Many years ago, whilst preparing to teach British Cinema History at LJMU, under the brilliant, but now sadly departed Nickianne Moody, i was tasked to research the history of British Music Hall. The main thrust of the module was to show how British cinema was the product, not of the theatre, but of the music hall tradition and working-class popular culture.
The popular and critical success of contemporary UK drama series including Sex Education (Netflix, 2019 -), Normal People (BBC Three/RTE One/Hulu, 2020) and I May Destroy You (BBC/HBO, 2020), all of which have been praised for their complex depictions of sexual intimacy and consent, has drawn increasing attention towards the relatively new role of the intimacy coordinator in television production.
Fear 2000: Horror Unbound (Online) Sheffield Hallam University, 10-12 September 2021 Submission Deadline: 31 May 2021 We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and 80-minute panels to be presented at the fifth Fear 2000 conference, Fear 2000: Horror Unbound.
Science Fiction and Fantasy International Conference Messengers from the Stars: Episode VI Online Conference School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon November 25-26, 2021 Nature and Overnature in SF and Fantasy Discourses Science Fiction and Fantasy are lasting fields of inquiring into today’s world. They have become privileged means to question issues of aesthetic, ethical, […]
The editors of a forthcoming collection on literature and television titled Broadcasting Beyond Adaptation: Revisiting the Television and Literature Debate invite abstract proposals for potential chapters on intersections of Māori/te reo television and literature.
<Graeme Garden 1968>DO YOU KNOW what the words starting with ‘D’ and ‘W’ written on this partially obscured file are? Fig. 1: DO YOU KNOW what the words starting with ‘D’ and ‘W’ written on this partially obscured file are? Yes – that’s right! Fig 2: Yes – that’s right.
Organisers: Izabella Wodzka, Mathis Gronau, and Brittany Eldridge (UCL) The recent experiences of global pandemic and national lockdowns have forced us to slow down and scale down, but also to deviate from our routines and to rethink our mundane activities. We have become intimately acquainted with the private space of home while simultaneously detached from the public spaces of shared communal life.
AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE NORDICS: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND RECEPTION IN A MULTI-PLATFORM ERA Call for anthology chapters Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021 Editors Pia Majbritt Jensen, associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Novrup Redvall, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Christa Lykke Christensen, associate Professor, University of
The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning.
Workshop: 100 Years of Women at the BBC Friday 7 May 2021 1pm – 5.30pm (BST), Online Co-sponsored by Critical Studies in Television and Edge Hill University Institute for Social Responsibility Characterised from early in its life as ‘Auntie’, the BBC itself has been gendered female in the cultural consciousness.
The 6th edition of the conference Narrative, Media and Cognition aims to combine narrative, as an artistic and social phenomenon, with the artistic and technical media that convey it and with the cognition that produces it and gives it meaning.