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Author Andrew Pixley

Now, I’m sure that, like me, you have fond memories of The World of Eddie Weary , the massively popular private investigator series of a few decades back. Fig. 1: Down these mean streets.

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Editors: ​Jennifer Dawes, Midwestern State University, jennifer.dawes@msutexas.edu Nora M. Isacoff, Columbia University, ni2237@columbia.edu Overview : The proposed book will be an interdisciplinary examination of the AppleTV show Severance , in which employees of a biotech firm consent to having their brains severed so that their work selves and non-work selves do not retain each other’s memories.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. – Ursula LeGuin, 2014 Science fiction includes a myriad of thematics from futurism, technology, transhumanism, apocalypse, other-worldliness, interspeciality, alterity and to history.

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CfP URL: https://www.tmgonline.nl/announcement/#cfpmhen Contemporary research predominantly conceives of ‘new media’—i.e., media worthy of scholarly attention—as digital media and computer technologies (Peters, 2009; Borah, 2017). Media historical scholarship has responded to this in various ways.

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Author Eva Novrup Redvall

The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.

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Author Mareike Jenner

As we all know by now, Netflix is in trouble. Initial reactions to last week’s news that Netflix lost 200.000 subscribers, the first loss of subscribers reported in a decade, included a drop in share values of 35% in one day. The reasons are complex, as, perhaps, best outlined by Josef Adalion in Vulture . After the gains made in pandemic lockdowns, Netflix lost subscribers once people started to go out again.

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This is Page III out of III. Follow this link to get back to Page I, and this link to revisit Page II.   In 1971, Nigel contributed a script to the final season of BBC2’s science-fantasy anthology series Out of the Unknown : The Chopper . “It’s a long time ago,” chuckles Nigel. “I don’t really remember it very clearly.

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This is Page II out of III. Follow along this way to get to Page I, and this link to get to Page III.   As a writer, does Nigel prefer creative writing to the demanding task of adapting the works of others? “Obviously it’s much more interesting writing your own stuff.

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Author Andrew Pixley

Quite often these days, I’m asked about the possibility of reprinting some of my earlier articles from fanzines and long-defunct magazines… and my instinct is almost always to say ‘no’. And the main reason for this is that I, as a reader, would rather read a new piece on a given subject rather than a rehash of something that was originally written when we only had a fraction of the research materials that we do now.

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Author Will Stanford Abbiss

Fig. 1: Katie Lowes as Rachel Williams in Inventing Anna When Inventing Anna debuted on Netflix on 11 February, a familiar debate about the relationship between fact and fiction was ignited. While Anna Delvey’s (Julia Garner) claims to be a German heiress were a web of lies, her extorsions as depicted in miniseries did occur – and the characters that surround her equally exist.