Media Journeys 2021  Special Issue: Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance  Making Monsters: The Production of Terror   We are seeking proposals for article contribution for a special issue in the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance on the intersection of adaptation, special effects, and monstrosity. Monsters stalk through modern media.

Call for Book Proposals Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East Peter Lang Publishing

A new collection on superheroes is proposed for Peter Lang. As media texts show us superheroes from around the world(s), demonstrating extraordinary abilities and living a life shaped by a moral code, how we define their iconic features and cultural impact has been the focus of much scholarly debate.

Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future Third Edition of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies International Conference In person ONLY The American University of Rome 16-18 June 2022 The year 2022 marks the 10 ^th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema &

New Creative Praxis in Film and Television planned for May 6-7, 2022 marks Istanbul Bilgi University’s fourth annual event dedicated to women and media.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin, calls to defund the police, the prominence in the media of killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political agendas.

Wastelands: 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land . The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States.

We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington Books. This edited collection will examine how animal characters in film and television serve as protagonists, antagonists, or anti-heroes fulfilling various narrative functions.

Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship on issues of television, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. The first Console-ing Passions conference was held at the University of Iowa in 1992.

Guest Editors: Valentina Romanzi and Bruno Walter Renato Toscano The quest to define the true essence of US identity dates back to colonial times, long before the nation itself was formally established.