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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Event: Film is fabulous! A convention for film collectors, cinema lovers, and vintage television enthusiasts. Oct 29, 2023. @ Leicester (UK)
De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute is supporting an initiative...
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CfP: edited collection “Black on White on Screen”. Deadline: Oct 31, 2023.
The proposed book will consider how filmmakers of colour (predominantly, but not only Black) have...
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CfP: Feminist Media Histories, special issue on Gender, Media, and Developmentalism. Deadline: Feb 01, 2024.
CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on Gender,...
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TV DICTIONARY – BINGING/WATCHING/MAKING: ESCAPISM IN FLEABAG, FRIENDS, STRANGER THINGS, AND YELLOWJACKETS by Evelyn Kreutzer
Like many other contributors, I caught the TV Dictionary bug during the pandemic (bad pun...
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UADE IN PACE?: FARSCAPE AND PEACEKEEPERS by Melissa Beattie
The international co-production Farscape (Syfy 1999-2003; 2004) is perhaps best known for its...
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’THOUGHTFUL CHAOS’: EVALUATION AND THE BEAR’S ‘PERFECT’ TV STORYTELLING by Sarah Lahm
This blog post has been sparked by the exorbitant amount of video recommendations that YouTube has...
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GOLLY, IT’S CUCKOO! REFLECTIONS ON PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE by Andrew J. Salvati
Author’s note: Today’s Secret Word is […]. Whenever you see the word […] below, in honor of...
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TV DICTIONARY – “WHAT WAS THAT MIDDLE BIT ALL ABOUT?” ON THE GOOD LIFE, SPLIT SCREEN, AND THE INCORPORATION OF DVD EXTRAS by David Martin-Jones
Creating the video essay on The Good Life for the TV Dictionary – the entry was “see under...
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CfP: Critical Studies in Television special issue “EastEnders at 40: Production, Text & Audiences”. EXTENDED Deadline: Oct 20, 2023.
Queries about this call for papers should be directed to Rebecca Williams...
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CfP: Special Issue of Convergence “Streaming Diversity? On and off-screen diversity in an era of automated media culture”. Deadline: September 22, 2023.
Abstracts due 22 Sept 2023 Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research...
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‘I THINK ABOUT WAR … AND ROBLOX’: TRYING TO UNDERSTAND CHILDREN AND THEIR MEDIA USE ONE REPORT AT A TIME … by Eva Novrup Redvall
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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FOR[E] SHADOWING: INTERTEXTUALITY BETWEEN SUCCESSION SERIES THREE AND WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS SERIES FOUR by Melissa Beattie
Note: This blog does NOT contain spoilers for Succession series 4 (because I haven’t had time to...
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