Call for Papers – Special Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television Guest Editors: Lorrie Palmer and Lisa Purse “When the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television” With the release of Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016), public perception of the iconic era of the space race was reconfigured.
Media Convergence Research Centre and Centre for Culture and Creative Industries Bath Spa University, Corsham Court Campus One-Day Academic-Industry Workshop: Friday 24th November 2017 Confirmed Industry Speakers: Alison Norrington, Creative Director at StoryCentral Ltd.
Digital Violence: A Symposium. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom Saturday, November 4 th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown University) Eugenia Siapera &
Crossings: Stories of Migration (June-September 2017) is an ICA-led UK-wide film and events programme supported by the BFI using National Lottery funding, in partnership with the Goethe-Institut and the School of Film & Television, Falmouth University. We live in an age of migration.
The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked.
The editor seeks scholarly essays that address some aspect of HBO’s television series The Leftovers (2014-2017) and/or its source text, Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same title (2011) . Perrotta co-produced the series with show runner David Lindelof ( Lost ). Both novel and series are set three years after the “Sudden Departure” of 2% of the world’s population.
Hosted by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Organised by Monash University and the University of Warwick with funding provided by the Monash Warwick Alliance (Un)Ethical Futures is a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring the ethical concerns of utopia, dystopia and science fiction.
We are pleased to call for participation in the third “Italian Way to Pop” one-day symposium, to be held October 23, 2017 at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In 2006, the network was launched as a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. Entertainment and next generation to The WB and UPN (1995-2006), which followed Fox’s success and shift in television broadcasting away from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and toward young viewers.
The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal Mai is seeking contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai/ is a new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai Zetterling.
