SOUND ON SCREEN II HYBRID CONFERENCE, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY, 5th-6th JULY 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FRIDAY 24th MARCH 2023 (23:59) Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words, an indication of whether you would prefer to appear in person or online, and a brief biography of no more than 150 words to soundonscreen@outlook.com by March 24th 2023. The second

Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023: The Disney, Culture and Society’s First Annual Conference celebrating 1 year of DisNet! Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023 An international, multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, the Walt Disney Company has been in our lives since 1923.

This collection initially examines cinematic, televisual, literary, visual and poetic representations of body parts who are vitalized, autonomized, individuated and animated. They become independent entities with a mind of their own.

Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium Online (Zoom), 2 June 2023 “Screening Spaces of Youth” aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of youth in audiovisual texts media, including cinema, television and other media. More specifically, this one-day online symposium places its focus on onscreen representations of spaces of youth.

I have been writing about Samuel Beckett’s film and television plays for over 20 years, but until recently I had not studied screen adaptations of his theatre plays. A new collection of essays about adaptations of Beckett’s work after his death in 1989 gave me an opportunity to write about the Beckett on Film project (2001) that adapted all 19 of his theatre plays.

Nuns have a presence in cinema as longstanding as the medium itself, including the 1922 horror film Haxan . 2021’s Benedetta , a controversial but successful Paul Verhoeven film, is a recent restatement of the capacity for stories about women religious, or women in vocation normally called nuns, to be the source of powerful and successful works across all conceivable genres.

The election of President Trump, plus the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have invigorated cultural reckoning about the role of popular culture plays in creating the conditions for inequity and exploitation.

or Keeping it (un)Real or Questions at the End, thanks. Yes, I know, thank you so much for watching, I’m really happy that you recognised me from the telly and decided to let me know that you had.

Panel Proposal Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association October 5-8, Montréal, Québec, Canada From various ARD- and ZDF- Themenabende on “deutsche Glaubenskrieger” or “Die Islamdebatte”, to Fernsehfilme like Unterwerfung and Fernseh- and Streaming-Serien from Türkisch für Anfänger to 4 Blocks , to Friedrich Merz’ recent “kleine Paschas” statement on the

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.