Tales of explorers and adventurers often blur the line between science and fiction, with chronicles of the exotic and the unknown becoming the stuff of legends and the building blocks of history. Explorer’s tales spin heroic stories of adventures that cross borders, shatter boundaries, develop new knowledge, and, in so doing, depict the causes and consequences of seeking dominion over people and places.

Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2022 Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies , for which a contract has already been signed.

Call for articles for the 17th issue of the journal Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias https://journals.openedition.org/ges/ Ages of life, ages on screen: P assag es, thresholds, transitions and gendered evolutions. How  are  the  thresholds  and  transitions  linked

Call for papers: XXIV Annual Graduate Student Conference, Feb. 9 & 10, 2023 School of Cinema, San Francisco State University Extended deadline submission: November 15, 2022 “Requiem for Netflix?

This one-day symposium is the culmination of a BA/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant funded project on the cultural economy of comedy in the East Midlands. This event brings together comedians and comedy researchers to explore comedy, precarity and inequality today.

This symposium draws attention to the current debates on media’s role in shaping and popularizing contemporary feminisms ranging from celebrity feminism to neo-liberal and post-feminism (Rottenberg et al 2020). It underscores the role of popular culture and media as sites of feminism and (subversive) feminist struggle.

We are living in turbulent and increasingly dangerous times which are in large part defined and influenced by the very thing we study and research, namely media, communication infrastructures, algorithms, and data. Faced with an uncertain future, we can discern both dystopian and optimistic scenarios. In terms of the former we need critique, as well as ethical norms and values to validate those critiques.

Collaborative Creativity in Film and Television Edited by Lucy Brown, Rosamund Davies and Funke Oyebanjo Abstract submission deadline: Friday 7 ^th October 2022 Film and television are highly collaborative sectors of creative production. They rely not only on the talent and skills of individuals, but on the particular forms of collaborative creativity that emerge from individuals working together.

DEMOSERIES invites proposals for the International Symposium “What is a good series?” that will take place November 21 and 22, 2022 at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Submissions for a special issue of IJFMA Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023) are now open “Precarity and the Moving Image” Audiovisual Arts (both in their intra-cinematic elements and through its extra-cinematic contexts) have always been a vehicle to display and discuss precarity, as well as affected by it in their modes of production. The notion of Precarity, however, in itself, is also a very open and problematic concept.