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

Media, Diplomacy and Soft Power: Exploring the Relations Between Emerging Markets and Western Countries   Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 20th-21st, 2019   Confirmed keynote speaker: Stanley Rosen (University of Southern California) A second keynote speaker will be soon announced

Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the eighth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Ireland, July 16th – 18th, 2019. EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms.

Whatever happened to consensus? In the wake of World War II, the United States came to occupy what many proponents of American exceptionalism have long asserted to be a unique place in modern world history. Official and quotidian versions of postwar American self-understanding became dominated by narratives of a nation dedicated to such liberal values as “freedom” and “justice,” both at home and abroad.

In Television of the Anthropocene Part I (that I wrote exactly a year ago), I introduced the idea of the Television of the Anthropocene, and I suggested that ‘the re-emergence of sci-fi, fantasy, and post-apocalyptic genres and generic hybrids on television that address questions about human and non-human futures was unsurprising and was in line with the social and cultural status of the television as the dominant medium of storytelling’

Earlier this year I blogged about a research project I collaborate on that documents and studies all of Harold Pinter’s drama. Pinter died ten years ago, and as is often the case, the anniversary has prompted a surge of media interest in him and a series of retrospectives of his work. In London’s West End, for example, the Pinter at the Pinter season has featured a host of star actors in new productions of his theatre plays.

Location manager Ulla Malmos knows her way around Aarhus.

One of the myths shrouding the realities of US capitalism is that it is a truly private-enterprise system, with Hollywood an exemplar that is entirely sustained by its capacity to tell stories in ways that viewers pay to enjoy. Nothing could be further from the truth, in terms of the nation’s wider economy, and its screen industries in particular. The state is everywhere and nowhere in US capitalism.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access) Title: ‘Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama’ Guest Editors: Robert A. Saunders (State University of New York); Pei Sze Chow (Aarhus University); and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University) Journal: Nordicom Review Nordic Europe’s dramatic television series – from Borgen to The Bridge to Occupied– currently serve as a model for […]

Calls for Chapter Proposals: Transmedia Storytelling in Asia and Pacific Region.

Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media and Policy (Formerly International Journal of Digital Television) Special Issue 10.3 (Autumn 2019): ‘Interfacing public communications in the digital economy’ Guest edited by Michael Klontzas (University of Huddersfield) and Maria Sourbati (University of Brighton) Deadline for proposals : 30 November 2018 Public organizations tasked with the delivery of universal