TO BE (DIS)CONTINUED?: SERIES VERSUS SERIAL TV by Richard Hewett
I struggle increasingly to explain to my students the basic difference between a television series...
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DETECT’S EUROPEAN AUDIENCE STUDY: INSIGHTS INTO THE PREFERENCES AND PASSIONS OF EUROPEAN CRIME VIEWERS by Cathrin Bengesser, Marica Spalletta, Pia Majbritt Jensen & Paola De Rosa
Crime is one of the most prevalent and most-viewed genres on our TV screens and the...
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(NOT) WORKING FROM HOME by John Ritchie
And here we are again! And I’m still waiting for the bloody phone to ring to let me know which of...
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CfP: edited collection “Superheroes: A Companion”. Deadline: Nov 30, 2021.
A new collection on superheroes is proposed for Peter Lang. As media texts show us superheroes...
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WHO CAN SAY ‘POO’?! THE CHILDREN’S MEDIA CONFERENCE IN COPENHAGEN POINTED TO MAJOR DIFFERENCES IN HOW TO THINK OF CHILDREN’S TELEVISION IN DENMARK AND THE UK by Eva Novrup Redvall
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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TELEVISION, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND FOOTBALL, ONCE MORE by Toby Miller
I’m revisiting a column from 2020 about the issues listed above, in order to keep up with recent...
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YOU’D BETTER WATCH OUT… by John Ritchie
You know this, this blogging lark for these lovely people, all began for me last year when I saw a...
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CfP: 3rd JICMS international conference “Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future”. June 16-18, 2022 @ The American University of Rome (ITA). Deadline: Dec 05, 2021.
Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future...
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CfP: conference “New Creative Praxis in Film and Television”, May 06-07, 2022 @ Istanbul Bilgy University (TK). Deadline: Dec 01, 2021.
New Creative Praxis in Film and Television planned for May 6-7, 2022 marks Istanbul Bilgi...
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CfP: edited collection “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix 2018-20)”. Deadline: Oct 31, 2021
In the world of teen drama (or YA drama, as some prefer), there are a number of ways to represent...
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THE LANGUAGE OF LASSO by Liz Giuffre
The language of Ted Lasso is popular culture. The cheesiest of music, the rommiest of Rom-Coms,...
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LET’S CELEBRATE TELEVISION – THE CST WAY! by Elke Weissmann
Wow, what a year it’s been. If, before the pandemic, people thought television was dead, now we...
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TWO-METRE TELEVISION: STYLE IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING by Christopher Holliday
Television’s involvement with a contemporary media terrain shaped by COVID-19 has been...
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EUROPEAN DIVERSITY: AN UNTAPPED OPPORTUNITY FOR FILM AND TELEVISION? by Manuel José Damásio
Inclusion is not our biggest challenge, but our greatest untapped opportunity...
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THE BBC MOVES FORWARD BY GOING BACK by Will Stanford Abbiss
This blog post has first appeared on Will Stanford Abbiss’ personal blog Reading the Visual...
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RECURRENT CHALLENGES WHEN RESEARCHING CHILDREN AND YOUNG AUDIENCES by Petar Mitric
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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CfP: special collection “Essays on Police and Policing in 21st Century Film and Television”. Deadline: Oct 15, 2021.
The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin, calls to defund the...
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CfP: EAAS conference “Wastelands”. April 06-08, 2022 @ Madrid (ESP). Extended deadline: Oct 10, 2021.
Wastelands: 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 The...
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DOES IT TASTE GOOD? CHALLENGING NOTIONS OF VALUE THROUGH THE CRITICAL AWARDS IN TELEVISION by Elke Weissmann
I have finally watched Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015). I binged it in less than a week. If you think...
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HERSTORY? THE POTENTIAL OF FEMALE-CENTRED HISTORICAL MINISERIES MADE IN GERMANY (2001-2021) by Sandra Becker and Berber Hagedoorn
“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives,...
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BALLS by Richard Hewett
Oh, football. It does rather take over, doesn’t it? As one who has oft written of his dependence...
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S4C: THE FIRST HOUR – AN INTERVIEW WITH EURYN OGWEN WILLIAMS (PART IV) by Dafydd Sills-Jones
This interview was first published in Welsh on Golwg/Gwerddon On March 15, 2021, Euryn Ogwen...
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CfP: edited volume “Animal Heroes, Villains and Others: the Narrative Functions of Strange and Familiar Creatures in Film and Television”. Deadline: July 15, 2021
We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington...
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CfP: Console-ing Passions: International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism. June 23-25, 2022 @ University of Central Florida (USA). Deadline: Oct 01, 2021.
Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking...
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CRITICAL STUDIES IN STUFF? by Douglas L. Howard
So, when I started to think about this post, I initially planned on writing about Zack Snyder’s...
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