CREATING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH BINIAM BIZUNEH by Stefania Marghitu
This interview has been edited for clarity and length. For the full interview:...
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‘BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH’ AND ‘THE AFFAIR’ OF RE-NARRATION IN (GENDERED TV) TASTE CULTURES by Matt Hills
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch arrived just after Christmas (December 28th 2018), billed as a “Netflix...
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REPURPOSING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN by Gary R. Edgerton
I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life. I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never...
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IN SCHMEXIT WONDERLAND: A MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AN EU27 HIGHER EDUCATION (AND NHS AND SOCIAL WORK) WORKER by Elke Weissmann
Apologies for not sending you a Christmas card this year. So, let me do it via this blog; a nice...
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WARS AND THEIR AFTERMATH… by Pat Holland
Anyone who’s interested in documentary – whether on TV, cinema or online – must inevitably face...
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CfP: symposium “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”. July 18-20, 2019 @ Notre Dame London Global Gateway, London (UK). Deadline: Feb 1, 2019.
Call for Papers: “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”, 18-20 July 2019 Location Notre...
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CfP: conference “Screening violence: affect, responsibility, accountability”. April 4-5, 2019 @ The Storey, Lancaster (UK). Deadline: Feb 8, 2019.
“… these violent delights have violent ends” Contemporary screen violence is inextricable from...
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CfP: The 4th Vampire Academic Conference: “Hammer, Highgate And The Vampyre”, July 10-13, 2019 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London (UK). Deadline: May 3, 2019.
The 4thVampire Academic Conference Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London 10th-13thJuly 2019 ...
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BETWEEN PROGRAMME POLICY AND PRACTICE: GENDER, DIVERSITY AND THE CASE OF RTÉ’S CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS SHOW, THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW by Sarah Arnold
RTÉ recognises that it is in the privileged position of reflecting and shaping our understanding...
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“TIS THE SEASON TO BE BINGEING…”: FESTIVE TELEVISION AND THE THEMED RELEASE by JP Kelly
With the Christmas period well and truly upon us, it seems only fitting to consider the...
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PROBLEMS OF TELEVISUAL AUTHORSHIP by Max Sexton
This second blog offers some thoughts on how aesthetic complexity in drama has been developed for...
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CfP: edited volume “Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases & Models”. Deadline: Feb 25, 2019.
We invite abstracts for an edited collection investigating the theoretical, empirical and...
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CfP: PhD Symposium 2019: “Disruption, Transition and Transformation”. March 29, 2019 @ London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Deadline: Jan 15, 2019.
A transdisciplinary early-career research Symposium hosted by the LSE Department of Media and...
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CfP: conference “Folk Horror in the 21st century”, Sept 5-6, 2019 @ Falmouth University (UK). Deadline: April 1, 2019.
Folk Horror in the 21st Century, is a two-day conference to be hosted by Falmouth University (UK)...
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CfP: 27th IAMHIST conference on “Power and the Media”. July 16-19, 2019 @ Northumbria University (UK). Deadline: Jan 14, 2019.
XXVII IAMHIST Conference POWER AND THE MEDIA (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16-19...
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CfP: International Symposium “Media Mixing”. Mar 14, 2019 @ Lund University (SWE). Deadline: Dec 11, 2018.
Department of Communication and Media | March 14th 2019 | Organisers: Annette Hill and Magnus...
Read MoreCfP: journal NECSUS Autumn 2019_#Gesture. Deadline: Jan 15, 2019.
NECSUS Autumn 2019_#Gesture Guest editor: Miriam de Rosa (Coventry University) A visible action working as utterance, according to Giorgio Agamben gesture is ‘the exhibition of mediality’. It unveils a process and crystallises a...
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TV HORROR ACCORDING TO NETFLIX: HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, STRANGER THINGS AND HEMLOCK GROVE by Stella Gaynor
With Haunting of Hill House plugging the hole left by Stranger Things this Halloween[1], I started...
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IF STUFF WERE SCOTTISH OR WHERE HUMOURLESS FEMINISTS WITH CLINICAL DEPRESSION GET THEIR LAUGHS by Lorna Jowett
‘Alright, it’s me Joyce Byers fae Stranger Things. Everybody calls me big Jo-B.’ Imagine a...
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CfA: Filmicon special issue “Introduction to Greek Television Studies: (Re)Reading Greek Television Fiction since 1989”. Deadline: Jan 20, 2019.
In December 2016, in an international conference entitled “50 years of Greek Television” that took...
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TRAPPED BY THE HOUSE, THE MONOLOGUES, AND THE SCENES, AND A NEAT ENDING: IS HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE TRAPPED IN ITS ONE SEASON? by Stella Gaynor
Netflix launched their newest drama Haunting of Hill House on 12th October, just in time for...
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CfP: conference “Herstory Re-Imagined: Women’s Lives in Biographical Fiction and Film” Dec 16-17, 2019 @ King’s College London (UK). Deadline: June 21, 2019.
16-17 December 2019, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London, UK Convenors: Julia...
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CfP: anthology “Very Special Episodes: Event Television and Social Change”. Deadline: Dec 10, 2018.
Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Phil Scepanski Abstracts/Proposals (300 words) due December 10th....
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CfP: edited collection “Familial Influences on Superheroes”. Deadline: April 30, 2019
The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes, will examine the role that the family...
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GENDER, CLASS, AND FAMILY TRANSFORMATION IN BBC ONE’S ‘EAT WELL FOR LESS’ by Katrina-Louise Moseley
The BBC television programme Eat Well for Less, now entering its sixth round of production, first...
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