Following the conferences devoted to US network series produced from the 1950s to the 1970s (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, May 2018), during the 1980s (UPVM, February 2019) or the 1990s (UPVM, February 2020), this conference will focus on network series of the following decade: 2000-2010.

In an interview about the end of the last millennium, James Ballard argued that Science Fiction (SF) had created the greatest popular literature of the 20th century. The imagery that we saw in the cinema, television, advertising and other media was the most powerful imagery produced in the last hundred years. By the end of the century, the genre had done its job and it was dead.

Though not well-studied academically,[1] the NBC series Heroes (2006-2010; 2015) is notable for many reasons.

Global Perspectives on Soccer and the Media and Entertainment Industry Floribert Patrick C. Endong (Editor) University of Dschang, Cameroon Introduction Over the years, the political significance of football in the world has tremendously grown.

Call for Papers: ‘When the Shadow Flickers: The Moving Image in Contemporary Chinese Art’ Volume 12, Issue 1, Spring 2025, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art A Special Issue co-edited by Yang Panpan and Jiang Jiehong At a time when the moving image has become a ubiquitous presence in museums and galleries in China and the Sinophone world, the studies of the moving image in the sphere of contemporary Chinese art remain surprisingly scarce.

When: Tue 13 June 2024, 10am-4pm Where: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (in person) Since the publication of Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts (Meir 2014), The New Scottish Cinema (Murray 2015) and Directory of World Cinema: Scotland (Nowlan and Finc 2015) there has been a notable absence of critical writing on Scottish Film and Television.

Media Business Models: Trends & Challenges Second International Conference (Hybrid) British University in Egypt, Cairo / Online, 16th &

2024 has started with a bang for TV. Shows like The Traitors (BBC1) and Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV) have had around 10 million people tuning in to each episode, reminding us of the social relevance and transformative power of the medium.

When writing my dissertation, these many years ago, I would often have some sort of disaster film on in the background. This is not so much because I enjoy listening to actors screaming violations of the laws of basic physics, geology and other STEM fields at the top of their lungs (though I do)[1] but because I tend to think of the genre as dark, absurdist comedy.

19-20 September 2024 The University of Warwick Keynote Speakers Dr. Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow) Dr. Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) The phenomenon of economic migration has millennia-old roots.