The HBO drama, Watchmen , is part of an ever-growing canon of comic books adapted for TV. Taking place 34 years after its print publication, the TV series refocuses the comic’s deconstruction of Cold War anxieties by exploring ongoing racial tensions in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The narrative centres on the rise of a white supremacist group, which has waged war on the Tulsa police.

The New Year should be a time for resolutions where we wipe the slate of history clean and attempt to be that little bit better than we were during the last twelve months. And looking at the other CSTonline contributions during December, I would hope that one of my resolutions for 2020 would be that I’d write something a bit more meaningful for CSTonline rather than spend another year setting new levels of wrongness.

Call for Abstracts Global Screen Worlds: An International Workshop SOAS University of London, UK September 2021   “Comparative film studies…must necessarily proceed by way of a collaboration between intellectuals from different geo-historical formations.

26^th ^Annual SERCIA Conference Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain September 2-4, 2020 It has become almost mandatory to start any piece on cosmopolitanism with a reference to Diogenes the Cynic (412-323 BC) and his famous claim “I am a citizen of the world”. Alluring as the phrase may sound to our 21st century ears, when uttered by Diogenes, it was an invitation to be a social outsider: the allegiance to humanity as a whole implied becoming

Editors: Whitney Hardin, Kettering University & Julia Kiernan, Kettering University Historically, few nuanced depictions of mental health have existed in popular media.

Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary symposium at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, to explore Murder and True Crime in the Media. The one-day conference is on Friday 29 ^th May 2020. Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Sarah Moore, author of Crime and the Media (2014, Palgrave Macmillan)

Conference Dates: 29-30 June 2020 | Conference Location: Canterbury, UK. University of Kent Abstracts: 10th Feb 2020 (Round One) Abstract Submission Form   Keynote: Professor, Dr. Richard Koeck. Chair, Architecture and the Visual Arts, University of Liverpool;

Deadline extended to 15 January 2020 Worldmaking around the world: rethinking the intersections of popular media, translation and LGBTQ+ activism across cultures Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter. 17-18 April 2020. Keynote Speakers: Jack Halberstam, Columbia University &

Editor: Dr Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Edge Hill University) This edited collection aims to capture the way human mobility is represented on screen (any type of screen: cinema, television, museum or public displays, tourist information, urban advertising, mobile devices etc). The project is based on the premise that human mobility is a major defining aspect of contemporary life, that mobility has become the paradigm of being and creating in the

Digital Curation has become ubiquitous on a scale ranging from large digital preservation programmes to individual citizen curation projects that often involve collaborations between professionals and enthusiasts. Extending Joseph Beuys’ controversial assertion that everyone is an artist, now everyone is a (digital) curator. Curation in the context of Contemporary Art is closely aligned with Digital Curation skills;

Edited by: Brett A.B. Robinson (Brock University) and Dr. Christine Daigle (Brock University) Since 9/11 there has been a significant increase in narratives dealing with serial killers in popular television.