This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.   Nicky Morgan, the culture secretary, has announced to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that she is open to replacing the BBC license fee with a Netflix-style subscription charge.

Proposals are invited for papers at **Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television, ** a two day international conference, 16 – 17 September 2020, at De Montfort University, Leicester.   Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.

Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies We invite papers on the role of nostalgia as a structure of feeling that animates speculative, utopian, and (post)apocalyptic texts across media. Although there has been increasing critical attention to the role of memory in these genres, nostalgia is a neglected topic.

Call for Papers Special Edition of Holocaust Studies: Culture and History: ‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’   Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education.

REMINDER – DEADLINE 1ST DECEMBER 2019   CALL FOR PAPERS KEANU REEVES Special Edition of Celebrity Studies Journal, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas Since his emergence as a teen actor in the 1980s, Keanu Reeves has been an enduring, yet elusive celebrity who continues to fascinate and frustrate in equal measure.

Conference website: https://gothflixconference.wordpress.com This conference was born following a discussion between Luke (Lancaster University) and Jess (University of Liverpool) the night before Sheffield’s Reimagining the Gothic 2019 conference where they were together presenting on a group panel on The Good Place (2016) – a tentative plan for another group panel the next year quickly evolved into something

CALL FOR PAPERS: New Frontiers? Channel 4’s Move out of London A One Day International Conference, Watershed Cultural Cinema, Bristol 11 March 2020 Hosted by the Moving Image Research Group, University of the West of England Bristol andthe BAFTSS Screen Industries Special Interest Group

I’ve been moving a lot recently, and I’m overwhelmed by many things, not least the loss, recuperation, and further loss of television. When I left the UK for Colombia this northern summer, I was pursued by Britain’s ever-avaricious and surveillant licensing authorities, who thought I might have dared to use a television in the month between the previous document expiring and my departure.

When Toby Miller sent his new blog over for this week’s CSTonline, I was instantly struck by the uncanny similarities between our lives over the past few months. I too have been moving, not a lot, just 3,500 miles away from my native hometown of London to my not-so-native new hometown of South New Jersey. I too was overwhelmed by loss – not the loss of television – but the loss of familiar television, that ‘blob out in front

Well, not exactly a virgin.

This article first appeared in The Conversation, 16 October 2019   The new Sky Crime TV channel is entirely devoted to true crime documentaries.