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.

David came in, and what you had was long-form storytelling. Characters that were nuanced, stories that were nuanced, that required your attention and required you to follow it. Nothing was wrapped up at the end of one episode or one hour. It continued. It was sort of like a novel. I think it’s a visual novel – the way he looked at it. People look at television, and you see the lead character, and you think that’s the protagonist.

Historically, media studies scholars have shied away from sports-related media texts due to a variety of perceived challenges: the sheer volume of texts (there’s always something on), their inaccessibility (the texts are ephemeral and controlled by corporate archives), the ambivalence of sports cultures (at once masculine and mainstream), and more.

Contemporary European audiovisual production – film, television as well as online videos – engages with history in a variety of ways. This conference will focus on emerging perspectives that capture ongoing developments across Europe.

The 8 ^th annual BAFTSS conference, to be held at the University of St Andrews on 16-18 April 2020, will take as its theme “Rethinking Screen Cultures”. At a time when Film, Screen and TV Studies is placing increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh objects beyond the traditional canon, this conference seeks to foreground new directions and methodologies in the discipline.

“There are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who hear the music and those who don’t.”  So says Trevor Chaplin as he places another of his beloved jazz LPs on the turntable in the concluding instalment of Alan Plater’s blissful antidote to thriller series The Beiderbecke Connection (1988). And we know he’s not just talking about jazz.

The last two years have been both luxurious and difficult. Luxurious, because the award of an AHRC ECR Research Leadership Fellowship gave me the freedom to work on a dream project. Difficult, because the slow decline and death of my father ran in parallel to that award. Sometimes – as I struggled to meet my commitments to work and family – that dream felt like a nightmare.

Nicky Morgan, the culture secretary, has announced to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that she is open to replacing the BBC license fee with a Netflix-style subscription charge.

Proposals are invited for papers at **Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television, ** a two day international conference, 16 – 17 September 2020, at De Montfort University, Leicester.   Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.

Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies We invite papers on the role of nostalgia as a structure of feeling that animates speculative, utopian, and (post)apocalyptic texts across media. Although there has been increasing critical attention to the role of memory in these genres, nostalgia is a neglected topic.

Call for Papers Special Edition of Holocaust Studies: Culture and History : ‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’ Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education.