WATCHING ITV WHEN YOU COULDN’T GO SHOPPING by Jonathan Bignell
In the Summer of 1994, it became legal for shops to open on Sundays. Until then, the British...
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POPULISM AND EMPTY LIBERALISM IN BBC’S MOTHERFATHERSON by Danny Nicol
The British Broadcasting Corporation was established, and continues to operate, partly to fashion...
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CfP: conference “Media, Mediations and Mediators: (Re) Mediating History in the 21st Century” May 6-8, 2020 @ Autonomous University of Puebla (MEX) Deadline: July 15, 2019.
4th INTH Network Conference Call for papers The International Network for Theory of History (INTH)...
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CfP: conference “The Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces” Dec 5-7, 2019 @ University of Warsaw (PL) Extended deadline: May 1, 2019
An international conference organized by the Speculative Texts and Media Research Group, American...
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Call for chapters: “American Television in the Trump Era” Deadline: June 30, 2019.
Call for Chapters: American Television in the Trump Era Editor: Karen McNally Deadline for...
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LESS TALK, MORE ACTION: SPEEDING UP THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN NETFLIX’S BLACK SUMMER by Stella Gaynor
Fast, frenetic and a breath of fresh air from the drawn out soul searching in other zombie...
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CfP: Midwest Modern Language Association conference “Re-reading Remakes, Reboots, and Readaptations” (special section). Nov 14-17, 2019 @ Chicago, Illinois (USA). Deadline: April 20, 2019.
For the general conference cfp, see: https://luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/ For this...
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Call for chapters: “Riverdale: A Land of Contrasts”. Deadline: Aug 15, 2019
Riverdale: a comic book turned hit TV show, a comic strip turned murder mystery, a town that is...
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CfP: Interdisciplinary Conference “Embodying Fantastika”. Aug 8-10, 2019 @ Lancaster University (UK) Deadline: May 1, 2019
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside, USA) Sara Wasson (Lancaster, UK) ‘Fantastika’...
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THE LAST LEG: A BEARDY GUIDE TO THE BREXIT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN by Liz Giuffre
During this year’s season of The Last Leg the usually neat and tidy Adam Hills declared he would...
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CfP: conference “Discourses of immigration and citizenship: from Windrush to Brexit” June 27, 2019 @ De Montfort University, Leicester (UK) Deadline: May 3, 2019
The media coverage of the Brexit Referendum in 2016 focused disproportionately upon the notion...
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‘WALTER PRESENTS’, CURATING TELEVISION, AND THE POST-PRODUCTION TV EXPERIENCE by Kenneth Longden
This blog is a coming together of two papers presented firstly at the State of Play: Television...
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REVISITING ‘DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP’: DOCTOR WHO AND MESOZOIC PERFORMATIVITY by Ross Garner
Doctor Who (BBC 1963-89, 1996, 2005- ) has attracted much attention on this blog (see here, here...
Read MoreCfP: Feminist Media Studies “Independent Women: From Film to Television” Deadline: May 31, 2019.
Historically, female filmmakers’ work in television has functioned as a form of invisible labour, with television being seen as definitively distinct from cinema, the site of ‘real’ and hard-won work. However, as we move...
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ANNIHILATION: A NETFLIX ORIGINAL – NOW AVAILABLE VIA DVD, BLU-RAY AND AMAZON…? by Jonathan Wroot
So… Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) is now on DVD and Blu-ray and can be purchased on...
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DIARY OF A COMPULSIVE OVERWORKER by Elke Weissmann
Hi, my name is Elke and I am a compulsive overworker. When I say ‘compulsive’ I literally mean I...
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WHEN THE NEWSREADER LAUGHS by John Ellis
ITV News at Ten, Wednesday 26 March, 24 minutes into the bulletin: Tom Bradby, the senior...
Read MoreSEXUAL VIOLENCE ON/OFF SCREEN IN ONE TREE HILL by Dr Susan Berridge
In November 2017, Variety magazine published an open letter in which 18 women from the cast and crew of US teen drama series, One Tree Hill (The WB/CW, 2003 – 2012) accused the programme’s showrunner, Mark Schwahn, of sexual...
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CfP: SIECE conference “Public Service Media’s Online Strategies: Industry Concepts and Critical Investigations” Nov 22-23, 2019 @ National Film Archive, Prague (CZ) Deadline: June 15, 2019.
Sponsored by the Charles University in Prague, the Media Industries and Cultural Production...
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CfP: research workshop “Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III” May 3, 2019 @ Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) Deadline: April 1, 2019.
Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and...
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CfP: postgraduate conference “Reclaiming the Screen: Addressing Overlooked Women in Film and Television” June 14, 2019 @ De Montfort University, Leicester (UK) Deadline: April 12, 2019.
Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote...
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THE GRAND TOUR OF GRAND STEREOTYPES by Toby Miller
As you all know, public broadcasting’s most important task for capitalism is developing genres and...
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CfP: “Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals” Dec 10-11, 2019 @ Massey University, Wellington (NZ) Deadline: Aug 30, 2019.
Keynote Speakers Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland Pamela Church Gibson, London...
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CfP: “Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict” Sept 6-7, 2019 @ The American University of Beirut (LB) Extended deadline: April 1, 2019.
Archiving Dissent: Post-2011 Arab Imagery, Memory and Vernacular Representations of Conflict The...
Read MoreCfP: symposium “Migrant States of Exception” Nov 14-16, 2019 @ University of Wuppertal (GER) Deadline: March 30, 2019.
Migrant states of exception proliferate and intensify across the world. While processes of globalization have fostered movement and enhanced connectivity on a hitherto unprecedented scale, they have also brought the highly...
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