Tales of explorers and adventurers often blur the line between science and fiction, with chronicles of the exotic and the unknown becoming the stuff of legends and the building blocks of history. Explorer’s tales spin heroic stories of adventures that cross borders, shatter boundaries, develop new knowledge, and, in so doing, depict the causes and consequences of seeking dominion over people and places.

What can the TV Dictionary project teach us not only about television and videographic criticism but also about the relationship between the center and the periphery? Thus far, the TV Dictionary project has gathered an impressive number of 80 short video essays.

The UK’s Channel 4 turns 40 on 4 November 2022. How can we assess the achievements (and failures) of this unique broadcasting initiative? The UK’s fourth TV channel was set up by a conservative government to be innovative in the form and content of programmes. Now it is just one small group of channels among the hundreds that are available. Conceived as the agent of change in the TV industry, has it now served its purpose?

**Deadline for submissions: **1 December 2022 Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies , for which a contract has already been signed.

Call for articles for the 17th issue of the journal Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias https://journals.openedition.org/ges/ Ages of life, ages on screen: Passages, thresholds, transitions and gendered evolutions. How  are  the  thresholds  and  transitions  linked

Call for papers: XXIV Annual Graduate Student Conference, Feb. 9 & 10, 2023 School of Cinema, San Francisco State University Extended deadline submission: November 15, 2022 **“Requiem for Netflix?

It’s Monday morning, 10.30am, British Summer Time, just, and the Tories are gifting (read ‘inflicting on’) us another Prime Minister.

This blog is a collaboration between the research projects Global natives? Serving young audiences on global media platforms, Reaching young audiences: Serial fiction and cross-media storyworlds for children and young audiences and Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture?

This one-day symposium is the culmination of a BA/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant funded project on the cultural economy of comedy in the East Midlands. This event brings together comedians and comedy researchers to explore comedy, precarity and inequality today.

“Now, the programme is made on film – since we can see what looks like a 35mm film camera in the chapel and the image has vertical tramline scratching of the sort you’d expect with film – but it’s in colour. That’s fine – there were television series being made in colour in the UK as early as Men, Women and Clothes in July 1956, and this is some time in the 1960s, so that’s okay.

This symposium draws attention to the current debates on media’s role in shaping and popularizing contemporary feminisms ranging from celebrity feminism to neo-liberal and post-feminism (Rottenberg et al 2020). It underscores the role of popular culture and media as sites of feminism and (subversive) feminist struggle.