Editors Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green (School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science, Griffith University, Australia) seek contributors to an anthology whose collective analysis will be directed to the question: What can 21st century film and television tell us about the historical imagination of horror? Fredric Jameson observes pithily in The Political Unconscious (1982/2017) that ‘History is what hurts’ (88),

We are seeking proposals for chapters to complete an edited collection on morality and ethics on/through television. The essays will address TV dramas and comedies aired during the Golden Age of TV, continuing through peak and prestige TV. An editor at Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, has expressed interest in this project.

In Visible Man (1924), Béla Balázs predicted that the cinema would rescue the face from illegibility.

TELEVISING THE SOCIALIST BODY.

A special issue of Feminist Media Studies Co-edited by Jilly Boyce Kay (School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK) &

There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late C20th. In particular, the 1970s and 1980s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of our contemporary cultural landscape.

Full paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2020 “SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes two issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality.

My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked about my experiences of moving to America and setting up a new life.  Whereas Toby hadn’t quite got wired up for TV, I had, but that still didn’t stop me bemoaning the loss of familiar UKTV and bellyaching about how difficult it was to negotiate the amount of channels available to me in the US. ‘Spoilt brat’ some might say.

“Seven,” sighed the post-graduate admissions tutor in the campus corridor. This integer clearly caused unhappiness. I didn’t know if it was an irrational hatred of odds in general or primes in particular, or bad life experiences with samurai, brides or brothers. “The average number of people likely to read a postgraduate dissertation,” they added, specifying the cause of their disenchantment.

Factual television, as an academic area of interest, has become quite vogue. Not content, merely to look on from afar and research a variety of factual TV programming, some academics have decided to take part in some of the said programmes.

https://giphy.com/gifs/eurovision-reaction-crowd-1zRiIkfvn7iLk9cQO5 I think we should make more of a song and dance of it, don’t you? When I originally came across TV Studies in 1998, I don’t think much European Television Studies did yet exist. Milly Buonanno was already working on it in Italy. Lothar Mikos (here with us) in Germany. There were some scholars such as Ib Bondjeberg and Espen Ytreberg in the Scandinavian countries.