Like Proust and his madeleine, the simple act of eating in Anthony Bourdain’s television shows usually became an occasion for memory. Whether it was over mohinga in Yangon, egusi soup in Lagos, or clams at the Jersey shore, sharing a meal with Bourdain often became a portal to the past: to one’s childhood; to memories of family and community;

Acting in British Television & Exploring Television Acting Book Launch: June 30th, 18.00 – 20.30 Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street Dr Christopher Hogg (University of Westminster) and Dr Tom Cantrell (University of York) will launch two new publications on television acting, Acting in British Television & Exploring Television Acting.

I am writing this blog during Season Two of Hulu’s TV production of The Handmaid’s Tale ; a drama about state-sanctioned oppression of sexual and gender non-conformity set in the  fictional Republic of Gilead*.*   It’s tough viewing; its promises of hope, freedom and redemption always deferred to the next episode via cliff-hangers, misdirection and plot twists.

This blog sketches out some of the ideas that account for recent TV drama’s formal strategies due to the growing complexity of television narrative.

This blog post has first been published on Filmicon.   Growing up as a child of first-generation Greek-Australian migrants had countless privileges. But being different from the dominant white demographic was something I did not look too favourably upon, at that time anyway.

CALL FOR PAPERS Global Intersections and Artistic Interconnections: Italian Cinema and Media across Times and Spaces Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies Second International Conference The American University of Rome 14-15 June 2019 Keynote Speaker Professor Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University

I’ve spoken before that I am a HUGE fan of The Bridge and especially the character of Saga Noren.  Last night, my adoration for the series went to a whole new level.

CFP:  (UPDATE) Children, Youth, and International Television Calls for submissions to a collection that critically examines programs that prominently feature children in international (i.e. non-American) television. Programs may include those targeted to children, or those programs targeted to adults but contain significant child characters.

Call for Papers *Sound Collectives: The Acoustics of the Social in American Film and Literature * An International Conference, Dec. 7-8, 2018, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the material and virtual spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices audible.

CALL FOR PAPERS: What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness 13-14 December 2018   Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) Department of Applied Linguistics / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium   Deadline for proposals: 30 JUNE 2018 Contact: whatnews@vub.be

Call for Papers and Presentations Batman in Popular Culture Conference Friday, April 12 and Saturday April, 13 2019 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA The Department of Popular Culture and the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Batman in Popular Culture […]