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 hope Saga doesn’t mind that I once perched on the bonnet of her precious gold Porche… **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 Conference on Friday,

CSTonline welcomes blogs on any aspect of television: conference reports, reviews, immediate responses to current debates within TV as well as short academic pieces.  As we are online there is no word limit, however, 1,000 words or under is the ideal amount for reading online. We can accommodate pictures as long as they are sent as jpg attachment indicating clearly where each picture will go within the main body of the text.

I’m the king of the world! — James Cameron on accepting the 1998 Best Director Oscar for Titanic (1997)   Nothing epitomizes the insularity, vanity, and self-regard of the entertainment industry like awards shows.

This article was originally published on The Conversation on 4 June 2018.

Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has since extensively been employed to transport and mediate history in manifold ways.