TV VIEWING HAS SURGED DURING LOCKDOWN, BUT HAS BECOME TOO TECHNICAL FOR SOME – NEW RESEARCH by Catherine Johnson
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WATCHING TELEVISION IN A PANDEMIC by Lynne Joyrich
This piece was originally published in Los Angeles Review of Books, April 8, 2020. During this...
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CfP: Itinerari special issue “Perspectives in the Anthropocene. Climate – Conflict – Migration”. EXTENDED Deadline: July 15, 2020.
Editors David L. Palatinus (University of Ruzomberok) Stefania Achella (University of...
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DEVS AND THE PARALLAX ENDING by Jack Black
Alex Garland’s recent miniseries, Devs (20th Television, 2020), takes on many similar themes which...
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CfP: edited collection “CFP: Comics in the Time of COVID-19”. Deadline: May 31, 2020.
An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling related to the COVID-19 global...
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CIRCUS À LA KING by Andrew J. Salvati
Good true crime is like an onion: each layer, each episode, revealing more of the complexity of...
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THE FIRST SCREEN BOND: CASINO ROYALE ON TV IN 1954 by Jonathan Bignell
The first screen portrayal of Ian Fleming’s James Bond was not Sean Connery in Dr No (1962), but...
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CfP: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, special issue “Nostalgia and Popular Culture”. Deadline: May 10, 2020.
Journal: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Special Issue: Nostalgia and Popular Culture...
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CfP: ECREA 2020 pre-conference “Disinformation studies: perspectives to an emerging research field”. Oct 02, 2020 @ University of Minho (POR). Deadline: May 15, 2020.
Date of pre-conference: 2 October 2020 Call for papers deadline: 15 May 2020 Notificiation: 1 June...
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Call for chapters: edited collection “Power, Media, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse”. Deadline: May 20, 2020.
Edited by Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University, UK...
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WHY YOU SHOULD BE WATCHING ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ DURING THE PANDEMIC by Victoria McCollum
You find yourself amidst the worst public health crisis for a generation. The muddled thinking at...
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WHAT DO WE NEED IN A CRISIS? BROADCAST TV! by John Ellis
The Covid-19 lockdown means that there’s a lot more TV viewing going on. Those TV scholars who are...
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GOODIES DOWN UNDER by Marcus Harmes
The television scholar Alan McKee once asked the rhetorical question ‘is Doctor Who Australian?’,...
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CfP: Genre en séries: cinéma, télévision, médias special issue on “Gender and comedy: stars, performances, characters”. Deadline: May 31, 2020.
Issue editors: Gwénaëlle Le Gras (Bordeaux Montaigne) and Jules Sandeau (Paul Valéry Montpellier...
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CfP: VIEW Journal on “Race and Europe’s TV Histories”. Deadline: June 01, 2020.
Discussions of race have been central to television studies in the United States for decades. At...
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FAMILY BINGE-WATCHING IN TIMES OF CORONA
While Danish schools have been closed since mid-March and all family members are staying at home...
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WHAT ARE WE WATCHING? by John Ritchie
Seeing the request to let us know what we are watching during the REMAIN INDOORS 2020 marathon...
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SUCCUMBING TO NETFLIX IN MEXICO by Toby Miller
Here in Mexico City, the lockdowns that readers are experiencing are not new. Chilang@s had one...
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CfP: edited collection “Sexpots and Saints: Essays on the Media History of Nurses and Nursing”. Deadline: May 30, 2020.
The intersection between nurses and popular media is longstanding. Florence Nightingale died in...
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CfP: edited collection “Screening Queer Horror”. Deadline: June 01, 2020.
2019 was a watershed moment for queer horror visibility, particularly in cinema: from Shudder’s...
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CfP: special issue “Young People Encountering Mediated Death: Traumatic Texts, Emotional Resonation and the Psychology of Death”. Deadline: May 01, 2020.
Guest Editors: Associate Professor Gareth Schott (University of Waikato), Dr Margaret Gibson...
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CfP: “Questioning the Human: Posthuman Accounts in Popular Culture”. Deadline: April 15, 2020.
Two broadly anthropocene concerns—the ‘human’ condition along with the condition of this human...
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CFP: edited collection “Streaming and Screen Culture in Asia-Pacific”. Deadline: May 31, 2020
Edited by Dr Michael Samuel and Dr Louisa Mitchell To the surprise of analyst expectations,...
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“FAMILY WATCH TOGETHER TV”: NETFLIX AND THE DARK INTERGENERATIONAL FANTASY by Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, and Diana Sandars
In 2016, Netflix committed to “doubling down on kids and families” [1] through increased child and...
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“REMAIN INDOORS!” AND OTHER LOST TELEVISION CLASSICS by Richard Berger
Like many of you, I am now stuck at home, as my University has become a shimmering new constituent...
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