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This article first appeared in The Conversation, 16 October 2019   The new Sky Crime TV channel is entirely devoted to true crime documentaries.

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Join the Wayne State University Pop Culture Consortium for #WaynePop2020, our 6th annual Conference on Popular Culture! From Roots to All the President’s Men, Maus to Holocaust , our understanding of moments in history are often shaped by the media we consume.

Call for Papers: The Intermediality of the Screen: Mediation, Performance, Immersion Editors: Dr. Ian Robinson (Queen’s University) & Dr. Shana MacDonald (University of Waterloo) This edited collection aims to catalog, critique, and offer new theoretical and methodological accounts of the intermediality of performance culture and its intersections with screen technologies in the 21 ^st century.

If you live in any country other than Turkey, Hungary, India, Brazil, the USA or the UK (and a number of others more) you might be excused for thinking that life is … kind of as it has always been.

Originally published on The Conversation on October 8, 2019.   It’s 1963. Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a college-bound teenager staying at Kellerman’s Mountain Lodge with her family. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) is a dance instructor at the resort – and Baby’s love interest.

Media practice remains under-theorised. What actually happens when media artefacts are made is the last great mystery in our subject area. Practice is now a major part of many degrees, but those who teach it tend to have an inferiority complex in relation to their Theory Colleagues.

Seeking submissions for The American West of David Lynch’s Filmography and in Twin Peaks: Essays on Regional Identity, Narratives, and History. This book will be with McFarland Books. The films of David Lynch and transmedia series Twin Peaks with author Mark Frost have long held a reputation for innovation in film, television, and unconventional storytelling on screen and in novel.

Editors: Cathrin Bengesser, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Kim Toft Hansen. Although a widely popular genre for over a century, crime narratives are experiencing an unprecedented popularity all across Europe and across different media at the moment.