Nightmare ‘24 @ The Northern School of Art: 25th April 2024 Submission Deadline: Friday 16th February 2024 CFP: “Dreams or nightmares? Madness or Sanity? I don’t know which is which” – The Representation of Mental Health in the Horror Genre The organisers invite proposals for 15-minute papers to be presented at the first Nightmare conference.
Edited by Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University) and Brady Fletcher (University of Rochester) The portmanteau “warscape” that forms the title of this edited volume suggests a complex linkage between war, often thought of in purely anthropocentric terms, and the physical environment. On one hand, warfare is inescapably shaped by the environmental contexts in which it occurs.
Montpellier, October 4, 2024 One-day symposium organized by Amandine D’Azevedo and David Roche Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Institut Universitaire de France This one-day symposium will focus on fight choreographies in films and television series.
Extended and revised call for chapters on select FX Channel original TV series are sought for an edited book collection. In a similar vein as The Essential HBO Reader (2008) , this scholarly collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.
Television and Sustainability In 2015, the UN proposed 17 Sustainable Development Goals that are meant to guide humankind towards a more equitable future on a liveable planet. They address questions of health, society, culture and the distribution of resources while also being aware of the urgency to address climate change.
August 17th 2023 and the Guardian ran an article entitled ‘How did Suits become America’s most-watched TV show of the summer?’ Good question.
Among the notable TV finales from this year, the curtain dropped on Barry , the dark dramedy that, for four seasons, absurdly examined the criminal world of hitman Barry Berkman and his bizarre attempt to give up murder for acting.
As part of my current master degree programme in media studies at the Film University Babelsberg, Germany, I had the opportunity to learn about research in television and the television industry at the conference Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods . I was particularly interested in the panel on Netflix global strategies.
As Dhoest and Mertens (2013) note, when glocalising a text, dialect and accent are key elements of that form of adaptation. Though they were referring to the Flemish version of Ugly Betty, the glocalised telenovela par excellence, accent can be used and/or recognised even outside of glocalised adaptations.
Around about mid-October, I could hear – courtesy of the world wide web – a distant wailing and gnashing of teeth but not of biblical proportions. More the odd e-mail.
A conference I could attend that I didn’t have to work at and was indeed about my topic of interest? Wow! From 25 th – 27 th October 2023 the biennial ECREA Television Section Conference, Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods was held at the Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, relating to John T. Calldwells (1995) concept of televisuality.