XXVII IAMHIST Conference POWER AND THE MEDIA (Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16-19 July 2019) Confirmed keynote speakers include: James Curran (Goldsmiths, University of London) Jennifer Smyth (University of Warwick) Papers and panels are invited for the 2019 conference of the International Association for Media and History.

Department of Communication and Media | March 14th 2019 | Organisers: Annette Hill and Magnus Johansson Mixed modes of storytelling abound in the contemporary media landscape. There are mixed genres, such as political comedy or docudrama, that mine the generic elements of information and entertainment to create storytelling based on real events.

NECSUS Autumn 2019_#Gesture Guest editor: Miriam de Rosa (Coventry University) A visible action working as utterance, according to Giorgio Agamben gesture is ‘the exhibition of mediality’. It unveils a process and crystallises a meaning into a temporary form, making visible and yet relying upon a sense of deep tactility and materiality, especially when it is performed by the hands.

With Haunting of Hill House plugging the hole left by Stranger Things this Halloween[1], I started thinking about Netflix’s other original horror dramas and whether or not there is method to a Netflix TV horror. Is there anything common to a Netflix horror series or are they all totally and unequivocally different?

‘Alright, it’s me Joyce Byers fae Stranger Things. Everybody calls me big Jo-B.’ Imagine a different world, a world were stuff was Scottish… Harry Potter , Game of Thrones , Stranger Things , Gwyneth Paltrow, The Handmaid’s Tale —all Scottish. The good news is, you don’t have to imagine this because Ashley Storrie has already done it for you, in a handy set of refreshingly foul-mouthed short videos.

In December 2016, in an international conference entitled “50 years of Greek Television” that took place in Thessaloniki, organized by the Laboratory of Cultural and Visual Studies of the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication, both well-established and emerging scholars came together to discuss the past, present, and future of (the academic study of) Greek television.

Netflix launched their newest drama Haunting of Hill House on 12th October, just in time for Halloween 2018.

16-17 December 2019, Centre for Life-Writing Research, King’s College London, UK Convenors: Julia Lajta-Novak (Vienna) and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (Durham) **Web: ** https://herstory-reimagined.net How do the lives of historical women become the raw material of novelists and filmmakers?

Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Phil Scepanski Abstracts/Proposals (300 words) due December 10th.

The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes , will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature films.  Many superheroes have experienced the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others.

The BBC television programme Eat Well for Less , now entering its sixth round of production, first aired in the United Kingdom in January 2015.