1991 was a bit of a disappointing year in some respects.

CfP for Special Publication of Apparatus. Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe: Pandemic Movies in Central and Eastern European Film and Television Guest edited by Raoul Eshelman, Mario Slugan, and Denise J. Youngblood

Edited by Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper To talk about the crime genre—as opposed to detective or spy or noir fiction—is to recognise the comprehensiveness of a category that speaks to and contains multiple sub-genres and forms (Ascari, 2007). In this volume, we want to uncover the ways in which the crime genre, in all of its multiple guises, forms and media/transmedia developments, has

We are looking for chapter proposals for an edited collection on Kevin Costner examining the role of/potential of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costner’s career is a myriad of successes and failures. In the past 35 years, his movies grossed 2 billion dollars in ticket sales worldwide and he has he won/been nominated for several Academy Awards;

This is the final Call for Papers for the edited book ‘Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’. The book analyses, deconstructs and challenges representations of Japan in a variety of different visual media such as cinema, documentary film, photography, visual art and computer games.

We are in more than an evolution.  We are in a revolution of communication and cinema or movies or whatever you want to call it. — Martin Scorsese, 19 December 2019 (Galloway 106)   Martin Scorsese first moved to Hollywood in 1971.

‘Have you noticed how poetic and philosophic the titles of some of those tough American drama series are getting on TV? Tonight’s Sam Benedict (1962-1963) [i] story on London ITV at 8.0, for instance is called Green Room, Grey Morning . Last week it was Run Softly, Oh Softly . And before that Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep . Dr Kildare (1961-1966) appears tonight (BBC 8.0) in Love is a Sad Song . Last

** ** The entertainment industries create the most widely circulated popular images of children and childhood, and yet the role of children in celebrity studies warrants further study.

Date: 10th Jun 2020 Event time: 14:00 to 15:00 We will be livestreaming this talk, with login details available on this page on the day. Malcolm Hulke (1924-1979) was a successful writer for radio, television and the cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Like many other lecturers and tutors of media and creative industries courses, I have spent much of the past semester redesigning for online delivery classes intended for face-to-face teaching. In some cases, learning, teaching and assessment were radically altered in order to facilitate students’ submission of work for the semester’s end. Students’ documentary shorts became paper-based portfolios.

Lockdown has been a peculiar time for us all, no less so in our viewing habits. Indeed, my partner and I noticed a bizarre confluence of viewing and reading habits that related to death. Not just death, I hasten to add but actually life, in the face of inevitable death. Prior to lockdown we had started watching Allen Ball’s HBO series Six Feet Under ( SFU, 2001 – 2005) about a family who run a funeral home in Los Angeles.