Glastonbury 2020 had no mud, no rain, no twelve-hour traffic tailbacks or the costly clean-up in the aftermath of 200,000 plus festival goers leaving behind Worthy Farm for another year.

Key findings from a new report by the Danish Film Institute. By Petar Mitric and Pia Majbritt Jensen

In 2022, one hundred years will have passed since the formation of the British Broadcasting Company, later to become the pioneering public service broadcaster best known as the BBC. The BBC has had an enormous impact on television culture in its first one hundred years, providing a blueprint for independent publicly funded broadcasting.

Guest editors: Katharina Niemeyer (University of Québec in Montréal) Magali Uhl (University of Québec in Montréal) Deadline for full proposals: 15th November 2020 (for publication in May 2021).   What place does or could Jean Baudrillard occupy in media studies, visual studies, and art theory today?

Though ubiquitous across stage, page and screen, images of siblings remain an under-researched and under-discussed phenomenon. The relationships, rivalries, conflicts and collaborations between brothers and sisters are frequently overlooked, and yet offer the possibility for fascinating discussion and insight into a wide range of cultural texts.

The body *on *the screen and the body *of *the screen have always formed a compelling and productive pairing. From apparatus theory to production and exhibition histories, these two conceptualizations of cinematic bodies remain valuable avenues for reflecting on the use of images, their visibility, materiality, and presentation.

In the first part of this blog, my discussion of Dark concentrates on the ways in which the series stands out in relation to other examples of complex television in two senses, in the considerably higher level of complexity of plot and narrative and in the self-referential relationship to this complexity.

A research opportunity In the days when we were all confined to our homes, new research opportunities arrived.

Sydney Screen Studies Network Presents: Dial S for Screen Studies 2020 Sydney Screen Studies Network is currently seeking proposals for our 2020 conference, Dial S for Screen Studies , held 18th to 19th November 2020 online via Zoom.

International coproduction, which Michelle Hilmes (2014:10) defines as “a partnership between two or more different national production entities” located in different countries, is exerting a notable influence on the creation of new high-end TV dramas produced outside the US. As ‘peak TV’ continues to expand the annual volume of US-produced TV fiction to unprecedented levels (Koblin 2020), continuing audience demand for distinctive original

Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for a forthcoming scholarly volume on representations of disability in science fiction, a peer-reviewed collection of essays that will examine how disability identity and experience have been shaped through the science fiction genre.