THE COPING WORKING-CLASS: RECENT BRITISH REAL CRIME DRAMAS AND WORKING-CLASS WOMEN by Elke Weissmann
It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’,...
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A DEAD RECKONING FOR FOX NEWS by Gary R. Edgerton
Television and I grew up together. — Roger Ailes, 1995 (13) Among the sheer glut of head-spinning...
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WHAT WE LEARNT FROM SAM AND TRACEY: DOES THE NEW TWIN PEAKS DIFFER TO CONTEMPORARY ‘QUALITY TV’? by Ross Garner
N.B. This article contains SPOILERS relating to the FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE NEW SERIES OF TWIN...
Read MoreCfP: UdS American Studies Graduate Forum „Reading American TV Series: An Interdisciplinary Conference“, October 5-6, 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany
Deadline: June 15, 2017 In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 2-day American Studies Graduate Forum...
Read MoreCall for Papers: “War and Trauma in Past and Present” conference, 9-11 March 2018, Bamberg, Germany. Deadline: 29 Sept 2017
Deadline: 29 Sept 2017 The Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (BaGraLCM), in cooperation with the departments of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Bamberg, is hosting an...
Read MoreCall for Chapters: Science Fiction Beyond the Western Tradition (working title)
Call for chapters: Proposals submission deadline: 1st September 2017 Notification of acceptance: 30th September 2017 Full chapters due: 15th January 2018 Planned submission of manuscript: 1st March 2018 Overview: “Science...
Read MoreCfP: Serialised Storytelling – 2nd international conference “(Cross-)cultures, memories and values”, 30-31 Oct 2017, Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands
Serialised Storytelling organises the second international conference “Cultures, memories, values” hosted by the Hanze University of Applied Sciences of Groningen, the Netherlands. Conference date: 30th and 31st of October 2017....
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CfP: Breaking out of the Box: Critical Essays on the Cult TV Show Supernatural
“What’s in the box?” Dean Winchester asks in “The Magnificent Seven,” episode one of the third...
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Call for Essays: Apocalyptic Television (Edited Collection)
Science fiction has always indicated that it is a matter of when—not if—some kind of Apocalypse...
Read MoreCall for edited book chapters: Gender & Horror
We are inviting chapter submissions for a new edited collection focusing on gender and horror. This edited collection aims to re-examine horror in an era of remakes, reboots and re-imaginings. There have been many developments...
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BFI Media Conference 2017, 29-30 June, BFI Southbank, London, UK
The BFI Media Conference is a unique event for teachers of film and media at 16+ and in HE,...
Read MoreSpecial issue on Television Formats in IJDT
The International Journal of Digital Television has published a special issue on Television Formats.
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TELEVISION RESEARCH AT SPYING ON SPIES: A CONFERENCE REPORT by Joseph Oldham
Spying on Spies was an international conference held in London over 3-5 September 2015, organised...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: BENEDICT WONG IN MARCO POLO by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Actors of East Asian descent have traditionally not received much screen time in Anglophone...
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WHAT ACTORS DO: MERRITT WEVER IN NURSE JACKIE by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
In our last blog post, we examined the acting by a female performer in a strong ensemble cast –...
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2015 – A TV ODYSSEY by Elke Weissmann
I am on a big search – and it will be a long and protracted search – for a new meaning. Not of...
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UNLOCKING ‘THE CODE’: QUEERLY READING DEXTER by Adam C. Scales
Internalising emotions, keeping secrets from friends and family, stalking men at night, and...
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