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.

Originally published on The Conversation on October 8, 2019.   It’s 1963. Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a college-bound teenager staying at Kellerman’s Mountain Lodge with her family. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) is a dance instructor at the resort – and Baby’s love interest.

Media practice remains under-theorised. What actually happens when media artefacts are made is the last great mystery in our subject area. Practice is now a major part of many degrees, but those who teach it tend to have an inferiority complex in relation to their Theory Colleagues.

Seeking submissions for *The American West of David Lynch’s Filmography and in Twin Peaks: Essays on Regional Identity, Narratives, and History. *This book will be with McFarland Books. The films of David Lynch and transmedia series *Twin Peaks *with author Mark Frost have long held a reputation for innovation in film, television, and unconventional storytelling on screen and in novel. This collection will add a Western U.S.

Editors: Cathrin Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Kim Toft Hansen. Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe and across different media at the moment.

The special issue of Filmicon “Strategies of the Documentary” seeks to address the diverse aesthetic, historical, medial, and theoretical connections between moving images and all possible aspects of the ‘documentary.’ In light of the many facets of this key term, the issue does not confine itself to practices or traditions of documentary cinema in Greece.

Story Work for a Just Future Exploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International Community of Practice

Birmingham City University is pleased to announce Jazz on the Telly , a conference to be held on 12 October 2019. This event will mark the conclusion of the AHRC-funded project, Jazz on BBC-TV 1960-1969 , part of an ECR Research Leadership Fellowship awarded to Dr Nicolas Pillai.

Despite the confidence of its title, History’s recent miniseries The Food That Built America (2019) seems to invite questions about its own premise. What, we might ask, does it mean to say that a particular food has built America? Do we mean “built” economically? Culturally? Politically? All of the above? Whose America are we even talking about?

Note: contains spoilers for series one and two.

Twenty-first century media have seen a rise not only in remakes and “re-imaginings” (television series like Hawaii 5-0 or Battlestar Galactica , video games like Tomb Raider , or films like Ghostbusters ) but also transmedia adaptations (comic book series becoming television becoming video games, board games and Hallowe’en costumes, a la The Walking Dead ), works based in nostalgic callback ( Ready