‘HOW’S THE ANXIETY’?: ALMOST PARADISE AND REPRESENTATION OF DISABILITY by Melissa Beattie
Sun, sea and only moderate engagement with omnipresent social problems other than those which can...
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HOW CAN WE REDEFINE TELEVISION? by Viviane Marie Winkler
‘Television is not dead’ was one of the opening statements of John T. Caldwell at the biennial...
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CfP: conference “The Good Place: Welcome, everything is fine!”. June 14, 2024 @ online. Deadline: Dec 18, 2023.
Online conference organized by Justine Breton (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CRIMEL),...
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CfP: interdisciplinary symposium “Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries”. Sept 12-13, 2024 @ Bournemouth University (UK). Deadline: Jan 29, 2024.
This symposium is organised by: Christa van Raalte, Associate Professor of Film and Television,...
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TIKTOK, MEMES AND TV: ON THE ART OF CURATING YOUR ALGORITHM AND NAVIGATING THE DATA JUNGLE by Laura Lutz
Two weeks into my MA, I attended a conference. Left to my own devices amongst what I can only...
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IN THE MIX AND UNDER COVER: DUE SOUTH, AUTHORSHIP AND GLOCALISING(?) INTERTEXTUALITY by Melissa Beattie
Nineties comedy/crime drama Due South (multiple international production partners, 1994-1998;...
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CfP: workshop “Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds and Collectives”. March 21-23, 2024 @ CSDS, Delhi (IND). Deadline: Dec 10, 2023.
In the last two decades, digital media infrastructures have spread worldwide, including the global...
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CfP: edited volume “Screen Storytelling: The Works of Sylvester Stallone”. Deadline Jan 12, 2024
This edited volume on Sylvester Stallone will be a contribution to a new series of ‘Screen...
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‘I’VE WOKEN UP!’: FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS (HBO 2007-2009) AND SUBVERTING THE ‘AMERICAN DREAM’ by Melissa Beattie
It is not uncommon for bands from outside the US to find success in ‘breaking’ the US market...
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DIVERSE TELEVISUAL WORLDS: A STUDENT’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE “GENRES” PANEL by Chiara Nouri
As a current master student at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, I’ve come to...
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THREE PERSPECTIVES ON REPRESENTATION AND DIVERSITY AT THE ECREA TELEVISION SECTION CONFERENCE by Tinett Kähler
As a first year MA student of media studies at Film University Babelsberg, I recently had the...
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Call for chapters: edited volume “Beyond Biopolitics: Visual Digital Culture and the 21st Century Disruptive Events”. Deadline: Nov 30, 2023.
The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA) and the Faculty of Visual Arts and...
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ON BEING AN INDUSTRY INSIDER by Vanessa Jackson
This blog first appeared on the Women’s Film and Television History Network – UK/Ireland website...
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SERIALISATION & SAW: RECONSIDERING THE FILM FRANCHISE AS ‘COMPLEX’ TELEVISION by Laura Minor
Like many people, I binge-watch horror films or movie franchises in the run-up to Halloween. With...
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‘ALIENS ARE NOT LIKE THAT!’: 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN AND REPRESENTATION by Melissa Beattie
The trope of aliens visiting Earth has been a science fiction staple since long before the Lumière...
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CfP: 4th JICMS international conference “Re-examining the past and envisioning the future of Italian cinema and media”. June 13-15, 2024 @ The American University of Rome (IT) Deadline: Dec 15, 2023
In person ONLY The American University of Rome 13-15 June 2024 The twenty-first century has...
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CfP: The Velvet Light Trap, issue “Media Values”. Deadline: 28 Jan 2024.
CFP: Media Values: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025) Media industries...
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TV DICTIONARY – ON THE LAST OF US, THE RECONFIGURATION OF HOMES, AND FINDING AN ENDING BEFORE THE BEGINNING by Niki Radman
Note: This blog post contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 3 of The Last of Us Using a...
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‘I’M JUST MY DADDY’S CHILD’: JUSTIFIED & TRANSGENDER READINGS OF NETWORK AND CABLE TV CHARACTERS by Sammy Holden
This video essay was created in response to a provocation given at the Critical Studies in...
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CfP: edited collection “Urban Myths and Cultural Geography of Horror”. Deadline: Nov 15, 2023.
Edited by Irena Jurković, Marko Lukić and Tijana Parezanović Urban myths and legends continuously...
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CfP: ECREA 2024 “Communication & social (dis)order”. Sept 23-27, 2024 @ University of Ljubljana (SI) Deadline: Jan 11, 2024
The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Faculty of Social...
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CfP: ICA 2024 preconference “Reviving Qualitative Audience Research for the Streaming Era”. June 19, 2024 @ Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (AU). Deadline: Dec 1, 2023
This full-day preconference will provide a space for those studying audiences through interviews,...
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CfP: conference “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity”. March 25-26, 2024 @ University of Copenhagen (DK). Deadline: Nov 30, 2023.
The two-day conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity” invites scholars and researchers...
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TV DICTIONARY – BRIDGING THE GAP by Lindsay Nelson
I began learning about and making video essays in June 2023, a few months after I started learning...
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TODAY’S TEEN DRAMAS ARE PAINTING A COLOURFUL PORTRAIT OF YOUTH by Ji Qi Lam and Caroline Maria Rynord
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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