Nicky Morgan, the culture secretary, has announced to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that she is open to replacing the BBC license fee with a Netflix-style subscription charge.
Proposals are invited for papers at **Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television, ** a two day international conference, 16 – 17 September 2020, at De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.
Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies We invite papers on the role of nostalgia as a structure of feeling that animates speculative, utopian, and (post)apocalyptic texts across media. Although there has been increasing critical attention to the role of memory in these genres, nostalgia is a neglected topic.
Call for Papers Special Edition of Holocaust Studies: Culture and History : ‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’ Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education.
REMINDER – DEADLINE 1 ST DECEMBER 2019 ** ** CALL FOR PAPERS KEANU REEVES Special Edition of Celebrity Studies Journal, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas Since his emergence as a teen actor in the 1980s, Keanu Reeves has been an enduring, yet elusive celebrity who continues to fascinate and frustrate in equal measure.
Conference website: https://gothflixconference.wordpress.com This conference was born following a discussion between Luke (Lancaster University) and Jess (University of Liverpool) the night before Sheffield’s Reimagining the Gothic 2019 conference where they were together presenting on a group panel on The Good Place (2016) – a tentative plan for another group panel the next year quickly evolved into something
CALL FOR PAPERS: New Frontiers? Channel 4’s Move out of London A One Day International Conference, Watershed Cultural Cinema, Bristol 11 March 2020 **Hosted by the Moving Image Research Group, University of the West of England Bristol andthe BAFTSS Screen Industries Special Interest Group **
I’ve been moving a lot recently, and I’m overwhelmed by many things, not least the loss, recuperation, and further loss of television. When I left the UK for Colombia this northern summer, I was pursued by Britain’s ever-avaricious and surveillant licensing authorities, who thought I might have dared to use a television in the month between the previous document expiring and my departure.
When Toby Miller sent his new blog over for this week’s CSTonline, I was instantly struck by the uncanny similarities between our lives over the past few months. I too have been moving, not a lot, just 3,500 miles away from my native hometown of London to my not-so-native new hometown of South New Jersey. I too was overwhelmed by loss – not the loss of television – but the loss of familiar television, that ‘blob out in front
Well, not exactly a virgin.
The new Sky Crime TV channel is entirely devoted to true crime documentaries.