Sometimes, coincidence allows us to observe separate but related phenomena that, seen by themselves, would be nowhere near as meaningful as when compared to each other. Such a wonderful coincidence happened recently in the relatively quick succession of two major television events: the Coronation of King Charles on the 6th and Eurovision, 7 days later, on the 13th May 2023.
by Gary R. Edgerton This strike is a strike for everyone in the industry. —Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, 8 May 2023 (Jackson) 2023 is shaping up to be one of the more turbulent years in Hollywood’s storied history.
What happens when one of history’s most feared villains meets a comparative innocent looking to enter the same line of work? In many cases, this scenario is used in media to illustrate the corruption and making of monsters.
Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller (millert@fau.edu) Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by November 1 We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television
Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Steven Moffat Edited by William Rabkin This edited volume on the works of Steven Moffat will be the second book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with Minority Groups,” the term “minority” has referred to groups of individuals who receive unequal treatment and are subjected to discrimination because of physical or cultural characteristics[1]. The definition of “minority” has, particularly since the advent of intersectional scholarship[2], evolved to take into consideration the variety of ways in
Call for papers website : https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/symposium/call-for-papers In 1988, on 15 March, a day synonymous with national independence and democracy, over 10,000 Hungarians chanted Sándor Petőfi’s infamous poetic cry – ‘no more shall we be slaves’ – as they formed the largest anti-Government demonstration since the 1956 Revolution.
When Canadian period crime drama Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV 2008-2012;
The US science fiction adventure series The Time Tunnel (1966-7) is about television. It’s about the capabilities of the medium, its technologies and the experience of watching it. The series has a grandiose, excessive visual style, characterised by scale and spectacle, and it served to advertise colour television as colour sets became more affordable in the 1960s.
The BBC’s sitcom/comedy drama, Detectorists , centred around two middle-aged metal detectorists and their hobby, is not noticeably ground-breaking, cutting-edge, politically savvy, conspicuous in its social realism, culturally diverse, sexually promiscuous, obscene, coarse, or expletive-laden in its language, nor vitriolic and in-your-face with political rancour. It is gentle, good-humoured, almost somnambulist in its
“It’s impossible to watch HBO’s Chernobyl without thinking of Donald Trump,” tweeted the author Stephen King in May 2019, simultaneously offering a backhanded compliment to a television miniseries that was fast becoming a critical sensation and a withering takedown of Trump’s presidential capacities.
