Calls for Chapter Proposals: Transmedia Storytelling in Asia and Pacific Region.

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Formerly International Journal of Digital Television) Special Issue 10.3 (Autumn 2019): ‘Interfacing public communications in the digital economy’ Guest edited by Michael Klontzas (University of Huddersfield) and Maria Sourbati (University of Brighton) Deadline for proposals : 30 November 2018 Public organizations tasked with the delivery of universal

The BBC’s audience-pulling Bodyguard (2018) ended with a twist which changed the status and behaviour of the Muslim woman with whom it had started.

For several years, I have watched the development of film and television education in Europe. I have looked at it from different angles, either as a scholar, a researcher or an employer of graduates from different schools.

First things first: what is comfort TV? Well, the etymology of comfort presents a useful starting point. Comfort is about consolation, support and giving strength. Applied to television, comfort refers to those programmes or viewing routines that help to strengthen the position and resilience of the viewer in daily life.

Central character Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) has left The Walking Dead , and no, he wasn’t killed by a horrific zombie maul, or in a protracted scene of human to human torment. Instead he left via a succession of in-episode accidents, before a last hurrah of heroism that will cement his position as leader-most-worthy, according to ‘his people’ anyway.

Back to the Future: Telling and Taming Anticipatory Media Visions and Technologies Special Issue of “Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies” Guest-editors: Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen, Germany), Anne Kaun (Södertörn University, Sweden), and Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen, Germany) Digital media, networked services, and aggregate data are beacons

I thought this week would be a good week to finally talk about Charmed (The WB, 1998-2006, The CW, since 2018). It was Halloween, and part of my rituals of the day include watching the third season episode ‘All Halliwell’s Eve’ which imagines Halloween as ‘the witches’ holiday’, i.e. the day of the year when women’s power is celebrated.

Edited by Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer Co-editors Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer invite proposals or completed, previously unpublished essays for a scholarly anthology on the representation of trauma, memory, and disability in the works of Joss Whedon.

Anthology Gothic horror series American Horror Story (henceforth AHS) has, since its inception, appropriated and paid nostalgic homage to a number of horror texts drawn both from TV and cinema.

I recently retired after more than 30 years of teaching. Much of those thirty years were spent teaching about television, both making TV and theorising about it.  For the last decade I was very much a TV studies person.