Call for papers for collected volume Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial television As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age” of television, the accent has increasingly been placed on the excess inherent in the form, the temptation to “binge-watch” a single fiction over several hours, or the proliferation of narratives and storylines in American television’s “endless present” (which, unlike its British

CFP – Special Collection: Creating Comics, Creative Comics Special Collection Editors: Brian Fagence (University of South Wales) and Geraint D’Arcy (University of South Wales) with editorial support from The Comics Grid´s editorial team, led by Kathleen Dunley, Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins Deadline for submissions: 1st October 2018 The First USW Cardiff: Comics Symposium (1st […]

Progress: A Decade of Comics Scholarship Leeds Central Library 20-21 September Call for Papers Deadline extended to the 23rd of July 2018. Comics Forum 2018 is the tenth anniversary of the annual conference series.

The 1st Lisbon Winter School for the Study of Communication will take a comparative and global approach to the study of media and populism across time.

“Well, we all need a little love in our lives.” So replied the actor-musician François Clemmons, who for 25 years played Officer Clemmons on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (Family Communications, 1968-2001), when he was asked recently why he thought it was that the new documentary about his friend Fred Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor (Tremolo, […]

This blog post was originally published by the AHRC.   After The Fast Show, how does one present jazz on television?

Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy.

Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of essays that examine positive, healthy, and accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media.

Call for Submissions: At the Edge Media Fields Journal University of California, Santa Barbara Submission Deadline: September 28, 2018

There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s most popular shows, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been medical in focus, from hospital-set dramas like ER to reality TV shows and docudramas like One Born Every Minute . This fascination with doctors, hospitals and bodies is also shared by period drama television, but scholarship has paid little attention to this

Like Proust and his madeleine, the simple act of eating in Anthony Bourdain’s television shows usually became an occasion for memory. Whether it was over mohinga in Yangon, egusi soup in Lagos, or clams at the Jersey shore, sharing a meal with Bourdain often became a portal to the past: to one’s childhood; to memories of family and community;