“I thought there were fifty-one episodes of Maigret plus the pilot with someone other than Rupert Davies.

“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory , their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories,” wrote the feminist activist Casey Miller and activist/linguist Kate Swift in their publication Words and Women (1976: 135). 40 years later, the goals for equality that second wave feminists like Miller and Swift fought for are far from

Oh, football. It does rather take over, doesn’t it? As one who has oft written of his dependence on the broadcast schedule, I struggle to comprehend why the commencement of another international sporting competition means I can’t watch Have I Got News for You of a Friday evening.

PART IV S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.

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.

So, when I started to think about this post, I initially planned on writing about Zack Snyder’s Justice League , that sweeping superhero epic that dropped on HBO Max this past March.

PART III S4C was launched on November 1, 1982 – the night before Channel 4’s launch – and Euryn Ogwen, as head of programmes was responsible for constructing the new channel’s first hour. I was ten years old, and watching the first hour in the office of my father’s television company, Screen ’82, in Aberystwyth.

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.

Journeys Across Media: a Postgraduate Conference 15th September 2021 Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading Beyond the Pandemic – productive and situational legacies in media The potential for a successful global vaccine rollout means a possible return to pre-pandemic media practices.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that there has been a lot of anticipation about an event scheduled for this late Spring: yep, the cicadas have been hatching in the USA. Also, there’s been the Friends reunion special. Both of these events have been causing a lot of noise. For the purposes of this blog, let’s focus on the latter.