CAREERING TO DISASTER? A BOOK REVIEWER COMMENTS ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING by Christine Geraghty
A few months ago, I was holding a book that I was going to review. I noted with a start the sheer...
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I’M SORRY, I HAVEN’T A CLUEDO by Richard Hewett
In his book Seeing Things (2000), John Ellis hailed the emergent multi-platform environment of the...
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CfP: conference “Sound on Screen I” June 17-18, 2021 @ online. EXTENDED deadline: March 21, 2021.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to...
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COVID-19 AND SOAP OPERA BY WILL STANFORD ABBISS
This blog is adapted from a paper delivered at the 2020 Dial S for Screen Studies conference,...
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CfP: conference “The Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting”. Sept 10-12, 2021 @ Die Wolfsburg, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr (GER). Deadline: April 19, 2021.
The Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting Friday 10th to Sunday 12th September 2021 Die Wolfsburg,...
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CfP: 26th Annual SERCIA Conference “Cosmopolitan Aspirations in English-Speaking Cinema and Television”. Sept 8-10, 2021 @ Universidad de Zaragoza (ESP). Deadline: April 9, 2021
Given the uncertainty of the current context, our intention is to hold a hybrid conference...
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CfP: Contemporary Directors Symposium “Steve McQueen: ‘I want the burden'”. Sept 24, 2021 @ online. Deadline: April 20, 2021.
Call for proposals: Steve McQueen: “I want the burden”. 14th Annual Contemporary Directors...
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CfP: conference “Algorithms in Film, Television and Sound Cultures: New Ways of Knowing and Storytelling” April 29-30, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 15, 2021.
Organized by: Istanbul Bilgi University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Film and...
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CfP: 2021 ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School. Sept 20-24, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 23, 2021.
We are happy to invite you to participate in the ECREA European Media and Communication Doctoral...
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CfP: PopMeC conference “50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture”. Deadlines: March 7 – April 8, 2021.
Confirmed keynote scholars: Enrique Ajuria Ibarra, Xavier Aldana Reyes, Kyle Bishop, Kevin...
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CfP: EJES special issue “Going Viral: Chronotopes of Disaster in Film and Visual Media”. Deadline: March 10, 2021.
In her seminal text Illness as Metaphor (1978), Susan Sontag approaches the discourses around...
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SUBURBAN SUPERHEROES: UTOPIA AND TRAUMA IN WANDAVISION by Jack Black
In Marvel Studios’ WandaVision, we are transported to a familiar television location: suburbia –...
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‘NANETTFLIX’: HANNAH GADSBY, THE FEMINIST POLITICS OF TRAUMA AND THE NETFLIXIFICATION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE by Jilly Boyce Kay
In June 2018, a stand-up comedy show called Nanette dropped on Netflix. Written and performed by...
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CfP: edited collection “Difficult Death: Challenging Cultural Representations of Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture”. Deadline (no pun intended): May 01, 2021.
You are invited to submit 300-word abstracts for the forthcoming edited collection provisionally...
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CfP: JICMS special issue “Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime Drama”. Deadline: April 30, 2021.
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Giallo! The Long History of Italian Television Crime...
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A VISIT TO THE REPAIR SHOP by Jaded Academic
[Cue Bill Paterson’s silkily smooth voiceover] Today, The Repair Shop is visited by Jaded...
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WHAT FUTURE FOR IRISH PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION?: RTÉ TELEVISION AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADAPTATION by Sarah Arnold
September 2020 saw the establishment of the Future of Media Commission in Ireland, which is tasked...
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CfP: Studies in the Fantastic special issue on Lovecraft Country. Deadline: June 1, 2021.
HBO’s recent series Lovecraft Country takes up the monsters of H. P. Lovecraft’s universe, but...
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CfP: edited collection “Contemporary Russian Documentary”. Deadline: April 15, 2021.
The past three decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of documentary film in Russia: the...
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CfP: conference “Sound On Screen I”. June 17-18, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 14, 2021.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to...
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CFP: conference “Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents, Futures”. May 11-14, 2021 @ online. Deadline: March 08, 2021.
When: May 11th – 14th 2021 Where: Online Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s...
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CfP: QSMPC special issue “Queer Representation in Contemporary Popular Television”. Deadline: March 12, 2021.
Representation of queer identities in twenty-first century popular television has undergone...
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TALK TO THE HAND! OR, WHY I WANT TO TALK TELEVISION WITH GLOBAL PLATFORM REPRESENTATIVES by Vilde Schanke Sundet
Why is it so hard to get interviews with representatives from global media platforms, and what...
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IT’S NOT A PENIS – IT’S A DILLERMAND by Thomas Enemark Lundtofte
The research project ‘Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for...
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INTERGENERATIONAL SPECTATORSHIP: DOCTOR WHO AT THE BEACH by Djoymi Baker
By any objective standards, as a Doctor Who and Star Trek fan I am a failure as a parent. It’s a...
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