We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington Books. This edited collection will examine how animal characters in film and television serve as protagonists, antagonists, or anti-heroes fulfilling various narrative functions.

Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. The first Console-ing Passions conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992.

So, when I started to think about this post, I initially planned on writing about Zack Snyder’s Justice League , that sweeping superhero epic that dropped on HBO Max this past March.

PART III S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.

Guest Editors: Valentina Romanzi and Bruno Walter Renato Toscano The quest to define the true essence of US identity dates back to colonial times, long before the nation itself was formally established.

Journeys Across Media: a Postgraduate Conference 15th September 2021 Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading Beyond the Pandemic – productive and situational legacies in media The potential for a successful global vaccine rollout means a possible return to pre-pandemic media practices.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that there has been a lot of anticipation about an event scheduled for this late Spring: yep, the cicadas have been hatching in the USA. Also, there’s been the Friends reunion special. Both of these events have been causing a lot of noise. For the purposes of this blog, let’s focus on the latter.

PART II S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.

19 July – 6 August 2021, Online; hosted by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline?

Space and place are crucial categories of analysis when looking at our societies and their functioning, as noted by Michel Foucault who saw a deep connection between power, social order, and space.

PART I In this first section Euryn Ogwen discusses the beginnings of S4C, and the specific meaning and genealogy of the logo, taking us up to the very first second of the new channel, Sianel Pedwar Cymru…   Dafydd Sills-Jones: Ready? Euryn Ogwen Williams: Ready.