WARNING: The following article contains the words “Who” and “Doctor”, but not necessarily in that order.

In person ONLY The American University of Rome 13-15 June 2024 The twenty-first century has witnessed a burgeoning of non-fiction filmmaking in Italy, facilitated in part by technological developments and in part by the desire to respond to rapidly shifting social realities and changes in the natural environment.

CFP: Media Values: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025) Media industries utilize a number of different strategies to assign value to their commodities. Box office receipts have long been a benchmark of success for theatrical film releases, despite proliferating ancillary revenue streams. Audience ratings determined advertising dollars as the dominant form of evaluation in linear commercial television.

Using a distinct but, to my mind, representative episode from the series, I enjoyed drawing out the way The Last of Us engages with meanings and configurations of home. “Home,” as the first part of my video essay suggests, can constitute a safe space, sometimes a place of active retreat from danger.

This video essay was created in response to a provocation given at the Critical Studies in Television Conference, 2023: ‘What strategies do marginalised audiences, individuals and communities employ to satisfy their needs?’ The essay focuses on how trans reading as a fandom activity can enrich the storyline and characters on network and cable genre television shows in the face of cisnormative and heterosexist hegemony.

Edited by Irena Jurković, Marko Lukić and Tijana Parezanović Urban myths and legends continuously serve as a source of fascination and creative inspiration in anglophone cultures, especially in the context of horror genre, within which they have a specific way of articulating collective fears and fascination with the unknown.

The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana (UL FDV), and the Slovene Communication Association will host the 10th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 23 to 27 September 2024.

This full-day preconference will provide a space for those studying audiences through interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and other human-based qualitative approaches to share both findings and methodological tips and interrogations. Excited advertising rhetoric tells us that everything has changed, and certainly at industrial and textual levels, much has already been done and said to chart the shifting landscape.

The two-day conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity” invites scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines to submit their papers and join us in exploring the complex and multifaceted realm of non-fictional representations of atrocity.

I began learning about and making video essays in June 2023, a few months after I started learning how to play the harp. It strikes me that both endeavors require a certain amount of learning and un-learning: learning a new physicality and new technical skills, and un-learning assumptions about what makes a good finished product. Both the creation of video essays and playing the harp require a literal re-positioning of the body.

A few Fridays back, my wife and I had a joyous day out in Cambridge.