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
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This article first appeared in The Conversation, 16 October 2019 The new Sky Crime TV channel is entirely devoted to true crime documentaries.
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Join the Wayne State University Pop Culture Consortium for #WaynePop2020, our 6th annual Conference on Popular Culture! From Roots to *All the President’s Men, Maus *to Holocaust , our understanding of moments in history are often shaped by the media we consume.
Call for Papers: The Intermediality of the Screen: Mediation, Performance, Immersion Editors: Dr. Ian Robinson (Queen’s University) & Dr. Shana MacDonald (University of Waterloo) This edited collection aims to catalog, critique, and offer new theoretical and methodological accounts of the intermediality of performance culture and its intersections with screen technologies in the 21 st century.
If you live in any country other than Turkey, Hungary, India, Brazil, the USA or the UK (and a number of others more) you might be excused for thinking that life is … kind of as it has always been.