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

MacBain & Boyd Publishers invites articles for a scholarly anthology about post-recessionary narratives in global film and television, titled Reliving the Crash: Global Recession Narratives in Film and Television . Under a new editorship (Dr. Lauren J. DeCarvalho, The University of Denver), the projected release date is April 2020. Eight chapters have already been accepted and revised.

FlowJournal formally invites contributions to our new space for responses to breaking TV and media news: Over*Flow. This new feature allows time-sensitive, one-off pieces to be published on our homepage alongside our monthly columns.

The seventeenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 23-27, 2020. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects.

Stephen King is indisputably a major figure in horror. Not only has he been a proliferous best-selling author since the 1970s, his name is also associated with a number of television and film texts, including a number of recent high-profile releases, such as It and The Dark Tower , as well as Stranger Things , a series not authored by King but openly nostalgic for his work.

(Orgs.) José Duarte (ULICES- Universidade de Lisboa), Ana Daniela Coelho (ULICES – Universidade de Lisboa) & Hermínia Sol (ULICES – Instituto Politécnico de Tomar) Submissions are open until December 20, 2019 Publication of the dossier: July 2020 We live in a new age of television series with more and more quality shows being produced every day (McCabe &

Issue 16, Winter 2019 Chief Editors: Ana Maria Sapountzi & Peize Li Book    Review Editor: Patrick Adamson Almost every culture on earth contains within its history some form of magic and magical women.

There’s nothing as loyal as a prisoner fan (Val Lehman, 2019) On June 25 a capacity crowd met at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne – the city that is the home of iconic Australian television series Prisoner (1979-1986) – to celebrate 40 years since the show made its debut on Australia’s Network 10. *Prisoner’*s extraordinary 692-episode run is made more remarkable by the fact that it was commissioned as a 16-part standalone

Special Issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research Co-edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu; larsen@ccsu.edu Connections between any of the works of both creative geniuses are fair game for this interdisciplinary volume. Some possible topics include: world-building, horror and the monstrous, critiques of heroism, women’s roles, Buffy-speak and elf-speak, and villainous motivations.

Back in January 2012, when I was nudging towards the end of my PhD, two old friends and I embarked on a road trip to Wigan to celebrate another chum’s fortieth birthday.

Incongruity, Immanuel Kant once observed, is an essential element of humor.