The current media ecology places more emphasis than ever on the role of nonfiction media in the creation and obfuscation of “truth.” Documentary theory has probed the dialectical relationship between the documentary impulse to represent reality and the sometimes-argued impossibility of media to do just that (Barnouw 1993; Bruzzi 2000; Nichols 2001;

FP 20 Years Later: Looking Back at 9/11 International Conference October, 7-8, 2021 University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France   Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the Universities of Toulouse and Montpellier in the South of France are joining forces to organize an international interdisciplinary conference on these events.

Unmade Film and Television is a new book series with Intellect that explores unmade, unseen, and unreleased film and television from across the globe and from all time periods. The study of unmade film and television remains neglected and fragmented within scholarly discourse.

Publisher: Brill Publishers (series, European Perspectives on the United States) Working Title: The Platinum Age of American Television, 2000 – 2010 Editor: Ben Alexander Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu I am collecting chapter proposals that broadly address, The Platinum Age of American Television, 2000 – 2010.

I watch old sitcoms when I can no longer watch the news or news round ups, or even talk shows; when I feel so hopeless and helpless I just need to try and relax enough to be able to sleep and finish up today before the next one starts again.

The attentive amongst you (we know who you are) will realise that I lie to people. For money. Now, I’m not backstriking that as it is essentially true. I work as an actor and performer. I pretend for a living. I lie and you are all willing accomplices in the deceit and artifice that I create.

“They must pay you quite well.” What? “These blogs you do here. They must pay you quite well. I mean, I see you’ve done thirty of them. That would have been a full network season in the mid-Sixties.” I suppose it would. I’d never thought of it like that.

It’s marking madness right now, chaps. Staff usually have fifteen working days from assessment submission dates to get grades and feedback up on the Virtual Learning Environment, but as a result of the current situation students have had their late window trebled to twenty-one consecutive days.

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media http://www.alphavillejournal.com** ** ** CFP: Issue 24: Fostering Diversity on and off Screen An Australian Screen Production, Education &

Historical fiction film and television productions present a life that today’s viewers cannot experience, offering a unique escape.

Thinking the other week about binge watching – which, you may recall, I and my friends actually invented a few decades back – I have to admit that there were certain instances where it wasn’t actually our obsessional thirst for monsters and spaceships which turned us into televisual gluttons, consuming more than our body weight in Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982) episodes at a single sitting.