The past three decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of documentary film in Russia: the cohort of documentary “masters” who came to prominence in the 1990s, such as Vitaly Mansky, Viktor Kossakovsky, and Sergei Loznitsa have been joined by a new generation of filmmakers, including Askold Kurov, Beata Bubenets, and Alina Rudnitskaya, to name but a few.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a one-paragraph biography to SoundOnScreen2021@gmail.com by the deadline stated above. The inaugural Sound on Screen conference welcomes submissions from scholars that explore the relationship between music and/or sound and the screen.
When: May 11th – 14th 2021 Where: Online Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s College London) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkley) Institution: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed through time, continues to evolve in the present, and what […]
Representation of queer identities in twenty-first century popular television has undergone massive shifts in the last decade. Whilst queer representation has formed part of the bedrock of reality television, queer representation in scripted television has received less scholarly attention. Thus, scripted television will be the focus of this special issue of Queer Studies in Media &
Monsters stalk through modern media. They are heard howling from radio, film and television. They are even spinning their tales on every corner of the World Wide Web. Whether adapting illusory techniques from stage, like Pepper’s Ghost, or creating new and experimental forms of monstrosity that range from classic film monsters to urban legends like the Slender Man, our media worlds are crawling with monsters.
The objective of “Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead again” is to promote interdisciplinary scholarship on one of the most prevalent, yet critically understudied cultural metaphors in contemporary popular culture, namely zombies and zombiism. EXTENDED Deadline for abstract submission: March 10, 2021 Acceptance confirmation: April 10, 2021.
Special Forum of Communication, Culture & Critique (Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2022) Contribution Deadline: June 1, 2021 Contribution Length: 1000-2000 words inclusive of all notes and references Editors: Jamie J. ZHAO (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Eve NG (Ohio U) In the past decade, TV representations of female masculinity have proliferated and diversified worldwide.
The “big four” American entertainment awards—the Emmy for television, the Grammy for music, the Oscar for film, and the Tony for theater, often referred to by the “EGOT” acronym—have long served as a barometer of mainstream taste cultures in their respective fields. While literature on media awards is not completely absent, its scope has been narrow.
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 2 issues per year and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.
**** Please note this is an up-dated posting for a volume originally entitled, The Platinum Age of American Television **** Title: When American Television Became American Literature Publisher: Brill Publishers (European Perspectives on the United States series) Editor: Ben Alexander Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu Brill is interested in publishing a volume that broadly addresses American television series produced between
