Guest Editors: Matt Crofts and Layla Hendow, University of Hull. The post-apocalyptic wasteland holds a powerful symbolic status within the popular imagination. Ravaged by infection, invasion, the supernatural or environmental disaster, the imagery of a deserted and hostile landscape rose to prominence during the Cold War and has remained a fertile source of horror ever since. The wasteland is a nightmare;
A special issue of Feminist Media Studies Co-edited by Jilly Boyce Kay (School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK) &
Full paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2020 “SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and indexed in major international databases. It publishes two issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality.
Historically, media studies scholars have shied away from sports-related media texts due to a variety of perceived challenges: the sheer volume of texts (there’s always something on), their inaccessibility (the texts are ephemeral and controlled by corporate archives), the ambivalence of sports cultures (at once masculine and mainstream), and more.
Extrapolating Nostalgia: Special issue of Science Fiction Studies We invite papers on the role of nostalgia as a structure of feeling that animates speculative, utopian, and (post)apocalyptic texts across media. Although there has been increasing critical attention to the role of memory in these genres, nostalgia is a neglected topic.
Call for Papers Special Edition of Holocaust Studies: Culture and History: ‘Holocaust Memory and Education in the Digital Age’ Digital media are playing an increasing role in Holocaust memory and education.
REMINDER – DEADLINE 1ST DECEMBER 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS KEANU REEVES Special Edition of Celebrity Studies Journal, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas Since his emergence as a teen actor in the 1980s, Keanu Reeves has been an enduring, yet elusive celebrity who continues to fascinate and frustrate in equal measure.
The special issue of Filmicon “Strategies of the Documentary” seeks to address the diverse aesthetic, historical, medial, and theoretical connections between moving images and all possible aspects of the ‘documentary.’ In light of the many facets of this key term, the issue does not confine itself to practices or traditions of documentary cinema in Greece.
FlowJournal formally invites contributions to our new space for responses to breaking TV and media news: Over*Flow. This new feature allows time-sensitive, one-off pieces to be published on our homepage alongside our monthly columns.
Stephen King is indisputably a major figure in horror. Not only has he been a proliferous best-selling author since the 1970s, his name is also associated with a number of television and film texts, including a number of recent high-profile releases, such as It and The Dark Tower , as well as Stranger Things , a series not authored by King but openly nostalgic for his work.
