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Call for chapters “This Country: UK comedy cultures”. Deadline: Aug 20, 2018.
Call for Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’ Extended deadline: 20th August 2018. ...
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CfP: symposium “Paranoia in the Americas: American Anxieties in a Transnational Context”. Nov 24, 2018 @ University College Cork (IE). Deadline: August 03, 2018.
University College Cork, 24 November 2018 From the earliest moments of its existence, the...
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A CAREER IN POPULAR FACTUAL TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM EDWARDS (PART ONE) by Christopher Hogg
Tom Edwards has worked for over twenty years in the British television industry, specialising in...
Read MoreCfP: conference “Understanding the social in a digital age”. Jan 08, 2019 @ University of East Anglia (UK). Deadline: Aug 28, 2018.
Call for papers for free one day conference: Understanding the social in a digital age: An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure...
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CfP: workshop “Queerness and Television in the 21st Century”. Nov 22-24, 2018 @ Turku (FIN) Deadline: Aug 31, 2018.
This workshop call for papers invites presentation proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of...
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Call for chapters: “Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial television”. Deadline (full papers): Jan 15, 2019.
Call for papers for collected volume Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial...
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CfP: The Comic Grid special collection “Creating Comics, Creative Comics”. Deadline: Oct 1, 2018.
CFP – Special Collection: Creating Comics, Creative Comics Special Collection Editors: Brian...
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CfP: Comics Forum 2018 “Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship”. Sept 20-21, 2018 @ Leeds Central Library (UK). Deadline: July 23, 2018.
Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship Leeds Central Library 20-21 September Call for Papers...
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CfP: 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication: Media and Populism. Jan 15-19, 2019 @ Lisbon (POR). Deadline: July 31, 2018.
The 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication will take a comparative and global...
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NOSTALGIA FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD by Andrew J. Salvati
“Well, we all need a little love in our lives.” So replied the actor-musician François Clemmons,...
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MAKING JAZZ 1080: TELEVISION PRODUCTION AS PROCESS by Nicolas Pillai
This blog post was originally published by the AHRC. After The Fast Show, how does one...
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Call for chapters: “Superheroes and Disability: Unmasking Ableism in the Media”. Deadline: July 27, 2018.
Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments...
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Call for chapters: Quieting the Madness: Entertainment Media’s Shift into More Accurate Depictions of Mental Illness. Deadline: Sept 1, 2018.
Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of...
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CfP: Media Fields Journal #14: At the Edges. Deadline: Sept 28, 2018.
Call for Submissions: At the Edge Media Fields Journal University of California, Santa Barbara...
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CfP: Edited Collection “Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Costume Dramas”. Deadline: Sept 15, 2018.
There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s...
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PASTS UNKNOWN by Andrew J. Salvati
Like Proust and his madeleine, the simple act of eating in Anthony Bourdain’s television shows...
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