I watch old sitcoms when I can no longer watch the news or news round ups, or even talk shows; when I feel so hopeless and helpless I just need to try and relax enough to be able to sleep and finish up today before the next one starts again.
The attentive amongst you (we know who you are) will realise that I lie to people. For money. Now, I’m not backstriking that as it is essentially true. I work as an actor and performer. I pretend for a living. I lie and you are all willing accomplices in the deceit and artifice that I create.
“They must pay you quite well.” What? “These blogs you do here. They must pay you quite well. I mean, I see you’ve done thirty of them. That would have been a full network season in the mid-Sixties.” I suppose it would. I’d never thought of it like that.
It’s marking madness right now, chaps. Staff usually have fifteen working days from assessment submission dates to get grades and feedback up on the Virtual Learning Environment, but as a result of the current situation students have had their late window trebled to twenty-one consecutive days.
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media http://www.alphavillejournal.com** ** ** CFP: Issue 24: Fostering Diversity on and off Screen An Australian Screen Production, Education &
Historical fiction film and television productions present a life that today’s viewers cannot experience, offering a unique escape.
Thinking the other week about binge watching – which, you may recall, I and my friends actually invented a few decades back – I have to admit that there were certain instances where it wasn’t actually our obsessional thirst for monsters and spaceships which turned us into televisual gluttons, consuming more than our body weight in Sapphire & Steel (1979-1982) episodes at a single sitting.
(with apologies to Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reaction)[1] Regular readers (hello Mum!) of my utterances on this site may be wondering what I have against TBN[2]. Well, not much in all honesty. I mean, it’s sporadic at best.
UPDATED Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 31, 2020 A decade ago, Beth Coleman and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun introduced the concept of race and/as technology.* Turning to Heidegger’s notion of techne as prosthesis or skill, Coleman and Chun imagine race itself as a technology that can be leveraged, a tool for navigating systems of power.
The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue on emerging screenwriting styles, modes, and languages, to be published in November 2022.
Edited by Dr. Dan Vena (Carleton University/Queen’s University) and Dr. Nael Bhanji (Trent University) In Transgender Studies Quarterly , Francisco J. Galatre (2014) suggests that transpedagodies should “offer students the tools they need to participate in the political and economic power structures that shape the boundaries of gender categories, with the goal of changing those structures in ways that create greater freedom” (146).