In my first ever blog for ECREA/CST, I talked about how Succession (HBO/Sky, 2017-2023), then having aired three series, engaged with Classical history and myth/legends.

This post first appeared on the WFTHN blog on 24 May 2024.

se see the following CFP for an edited collected on television series created by Golden Girls creator Susan Harris. Edited by Rosanne Welch This edited volume on the works of Susan Harris will be part of the new SCREEN STORYTELLERS series published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on television series created by Harris.

KEYNOTES Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero (UC Davis), S. Jonathon O’Donnell (Queen’s University Belfast), Matthew Carter (Manchester Metropolitan University) Reprising its first edition, the conference will focus on how US American identities have been shaped, informed, configured, and challenged since the country’s foundation.

There are, I believe, in all countries myths that emphasise some places as outliers, as different from the norm. In France, this myth was humorously captured in the film Welcome to the Sticks (Dany Boon, 2008) . In Germany, it is noticeable in how people from the rest of the country talk about Bavaria or indeed people from Bavaria talk about the rest of the country.

For understandable, if not necessarily justified, reasons, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is often suspected to be or accused of being involved in any and every political conspiracy which involves covert interference with a government (Becker, 2020 on the historical reality of CIA political involvement).[1] In terms of more direct law enforcement operations, the American Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) also tend to be referenced in

The virtual conference will focus on US American imaginaries related to neo/noir and thriller narratives.

Dementia Futures Call for Papers 22-24 January 2025  Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester    Conference organisers: MaoHui Deng, Sarah Fox, Kate Maguire-Rosier, and Réka Polonyi Cultural narratives and research around dementia are not usually focused on ideas of a future with dementia.

Editors : Léa Dreyer, Evgenii Kozlov, Pierre-Jacques Pernuit, Clara Royer, Anne-Katrin Weber In 1924, the “Jenkins Picture-Strip Machine,” a wireless-photography transmission device invented by the U.S. television pioneer Charles Jenkins, was used as part of an ambitious astronomy experiment.

Okay, so… this is a book review. Sounds a bit boring doesn’t it?  I mean – a book review.  I can’t remember the last time that I did a book review per se because I think I got bored with them myself.  They’re everywhere, aren’t they?  Online. In magazines. In newsletters.  And part of me thinks – who needs ’em?  Why add to the mass of unread ones out there?