CFP: Continuity and Change in Media Representation The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 (to be published Fall 2025) Special Issue Theme Representation matters has become a popular idiom conveying the transformative power of media representation to reframe cultural narratives and material conditions, often for historically underrepresented groups.
A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is unorthodox but offers an alternative and marginalised perspective. Typically, when thinking of climate change, David Attenborough, Britain’s national treasure, comes to mind.
As a currently-peripatetic academic, I often live and travel in areas that are meteorologically interesting. Between growing up somewhere that can give residents all four seasons in a single day (not to mention metres of snow at a time)[1] and then living in a series of deserts, tropical savannahs, highlands and seasides, listening to or watching local weather forecasts has long been an integral part of my daily life.
This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships.
In the 1970s Anglo-American feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines began to explore the problematic representations of women in Hollywood cinema, issues and concerns over female spectatorship, as well as the history of women’s cinema in Hollywood and beyond.
Editors: Dr Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) and James Shelton (Buckinghamshire New University) Contact Email: refocusguyritchie@gmail.com The career of Guy Ritchie encompasses an eclectic selection of films across a number of genres.
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the history of the audio-visual mass media from c.1900 to the present.
Comedy-drama The Good Place (NBC, 2016-2020) features a variety of existential and philosophical debates as part of its premise.
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine has evoked memories of the Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011) disasters besides displaying the extent of globally dispersed nuclear weapon proliferation since the end of the Cold War.
“Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture” Conference at Leipzig University, Germany Institute for American Studies 22-23 May 2025 Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert From the freak shows of the 19th century to contemporary odd, extraordinary, or otherwise exceptional characters, the ‘freak’ as a figure has seen tremendous popularity throughout US literature
We are planning a peer-reviewed special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia focused on the topics of individuality and community in mid-century American culture (1945-1964), inviting explorations of the literature, film, art, and thought of the period. We seek 8,000-word articles that focus either on individual writers/artists/thinkers in the period or engage with the topic more broadly.
