**CALL FOR PAPERS ** The group Tecmerin (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), within the Research Project “Cine y televisión en España 1986-1995: modernidad y emergencia de la cultura global” (CSO2016-78354-P), organizes the International Conference “ Cinema, TV and Popular Culture in the 1990s: Spain-Latin America ” on October 17th, 18th and 19th, 2018 (5th Tecmerin Academic Encounter). The 1990s are the beginning of a new

Call for Papers: deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th January 2018. Colour in Context Symposium, University of Bristol. Friday 23rd March 2018. Key note speaker: Professor Lynda Nead, Birkbeck. Call for Papers: Colour – its specific hues, meanings and perception – are a contentious issue in the study of film.

Circulating across Europe? Transgressive Narratives about the Past Workshop at Harvard University 28-29 August 2018 Convenors: Dr Félix Krawatzek and Dr George Soroka In recent years, scholars have increasingly come to challenge the reductionist view of a Europe conceived primarily in terms of East and West.

2017 was something of an eventful year for British actor Jodie Whittaker. When the BBC announced on the 16th of July that she would be the one to replace the incumbent Peter Capaldi as the star and titular character of Doctor Who , her public profile was elevated to heretofore unseen heights.

“A Part of Something Bigger”: Critical Approaches to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and The Avengers A Special Issue of Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association Co-Editors: Erin Giannini and Eve Bennett Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fan art Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. / The Avengers represent something of an anomaly in the Whedonverse/Mutant Enemy

The first month of the new year, as has been the case now since 2012, heralds the start of another new series of the BBC’s flagship and consistently highly rated Sunday night drama of community nursing, midwifery and medicine Call the Midwife . Promos and advance publicity for the seventh series have primed audiences for the introduction to the regularly recurring cast of characters of a nurse of colour, for the first time in its

The recent resurgence in the popularity of comics and graphic novels has been accompanied by a concurrent expansion of the wider comics field.

Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2018 **Facts: True, Alternative, Evolving ** with a special focus on Entertainment Franchises The University of Amsterdam | 27-28 September 2018 Confirmed Keynotes: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester, UK) Professor Christine Geraghty (Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Glasgow) We live in a ‘post truth’ world populated by ‘alternative facts’.

Issue Guest Editors: Claire Perkins (Monash University) and Michele Schreiber (Emory University)** ** Working in television has historically been considered ‘bread and butter’ labour for female filmmakers around the world.

June and Leon Bernicoff, a progressive Liverpool couple married for over 60 years, were never your typical reality TV stars.

Web page: https://kmitd.github.io/recoding-black-mirror/ One day workshop The WEB Conference 2018 24 April 2018, Lyon =====MOTIVATION===== Black Mirror is a British sci-fi series directed by Charlie Brooker portraying a dystopian future emanating from the wide use of digital advancements.