2024 has started with a bang for TV. Shows like The Traitors (BBC1) and Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV) have had around 10 million people tuning in to each episode, reminding us of the social relevance and transformative power of the medium.

When writing my dissertation, these many years ago, I would often have some sort of disaster film on in the background. This is not so much because I enjoy listening to actors screaming violations of the laws of basic physics, geology and other STEM fields at the top of their lungs (though I do)[1] but because I tend to think of the genre as dark, absurdist comedy.

19-20 September 2024 The University of Warwick Keynote Speakers Dr. Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow) Dr. Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) The phenomenon of economic migration has millennia-old roots.

Title: Small Screen Food: American Identity Through a Culinary Televisual Lens Editors: Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis and Carrie Helms Tippen Proposals (500 words): March 15, 2024 Completed Chapters (7,000 words): August 15, 2024 Salman Rushdie characterized the serial television show “as the novelistic medium of the 21st century,” signifying its emerging importance and elevating its status to a realm traditionally occupied by novels.

Christa van Raalte and Christopher Pullen (both of Bournemouth University) are seeking contributors for a new edited book collection, examining ageing on screen in British film and TV drama since 2000, with a particular focus on representational issues, industry/production contexts and audience interactions.

I say this as an ardent, lifelong fan of American football, but at this point it seems impossible not to recognise that the NFL is a multibillion-dollar business with a somewhat suspect record on workers’ rights. This is particularly the case when it comes to health and safety (Fainaru-Wada and Fainaru 2013;

For my family, Christmas means television. As far as I know, we have never owned Monopoly, and the idea of playing charades is quite frankly laughable. The Royle Family Christmas specials were a staple of our Christmas TV schedule for many years.

Call for chapter proposals, working title: “Football Politics and Cultural Production in Africa: Issues and Discourses”. Deadline: April 30, 2024. Editor: Dr. Floribert Patrick C. Endong – University of Dschang, Cameroon Concept Notes In the popular imaginary, sports and politics do not mix.

REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN: 2695-4168) is an open access interdisciplinary, academic, double blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on the study of the US popular culture manifestations and the representations of the United States in popular culture.

Abstracts are sought for a proposed special journal issue, for which strong interest has been secured from a Q1 cultural studies journal. Special issue editors: Dr Laura Minor (University of Salford) and Dr Claire Perkins (Monash University) Deadline for abstracts: March 28, 2024. Over the past decade, ‘imperfection’ has emerged as one of the most recognisable themes in Western television focused on and driven by women.

On November 2, 3, 4, 2023, the Université de Montréal held an international conference on digital platforms.