(Orgs.) José Duarte (ULICES- Universidade de Lisboa), Ana Daniela Coelho (ULICES – Universidade de Lisboa) & Hermínia Sol (ULICES – Instituto Politécnico de Tomar) Submissions are open until December 20, 2019 Publication of the dossier: July 2020 We live in a new age of television series with more and more quality shows being produced every day (McCabe &

Issue 16, Winter 2019 Chief Editors: Ana Maria Sapountzi & Peize Li Book    Review Editor: Patrick Adamson Almost every culture on earth contains within its history some form of magic and magical women.

There’s nothing as loyal as a prisoner fan (Val Lehman, 2019) On June 25 a capacity crowd met at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne – the city that is the home of iconic Australian television series Prisoner (1979-1986) – to celebrate 40 years since the show made its debut on Australia’s Network 10. Prisoner’ s extraordinary 692-episode run is made more remarkable by the fact that it was commissioned as a 16-part

Special Issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research Co-edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu; larsen@ccsu.edu Connections between any of the works of both creative geniuses are fair game for this interdisciplinary volume. Some possible topics include: world-building, horror and the monstrous, critiques of heroism, women’s roles, Buffy-speak and elf-speak, and villainous motivations.

Back in January 2012, when I was nudging towards the end of my PhD, two old friends and I embarked on a road trip to Wigan to celebrate another chum’s fortieth birthday.

Incongruity, Immanuel Kant once observed, is an essential element of humor.

Across the Live / Mediatised Divide A Cross-Disciplinary Audience Research Conference Tuesday 17 September 2019 Department of Theatre, Film & Television, University of York Keynotes Professor Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University) Dr Kirsty Sedgman (University of Bristol) Audience research is a growing area in many diverse areas of study, from film, television and theatre to music, communications media and gaming.

Keynotes: Elizabeth Wilson (http://www.elizabethwilson.net) Richard Dyer, King’s College, London Deadline for proposals: Thursday 1 August 2019 Camp has enjoyed many definitions throughout decades of academic discussion and debate.

Well to me it [country music] is soul music.  It’s probably white man’s soul music.  And it comes from the heart. — Kris Kristofferson from Country Music (2019) in Episode One: ‘The Rub’ (Beginnings-1933)

A few years ago a colleague suggested that I watch an unusual television programme about people watching television programmes. Obviously, such a description didn’t initially tempt me to spend my valuable leisure time observing a bunch of boring strangers make silly comments about this week’s programmes. I’m more than capable of doing this myself.