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

A symposium at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts University of Sussex 4th and 5th September 2018 The commemorative and memorial use of personal, private images in the context of large-scale violence and death has a long history.

The Labour of Media (Studies): Activism, Education, and Industry

FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES Commentary and Criticism: Call for Papers 18.6 Gender, Migration, and the Media Contemporary Western mediascapes are overflowing with contradictory images of movement across borders.

Guest editors: Line Nybro Petersen, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark Anne Jerslev, Professor, University of Copenhagen Issue Editor: Christian Hviid Mortensen, Curator, The Media Museum