
Tom Edwards has worked for over twenty years in the British television industry, specialising in popular factual and factual entertainment formats.
Tom Edwards has worked for over twenty years in the British television industry, specialising in popular factual and factual entertainment formats.
Call for papers for free one day conference: Understanding the social in a digital age: An interdisciplinary conference on media, technology, and the social The pervasiveness of social media has led to both the rise and erasure of ‘the social’. The social is increasingly evasive, at once found everywhere and nowhere.
This workshop call for papers invites presentation proposals pertaining to any aspect(s) of queerness in contemporary television during the period from 2000 to the present. Topics pertaining to cultural and/or television studies at the intersection of gender/sexuality studies and/or queer theory are invited from scholars, educators, and students of various levels and disciplines.
Call for papers for collected volume Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial television As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age” of television, the accent has increasingly been placed on the excess inherent in the form, the temptation to “binge-watch” a single fiction over several hours, or the proliferation of narratives and storylines in American television’s “endless present” (which, unlike its British
CFP – Special Collection: Creating Comics, Creative Comics Special Collection Editors: Brian Fagence (University of South Wales) and Geraint D’Arcy (University of South Wales) with editorial support from The Comics Grid´s editorial team, led by Kathleen Dunley, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins Deadline for submissions: 1st October 2018 The First USW Cardiff: Comics Symposium (1st […]
Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship Leeds Central Library 20-21 September Call for Papers Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018. Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series.
The 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication will take a comparative and global approach to the study of media and populism across time.
“Well, we all need a little love in our lives.” So replied the actor-musician François Clemmons, who for 25 years played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Family Communications, 1968-2001), when he was asked recently why he thought it was that the new documentary about his friend Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor (Tremolo, […]
This blog post was originally published by the AHRC. After The Fast Show, how does one present jazz on television?
Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy.
Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of essays that examine positive, healthy, and accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media.