THE GOLD (BBC 2023) by Charlotte Brunsdon
‘Say what you like about South London, but it pays all our wages’ Edwyn Cooper (ep.1) Some...
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ONE STEP BEYOND (AND TWO STEPS BACK?): BEYOND PARADISE by Melissa Beattie
While generally marketed as the further adventures of a popular character, spin-offs generally...
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PATRICK’S DAY: PHASE 2 by Richard Hewett
Last week I told of my near-encounter with Patrick ‘Jean-Luc Picard’ Stewart of Star Trek: The...
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THE ‘WAR’ OUTSIDE THE WINDOW by Melissa Beattie
Written on 12 April, 2023 This…is going to be a very different sort of blog. I’m...
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PATRICK’S DAY: PHASE 1 by Richard Hewett
If you have never watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, you might be better off skipping this...
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CfP: symposium “The War Face on Screen”. July 6, 2023 @ University of Leeds (UK). Deadline: May 2, 2023.
CFP: The War Face on Screen, a one-day symposium, Thursday 6th July 2023, University of Leeds ...
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CfP: workshop “Streaming Wars: the New Hispanic TV series”, June 30, 2023 @ online. Deadline: April 30, 2023
Keynote Speakers Concepción Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) Streaming Wars: The...
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A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION? AMBASSADORS REVISITED by Melissa Beattie
In a recent CST blog, I discussed some of the negative issues surrounding the use of a fictitious...
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CfP: conference “Reaching Young Audiences: Investigating media content for children and young people in a multi-platform era”. November 9-10, 2023 @ University of Copenhagen (DEN). Deadline: May 15, 2023.
Dates: 9-10 November 2023 Place: University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Communication, Denmark....
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CfP: SERCIA conference “Questioning the margins of English-speaking films and TV series”. September 6-8, 2023 @ Université Paris 13 (FR). Deadline: April 28, 2023.
Organized by Céline Murillo (Université Paris 13), Mehdi Achouche (Université Paris 13),...
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CfP: conference “IN THE WORKS. Makings and Unmakings of the Video Essay”. November 2-4, 2023 @ Lucerne School of Art and Design (CH). Deadline: April 20, 2023.
Website: https://blog.hslu.ch/videoessay/2023-conference-open-call/ One of the first academic...
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IS THERE A POSTCOLONIALIST IN THE HOUSE? by Melissa Beattie
By dint of their genre, medical series often deal with matters of morality and ethics. This in...
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Call for Chapters: edited collection “Radical Children’s Film and Television”. Deadline: April 30, 2023
Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University) Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023 I am...
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Call for chapters: edited collection “Revising Alice”. Deadline: April 17, 2023.
Editors: Professor Anna Backman Rogers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Dr Houman Sadri,...
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CfP: conference “21st Century Magic and Spirituality in Media and Culture”. June 30, 2023 @ Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). Deadline: April 26, 2023.
The 21st century has seen an exponential rise of what can be loosely defined as spiritual media...
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY VS. THE TRUMP AGENDA by Teresa Forde
The Trump administration prompted a space for dissent, critique and counter positioning within the...
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‘THE QUEEN MIGHT BE LISTENING!’: SLINGS & ARROWS AND CANADIAN SHAKESPEARE by Melissa Beattie
The very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-1974) asked ‘Whither Canada?’,...
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CfP: ECREA Television Section Conference 2023 “Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods”. Oct 25-27, 2023 @ Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (GER). Deadline: May 1, 2023.
Televisuality, as theorised by John T. Caldwell in 1995, allows for a holistic view on the unique...
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SWITCHED ON TO ITVX by Christine Geraghty
In my first CST blog, over 10 years ago now, I confessed that I was a late adopter of television...
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CfP: conference “Sound on Screen “. July 5-6, 2023 @ Oxford Brookes University (UK) and hybrid. Deadline: March 24, 2023.
SOUND ON SCREEN II HYBRID CONFERENCE, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, 5th-6th JULY 2023 CALL FOR...
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Event: Disney at 100 Years: Everlasting Entertainment and a Spellbinding Future. June 26-30, 2023 @ online.
Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023: The Disney, Culture and Society’s First...
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CfP: edited collection ‘Personified Body Parts and Organs with a Mind of Their Own in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture’. Deadline: April 20, 2023.
This collection initially examines cinematic, televisual, literary, visual and poetic...
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CfP: “Screening Spaces of Youth” Symposium, June 02, 2023 @ online. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium Online (Zoom), 2 June 2023 “Screening Spaces of...
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ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE: SAMUEL BECKETT FROM CHANNEL 4 TO YOUTUBE by Jonathan Bignell
I have been writing about Samuel Beckett’s film and television plays for over 20 years, but until...
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Call for chapters: edited collection “A Force of Habit: Nuns in Popular Culture”. Deadline: March 31, 2023.
Nuns have a presence in cinema as longstanding as the medium itself, including the 1922 horror...
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