“… you cannot mobilize a movement that is only and always against;

Earth Day first celebrated in the United States on April 22, 1970 by millions of people and now mobilizing citizens and communities worldwide, represented the first massive expression of public concern with the ecological sustainability of our planet, launching the modern global environmentalist movement.

One of the most fascinating techniques that I’ve acquired from my limited exploits in academia has been that of a “reading” of a single programme – arguments (not my strong point, as you know) and deductions made purely from the text under observation.

While the networks and streaming services continue to appeal to our cultural obsession with the past—from Watchmen and El Camino to the recent restart of Mad About You —I’m still thinking about that return to Deadwood from last spring, as a test case, perhaps, for all of this televisual nostalgia and its impact on us as viewers.

The HBO drama, Watchmen , is part of an ever-growing canon of comic books adapted for TV. Taking place 34 years after its print publication, the TV series refocuses the comic’s deconstruction of Cold War anxieties by exploring ongoing racial tensions in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The narrative centres on the rise of a white supremacist group, which has waged war on the Tulsa police.

The New Year should be a time for resolutions where we wipe the slate of history clean and attempt to be that little bit better than we were during the last twelve months. And looking at the other CSTonline contributions during December, I would hope that one of my resolutions for 2020 would be that I’d write something a bit more meaningful for CSTonline rather than spend another year setting new levels of wrongness.

Call for Abstracts Global Screen Worlds: An International Workshop SOAS University of London, UK September 2021   “Comparative film studies…must necessarily proceed by way of a collaboration between intellectuals from different geo-historical formations.

26^th ^Annual SERCIA Conference Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain September 2-4, 2020 It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”. Alluring as the phrase may sound to our 21st century ears, when uttered by Diogenes, it was an invitation to be a social outsider: the allegiance to humanity as a whole implied becoming

Editors: Whitney Hardin, Kettering University & Julia Kiernan, Kettering University Historically, few nuanced depictions of mental health have existed in popular media.

Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary symposium at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to explore Murder and True Crime in the Media. The one-day conference is on Friday 29 ^th May 2020. Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Sarah Moore, author of Crime and the Media (2014, Palgrave Macmillan)

Conference Dates: 29-30 June 2020 | Conference Location: Canterbury, UK. University of Kent Abstracts: 10th Feb 2020 (Round One) Abstract Submission Form   Keynote: Professor, Dr. Richard Koeck. Chair, Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of Liverpool;