Exchanges, in association with Dr Filippo Cervelli (SOAS) and Dr Benjamin Schaper (University of Oxford), is delighted to announce the latest opportunity to contribute to a special issue of Exchanges, combined with a workshop event. The full text of the call is available online.

The call for papers for articles for the sections “Monograph” and “Miscellaneous” for the Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico / Brumal. *Research Journal on the Fantastic *is now open. Scholars who wish to contribute to either of these two sections should send us their articles registering as authors on our web page.

Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race has shifted from a niche American reality show anomaly to an award-winning global success.

The 8th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the University of St Andrews on 16-18 April 2020, will take as its theme “Rethinking Screen Cultures”. At a time when Film, Screen and TV Studies is placing increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh objects beyond the traditional canon, this conference seeks to foreground new directions and methodologies in the discipline.

“You know what you want Andrew,” said Richard Marson to me sagely, “You want PrimeTime .” He was probably right. I mean, Richard’s brilliant. Go and buy his book The Blue Peter Diaries (2017) about his time as editor on this Big BBC Brand. Best eighteen quid we’ve spent on a book in a long time.

In this concluding post on Sam Esmail’s Mr. Robot , a critical evaluation of the series’ final scenes as well as its wider cultural, political and ideological importance will be provided. In accordance with previous posts, this analysis will draw from the work of Todd McGowan in order to provide a final precis on the significance of the gaze as used in the series.

Location: Central London (UK), more details TBC. 2020 marks 100 years since the publication of Sigmund Freud’s “Beyond the Pleasure Principle.” A turning point in Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the essay complicated the pursuit of pleasure led by the sexual instinct or libido, ushering in a second, competing desire that moves life in the opposite direction and down a path of negativity and destruction, articulated by Freud as the

https://transnationalpopculture.weebly.com/ Call for Contributions Changing minds changes lives. Popular culture has enormous discursive power which creates meaning through storytelling and performance, and can thus be used as a political tool for social change. Arts and Humanities put the human at the centre of analysis and provide a methodological framework for cultural, social and economic critique.

This conference aims to forge interdisciplinary links between those working in Television and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Gender Studies. Television and media research is changing, the rapid evolution of this medium has been theorised in terms of the technological advances that changing modes of distribution bring, its textual, narrative and aesthetic developments, and its role as a mediator of cultural identity.

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Female Detective on TV MAI: Feminism &

HORROR, CULT AND EXPLOITATION MEDIA IV: A WORKSHOP FOR PHD STUDENTS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS Northumbria University, UK, 7 May 2020