The entertainment industries create the most widely circulated popular images of children and childhood, and yet the role of children in celebrity studies warrants further study.

Date: 10th Jun 2020 Event time: 14:00 to 15:00 We will be livestreaming this talk, with login details available on this page on the day. Malcolm Hulke (1924-1979) was a successful writer for radio, television and the cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Since its first volume in 1999, the Massachusetts Historical Review (MHR) has published original analytical essays, photo-essays, historical documents, and reviews for a general audience.

Editors David L. Palatinus (University of Ruzomberok) Stefania Achella (University of Chieti-Pescara)   The purpose of this special issue of Itinerari would be to tackle the interrelation of Climate, Conflict and Migration, and the ways their pertaining ecological, political, and ethical complexities are construed and circulated via various cultural practices and ways of symbolization.

An edited collection on graphic medicine and graphic storytelling related to the COVID-19 global pandemic Editors: Alexandra P. Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, William Proctor As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect millions, kill people around the world, dismantle political, economic and cultural infrastructures, and disrupt our everyday lives, we have seen a surge in amateur and professional creative activity in the comics medium.

Date of pre-conference: 2 October 2020 Call for papers deadline: 15 May 2020 Notificiation: 1 June 2020 Organisers: João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior  (jcorreia@ubi.pt) Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior

Edited by Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher Media Discourse Centre, De Montfort University, UK (Early Publication Date tbc – needless to say, we seek polished, well-referenced material that will help us meet our editorial deadlines – method of referencing will be Harvard, blended with our ‘house style’) Overview of CfC and suggested topics The Media […]

Issue editors: Gwénaëlle Le Gras (Bordeaux Montaigne) and Jules Sandeau (Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) inquiries: gwenlegras@wanadoo.fr and sandeau.jules@gmail.com The open-access and peer-reviewed online French journal Genre en séries: cinéma, télévision, médias is devoted to the study of gender representations in film, television and other visual media.

Discussions of race have been central to television studies in the United States for decades.

The intersection between nurses and popular media is longstanding. Florence Nightingale died in 1910 and British Pathe’s coverage of her funeral is a very early instance of nurses appearing on film. Nightingale was the subject of a silent film biography by 1915 and thereafter film, television, theatre and live performance and other media have showcased the nurse and the nursing profession. The familiarity of the nurse is inherently visual;