The Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Art (ICMA) and the Faculty of Visual Arts and Design at George Enescu National University of Arts (UNAGE) are pleased to invite submissions of articles for publication in the Beyond Biopolitics: Visual Digital Culture and the 21st Century Disruptive Events volume.

The Reckoning is the BBC’s examination of the life and criminality of broadcaster Jimmy Savile (played by Steve Coogan), which aired over the last fortnight on BBC1 (available on iPlayer). It is billed as a ‘Factual drama examining the crimes of Jimmy Savile, with testimony from survivors.’ and that is an accurate description, but its existence is puzzling. Who is it for and why was it made?

I sometimes feel like a bit of an imposter. As women working in academia, we probably all feel a little like this. With me, that feeling is also because being an academic is my second career; my first was as a programme maker for the BBC, something I loved doing for twenty years.

Yo creo que la sobrevivencia de los blogs dependerá de la capacidad de hacerlos realmente colaborativos y de volver al concepto primigenio de entradas cortas.

Like many people, I binge-watch horror films or movie franchises in the run-up to Halloween. With the release of Saw X this October , I decided to revisit the series’ nine predecessors that belong to the wave of ‘torture porn’ films popularised in the 2000s. While many franchises employ serial storytelling, I was struck by how Saw felt more like ‘TV’ than other horror series I’ve watched over the years. Fig.

The trope of aliens visiting Earth has been a science fiction staple since long before the Lumière Brothers first recorded and (re)played a train coming into a station. Aliens coming in peace and trying to hide in plain sight in contemporary (ish) society is slightly newer and can be used to great comedic effect.

WARNING: The following article contains the words “Who” and “Doctor”, but not necessarily in that order.

In person ONLY The American University of Rome 13-15 June 2024 The twenty-first century has witnessed a burgeoning of non-fiction filmmaking in Italy, facilitated in part by technological developments and in part by the desire to respond to rapidly shifting social realities and changes in the natural environment.

CFP: Media Values: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025) Media industries utilize a number of different strategies to assign value to their commodities. Box office receipts have long been a benchmark of success for theatrical film releases, despite proliferating ancillary revenue streams. Audience ratings determined advertising dollars as the dominant form of evaluation in linear commercial television.

Using a distinct but, to my mind, representative episode from the series, I enjoyed drawing out the way The Last of Us engages with meanings and configurations of home. “Home,” as the first part of my video essay suggests, can constitute a safe space, sometimes a place of active retreat from danger.