(Orgs.) José Duarte (ULICES- Universidade de Lisboa), Ana Daniela Coelho (ULICES – Universidade de Lisboa) & Hermínia Sol (ULICES – Instituto Politécnico de Tomar) Submissions are open until December 20, 2019 Publication of the dossier: July 2020 We live in a new age of television series with more and more quality shows being produced every day (McCabe &

Issue 16, Winter 2019 Chief Editors: Ana Maria Sapountzi & Peize Li Book    Review Editor: Patrick Adamson Almost every culture on earth contains within its history some form of magic and magical women.

Special Issue of the Journal of Tolkien Research Co-edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Kristine Larsen janet.b.croft@rutgers.edu; larsen@ccsu.edu Connections between any of the works of both creative geniuses are fair game for this interdisciplinary volume. Some possible topics include: world-building, horror and the monstrous, critiques of heroism, women’s roles, Buffy-speak and elf-speak, and villainous motivations.

Across the Live / Mediatised Divide A Cross-Disciplinary Audience Research Conference Tuesday 17 September 2019 Department of Theatre, Film & Television, University of York Keynotes Professor Martin Barker (Aberystwyth University) Dr Kirsty Sedgman (University of Bristol) Audience research is a growing area in many diverse areas of study, from film, television and theatre to music, communications media and gaming.

Keynotes: Elizabeth Wilson (http://www.elizabethwilson.net) Richard Dyer, King’s College, London Deadline for proposals: Thursday 1 August 2019 Camp has enjoyed many definitions throughout decades of academic discussion and debate.

Digital technology has altered all aspects of media cultures, including questions of identity that can affect everything from the production of texts, their content, their distribution, their reception, and more. At the same time, popular and academic understandings of queerness have evolved to incorporate expanding ideas of gender, sexuality, race, disability, ethnicity, and other identity categories.

There is a gathering consensus that television began to undergo a marked transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Two decades into the twenty-first century, an ever-increasing number of cable and streaming series conjure the emergence of a world liquidated of normative authority, saturated with media-technological developments, and struggling to find its bearings in the fray.

The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes , will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature films.  Many superheroes have experienced the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others.

An area of multiple panels for the 2019 Film &

CAMP TV OF THE 1960s. A collection of new scholarly essays edited by Isabel Pinedo and Wyatt D. Phillips Manifestations of camp became increasingly prevalent across American culture in the 1960s. More significantly perhaps, this was the decade in which camp moved from the margins and subcultures into the mainstream.