Note: This blog post contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 3 of The Last of Us Play Using a distinct but, to my mind, representative episode from the series, I enjoyed drawing out the way The Last of Us engages with meanings and configurations of home. “Home,” as the first part of my video essay suggests, can constitute a safe space, sometimes a place of active retreat from danger.

This video essay was created in response to a provocation given at the Critical Studies in Television Conference, 2023: ‘What strategies do marginalised audiences, individuals and communities employ to satisfy their needs?’ The essay focuses on how trans reading as a fandom activity can enrich the storyline and characters on network and cable genre television shows in the face of cisnormative and heterosexist hegemony.

Edited by Irena Jurković, Marko Lukić and Tijana Parezanović Urban myths and legends continuously serve as a source of fascination and creative inspiration in anglophone cultures, especially in the context of horror genre, within which they have a specific way of articulating collective fears and fascination with the unknown.

The European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Ljubljana (UL FDV), and the Slovene Communication Association will host the 10th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 23 to 27 September 2024.

This full-day preconference will provide a space for those studying audiences through interviews, focus groups, ethnography, and other human-based qualitative approaches to share both findings and methodological tips and interrogations. Excited advertising rhetoric tells us that everything has changed, and certainly at industrial and textual levels, much has already been done and said to chart the shifting landscape.

The two-day conference on “Images, Film, and Video of Atrocity” invites scholars and researchers from diverse disciplines to submit their papers and join us in exploring the complex and multifaceted realm of non-fictional representations of atrocity.

I began learning about and making video essays in June 2023, a few months after I started learning how to play the harp. It strikes me that both endeavors require a certain amount of learning and un-learning: learning a new physicality and new technical skills, and un-learning assumptions about what makes a good finished product. Both the creation of video essays and playing the harp require a literal re-positioning of the body.

A few Fridays back, my wife and I had a joyous day out in Cambridge.

The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.

De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute is supporting an initiative to identify, safeguard and catalogue the film and TV collections of private collectors, which will be launched at an event at Leicester’s Phoenix Cinema on Sunday 29 ^th October.

The proposed book will consider how filmmakers of colour (predominantly, but not only Black) have explored white societies, cultures and practices. It will take as its case studies films and television series that treat whiteness, in all its complexities, not as an unmarked and naturalised position from which to speak, but as an object of inquiry and sustained scrutiny.