CfP: Feminist Media Studies, Commentary and Criticism section: “Feminism, Media and the 1990s”. Deadline: Nov 15, 2017.
The editors of Feminist Media Studies’ Commentary and Criticism section invite essay contributions...
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CfP: VIEW Journal “Using Television’s Material Heritage”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
The medium of television is responsible for a huge accumulation of redundant objects: old TV sets...
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CfP: 11th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference “Writing for cinema. Writing for TV”. Sept 13-15, 2018 @ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy). Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
The 11th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by...
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OF BLACK MIRRORS AND ELECTRIC DREAMS: THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE TELEVISION ANTHOLOGY SERIES by Kenneth Longden
This latest offering to CST has partly been inspired by my recent research and planning for a...
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CfP: Conference “Global Mediatization Research and Technology” Apr 19-21, 2018 @Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Deadline: Nov 15, 2017.
Digital embeddedness (Markham, 2017) is increasingly shaping how we experience our social lives....
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CfP: InVisible Culture, Issue 29: “Beyond Love”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
For its twenty-ninth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites...
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Call for Chapters: Locating Imagination. Popular Culture, Tourism & Belonging. Deadline: Nov 20, 2017.
In the wake of a successful multidisciplinary and international conference on the intersections...
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WHAT DOES TELEVISION WANT? ON AFFECT AND PARTICIPATION by David Levente Palatinus
In her most recent blog, Elke Weissmann pointed out a peculiar characteristic of her own...
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IN DEFENCE OF CHEAP, CHEAP, CHEAP: THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF WORKING CLASS NOSTALGIA by Ross Garner
N.B. Before reading this blog it is worth stating that my cultish sensibilities frequently draw me...
Read MoreMY SEXUAL HARRASSMENT ESSAY – #METOO? by Toby Miller
The current controversies swirling around Hollywood in particular are a reminder, if any were needed, of just how damaging the use of sex through and as power can be, by intimidating those exposed to its horrors. Even if we...
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CONFERENCE REPORT: GAME OF THRONES, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, 6-7 SEPTEMBER, 2017 by Gill Jamieson
‘Winter is coming’, ‘Valar Morghulis’ and ‘You know nothing Jon Snow’ are widely-known expressions...
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CONFERENCE REPORT: TRANS TV AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, SCHOOL OF MEDIA, ARTS AND DESIGN, 13-15 SEPTEMBER, 2017 by Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
At most screen and media studies conferences television scholarship is too often relegated to a...
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THE SHOCK OF THE OLD – REDISCOVERING THE MONOCLED MUTINEER LAST SUNDAY by Tom Nicholls
Last Sunday, faced with a disappointing episode of Philip K.Dick’s Electric Dreams (Sony Pictures...
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CfP: Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences: ‘The representation of death in modern society’. Deadline: Nov 30, 2017.
Funes. Journal of Narratives and Social Sciences Directors: Stefano Bory, Gianfranco Pecchinenda...
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CfP: International Conference ‘Gender Differentiation in Media Industries’ @ The Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, June 14-15, 2018. Deadline: Jan 19, 2018.
In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems as environments...
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SHOULD STREAMING SERVICES BE SUBJECT TO LOCAL QUOTAS? by Liz Giuffre
Local television outlets are essential places for the development and dissemination of local...
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A CRISIS IN BBC DRAMA? OR WHY I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVED REALITY TV BY Elke Weissmann
Have you been watching Doctor Foster? Or Rellik? Or Strike? No? Me neither. Doctor Foster...
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ADVENTURES IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR… by Richard Hewett
… don’t worry; you’re still doing better than most modern undergraduates. Welcome back everyone –...
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Call for Abstracts: “Broadcasting health and disease. Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s” @Wellcome Trust, Feb 19-21, 2018. Deadline: Nov 1, 2017.
Date: 19-21 February 2018 Location: Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London, UK The conference is...
Read MoreCfP: Celebrity Studies Journal, Special Issue: “Where is the Star?”. Deadline: Nov 3, 2017.
Where is the Star?: Special Issue of Celebrity Studies Journal (eds. Martin Shingler and Lindsay Sternberg)* The Celebrity Studies Journal is planning a special issue on film stars and stardom, co-edited by Martin Shingler and...
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CfP: Slayage Special Issue “Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of Angel”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
On October 5th 1999, the first episode of Angel – the spin-off to Buffy the Vampire Slayer – aired...
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Call for Papers: “High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream: Reflections on Game of Thrones”. Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
The Canadian Review of American Studies (University of Toronto Press) is seeking papers for a...
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Call for Proposals: Two-Day Symposium Exploring Contemporary US Television and “the Literary” @Edinburgh Napier University, May 5-6, 2018. Deadline: Dec 1, 2017.
We are seeking proposals for a symposium to be hosted by the School of Arts and Creative...
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Call for chapters: “Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear”. Deadline: Sept 30, 2017.
Title: Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear Collection Editor: Dr...
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COMFORT TELLY 2: COLD FEET, THE CASE OF THE COMFORTING RESURRECTION by Tom Nicholls
Some of you may have read my previous blog on Comfort Telly, where I pondered if in the end the...
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