The series Black Mirror , first aired on the UK Channel 4 in 2011, has achieved an international standing for its reinvention of speculative anthology television and continues to innovate in the form: the interactive feature-length Bandersnatch (2018) offered viewers a branching, ergodic narrative, multiple endings and the opportunity to experience a type of cyborg textuality through the TV format.

Editors: Dr. Melanie Robson (UNSW Sydney), Dr. Jessica Ford (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Dr. Phoebe Macrossan (Queensland University of Technology) In his 20 years in the US television industry Ryan Murphy has amassed a large and diverse body of television work. Murphy exemplifies the modern TV mogul, operating as an executive producer, creator, showrunner, writer and director on a wide range of series.

“We are living in a great epistolary age, even if no one much acknowledges it. Our phones, by obviating phoning, have reestablished the omnipresence of text. Think of the sheer profusion of messages … that we now send.

‘Dreams and Atrocity: Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Trauma in Art, Literature and Visual Culture’ Call for Papers 120 years after Sigmund Freud first posited his seminal theorisation of dreams in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), cultural interest in sleep and dreaming is becoming increasingly pronounced, both within, and outside of, scholarly spheres.

Editors Amanda Howell and Stephanie Green (School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science, Griffith University, Australia) seek contributors to an anthology whose collective analysis will be directed to the question: What can 21st century film and television tell us about the historical imagination of horror? Fredric Jameson observes pithily in The Political Unconscious (1982/2017) that ‘History is what hurts’ (88),

We are seeking proposals for chapters to complete an edited collection on morality and ethics on/through television. The essays will address TV dramas and comedies aired during the Golden Age of TV, continuing through peak and prestige TV. An editor at Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, has expressed interest in this project.

In Visible Man (1924), Béla Balázs predicted that the cinema would rescue the face from illegibility.

There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late C20th. In particular, the 1970s and 1980s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of our contemporary cultural landscape.

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.

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.