Tag: history
CfP: symposium “Different pasts, foreign countries: Remembering and recreating lost worlds in fiction, media and history” Sept 7, 2018 @ Macquarie University, Sydney (AU). Deadline: May 4, 2018.
A one-day symposium organised by The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English,...
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RINGS AROUND LONDON: TELEVISION IN 1946 by Jonathan Bignell
British television re-started after the Second World War on 7 June 1946, with programmes that...
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ADAPT Live @ the Being Human Festival, Nov 23-24, 2017 at National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Pioneering ex-BBC television crews responsible for bringing colour into our homes in the late...
Read MoreCFP: Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture: “Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV”, Deadline: July 31, 2017
The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal Mai is seeking contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai/ is a new journal founded and...
Read MoreChild Be Strange: A Symposium on Penda’s Fen
10 June 2017 10am–5pm, with a public screening at 6:20pm Venue: NFT3, BFI Southbank, London Featuring a Q&A with screenwriter David Rudkin Including contributions from: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Yvonne Salmon (Cambridge...
Read MoreSTORYWORLDS, TRANSFICTION, AND TV HISTORIES: SHERLOCK, AND THE ABOMINABLE BRIDE by Kenneth Longden
Long before the end of Christmas television viewing and schedules, broadcasters and production companies herald their new season of television viewing. It is part of that tradition where we say goodbye to the old year, and...
Read MoreSETTING THE TELEVISION SET SCENE by Sarah Arnold
I am long overdue a new television set. To my embarrassment, my television set is second hand, occasionally cuts out and sits atop an ugly prefabricated television stand that clashes with the surrounding 1950s-era furniture. I...
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