Call for Book Proposals Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East Peter Lang Publishing

A new collection on superheroes is proposed for Peter Lang. As media texts show us superheroes from around the world(s), demonstrating extraordinary abilities and living a life shaped by a moral code, how we define their iconic features and cultural impact has been the focus of much scholarly debate.

In the world of teen drama (or YA drama, as some prefer), there are a number of ways to represent adolescence and its attendant horrors, and we’ve seen a great deal of fantasy-based approaches; beginning with Buffy , some establish that high school is actual hell. But few series come close to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ’s devotion to that idea.

The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin, calls to defund the police, the prominence in the media of killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political agendas.

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.

Space and place are crucial categories of analysis when looking at our societies and their functioning, as noted by Michel Foucault who saw a deep connection between power, social order, and space.

Preliminary title: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in the Nordics: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multi-Platform Era Editors: Pia Majbritt Jensen, associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Novrup Redvall, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Christa Lykke Christensen, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Edited by Dr Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, Dr Benjamin Litherland. It has become increasingly clear that fandoms and participatory culture are sites of controversy, conflict and even complicity, complicating earlier assessments that sought to celebrate creativity, collegiality, and community.

Edited by Emily Strand, MA and Amy H. Sturgis, PhD Vernon Press The generations-spanning, multimedia franchises Star Trek and Star Wars will form the focus for this edited collection of scholarly essays.

Interested authors are invited to submit abstracts to contribute chapters for inclusion in the edited collection Reimagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media . Editors: Madelon Hoedt, Marko Lukic While the analysis of the horror genre, particularly its contemporary articulations, uncovers a myriad of different topics (new (and old) theoretical paradigms, alternative interpretations of familiar narratives and tentative