I’ve spoken before that I am a HUGE fan of The Bridge and especially the character of Saga Noren.  Last night, my adoration for the series went to a whole new level.

CFP:  (UPDATE) Children, Youth, and International Television Calls for submissions to a collection that critically examines programs that prominently feature children in international (i.e. non-American) television. Programs may include those targeted to children, or those programs targeted to adults but contain significant child characters.

Call for Papers *Sound Collectives: The Acoustics of the Social in American Film and Literature * An International Conference, Dec. 7-8, 2018, Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the material and virtual spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices audible.

CALL FOR PAPERS: What’s (the) News? Values, Viruses and Vectors of Newsworthiness 13-14 December 2018   Third biennial conference of the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) Department of Applied Linguistics / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium   Deadline for proposals: 30 JUNE 2018 Contact: whatnews@vub.be

Call for Papers and Presentations Batman in Popular Culture Conference Friday, April 12 and Saturday April, 13 2019 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA The Department of Popular Culture and the Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio are proud to announce the Batman in Popular Culture […]

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I’m the king of the world! — James Cameron on accepting the 1998 Best Director Oscar for Titanic (1997)   Nothing epitomizes the insularity, vanity, and self-regard of the entertainment industry like awards shows.

This article was originally published on The Conversation on 4 June 2018.

Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has since extensively been employed to transport and mediate history in manifold ways.

I have been thinking about a piece written by Elke Weissman[1] a lot recently. In it she describes how her experience at the 2015 MeCCSA conference had ultimately forced her to accept that television watching was (in its medium specific sense) no more. In years since, plenty of scholars have joined her in the search for understanding change, and for functionable terminology.

VIEW Journal Call for Papers on “Canned Television Going Global?”: The Transnational Circulation of Ready-Made Content in Television The issue of audio-visual content international distribution and circulation is one of the most relevant in recent debates in Media and Television Studies: in the “age of plenty” (Ellis: 2000) distribution presents innovative features relating to both the introduction of new digital platforms and the