Twenty-first century media have seen a rise not only in remakes and “re-imaginings” (television series like Hawaii 5-0 or Battlestar Galactica , video games like Tomb Raider , or films like Ghostbusters ) but also transmedia adaptations (comic book series becoming television becoming video games, board games and Hallowe’en costumes, a la The Walking Dead ), works based in nostalgic callback ( Ready

MacBain & Boyd Publishers invites articles for a scholarly anthology about post-recessionary narratives in global film and television, titled Reliving the Crash: Global Recession Narratives in Film and Television . Under a new editorship (Dr. Lauren J. DeCarvalho, The University of Denver), the projected release date is April 2020. Eight chapters have already been accepted and revised.

The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes , will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature films.  Many superheroes have experienced the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others.

CAMP TV OF THE 1960s. A collection of new scholarly essays edited by Isabel Pinedo and Wyatt D. Phillips Manifestations of camp became increasingly prevalent across American culture in the 1960s. More significantly perhaps, this was the decade in which camp moved from the margins and subcultures into the mainstream.

In 1963 Doctor Who began with the purported intention of using drama to teach science. Since then it has inspired many people to pursue scientific careers and the science presented in it has lived on in new contexts from stage shows to the classroom. The program is now the world’s longest running science fiction series.

Editors: Dr. Daniel Farr, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Kennesaw State University (dfarr4@kennesaw.edu) Dr. Melanie D. Holm, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (mdholm@iup.edu) Project Contact email : GrimmCollection@gmail.com

A volume of scholarly essays to be collected under the title: Bitch or Badass: Anti-heroines of Contemporary Literary Media, Television, and Cinema (working title) Edited by Melanie A. Haas (Texas Woman’s University ) and N. A. Pierce (Old Dominion University)

Sherry Ginn and Michael G. Cornelius, editors of the forthcoming Serializing the Apocalypse: Essays on the Never-Ending End of the World , announce their intent to publish a new collection of essays about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Although this series ended twenty years ago this year, a stand-alone examination of the series has not been published to date.

Call for Chapters: American Television in the Trump Era Editor: Karen McNally Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 30 June 2019 Donald Trump’s emergence in the field of American politics has had an undeniable and wide-ranging impact on contemporary American television.

Riverdale : a comic book turned hit TV show, a comic strip turned murder mystery, a town that is both nowhere and everywhere.