A shorter version of this article was published in The Conversation on 13/01/2021 TV viewing has become more important during the pandemic, but a sense of shame still lingers around it. Even TV scholars still use the term ‘guilty pleasures’ to describe their enjoyment of a particular reality TV format or even of series which attract some of the biggest viewing audiences like Strictly Come Dancing ( Dancing with the Stars

This blog first appeared in In Media Res | A MediaCommons Project Michaela Cole may have started writing I May Destroy You (BBC One 2020-) as a means of overcoming her own sexual assault and trauma, but the by-product of this 12 part, widely acclaimed TV series, has meant numerous others are helped too.

Bear with me. I haven’t thought this one through. And I’ve still not yet worked out if I’ll be able to use the word barquentine in it or not… One of the great things about being in touch with m’colleague Hannah Cooper at CSTonline is that she will flag up things which she thinks you might well be interested in.

EuropeNow , the online journal of the Council for European Studies invites contributions for its September 2021 issue on European culture and the moving image in all its varied forms. This issue of EuropeNow seeks contributions that explore how images imagine European community as they move on all our screens from cinema, television, streaming, to gaming, vr, and beyond;

Editor: Andrew J. Ball, Harvard University Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for a forthcoming general issue. We welcome work that focuses on matters of embodiment in media arts from any of the disciplinary or methodological perspectives described below.  Research articles are typically between 6k–9k words.

Evolving global screen environments in the last decade have triggered fundamental changes to the phenomena previously understood as the “transnational,” as content creators articulate new forces that connect and at times separate people and institutions across national and cultural borders.

Dr Michael Samuel (Warwick) and Dr Louisa Mitchell (Independent Scholar) **contact email: **asiapacificscreencultures@gmail.com To the surprise of analyst expectations, at the end of 2019 Netflix recorded a record-high growth in subscribers and revenue outside of the United States, specifically in its Asia-Pacific region.

I was saddened to hear across the festive period of the death of the writer Philip Martin following a long battle with Leukemia. He was a writer whose television work – particularly his striking series Gangsters (1976-1978) – I enjoyed watching immensely and whom I was delighted to discover in correspondence and on the occasions that we met was as kind and helpful a gentleman as I could wish to encounter.

International Online Conference 25-26 March 2021 media.ameryka@gmail.com || @MediaConferen11 || #usmediaconference “The American media plays a bizarrely outsize role in American elections, occupying the place of most countries’ national election commissions. Here, the media actually assembles the results from 50 states, tabulates them and declares a victor.

Editors: J. Jesse Ramirez (University of St. Gallen) and Anna Marta Marini (Instituto Franklin–UAH)   We invite chapter proposals from scholars based in Europe whose work delves into the issues, configurations, and manifestations of the representation of Latinxs and the Latinx experience in popular culture and new media.

Scholars researching (self-identifying) women and ageing in the screen industries are invited to send chapter abstracts for an edited collection provisionally entitled Falling off a Cliff? Women, Ageing and the Screen Industries . The book will explore the gendered challenges facing women over 50 yrs. as they attempt to carve out and/or maintain a career in the screen industries, in front of and behind the camera.