The editors of a forthcoming volume are seeking concise essays of approximately 5,000 words about any aspect of Star Wars storytelling that has emerged since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. We are seeking pieces that are academically rigorous, but accessible to the general reader. The volume aims to cover the full range of transmedia forms that now comprise the Star Wars shared universe.
Digital environments have quickly become major catalysts in our shifting conversations about the ways narratives and stories are told across the media ecology. While scholarship on legacy media storytelling has traditionally been shaped by frameworks of text, audience, and industry, discourses of digital media storytelling show signs of growth and expansion as production and distribution of digital stories continue to rise in the 2020s.
Rise Up! Reconnect. Rebuild.
The 31st International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen , will be programmed by Screen Editors Professor Karen Lury and Professor Alastair Phillips.
Online (Teams) Television has been widely theorised in relation to the everyday, the habitual and the repetitive. But there are a lot of phenomena that are surprising, and that require TV scholars to provide nuance to these observations. Take Squid Game (Netflix, 2021) which was supposedly the streaming hit of the year 2021 in the UK and elsewhere. But as an example of a Korean TV drama, it is highly unusual.
For our next issue, The New Americanist is seeking submissions which consider the cultural and political conditions through which comics play a part in contemporary American life.
Diaspora Screen Media Network virtual conference 17/18 March 2022 (Birmingham City University, UK) Theme: Diaspora Cinema and Media: Globalising the Local This AHRC-funded virtual conference is the culmination of the Diaspora Screen Media Network’s series of successful events.
Keynote speakers: Georges Didi-Huberman (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) Sybille Krämer (Freie Universität, Berlin) Lev Manovich (City University, New York) Artists talk: Radu Jude & Susana de Sousa Dias Graduate Workshop keynote speakers: Samaneh Moafi & Stefanos Levidis (Forensic Architecture)
Call for Papers – Bournemouth University in collaboration with Wolverhampton University presents: Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century: Sisters in Arms Thursday June 9th – Friday June 10th 2022 at Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University Hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre Keynotes: Professor Yvonne Tasker, Leeds University, and Professor Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee, Knoxville It is 30 years since
The 10th annual BAFTSS conference will take place entirely online on the 20th–22nd April 2022, hosted by the University of St Andrews. In the past eighteen months, many of us have experienced isolation both professionally and personally due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
