OLIVER: Can you imagine? Once upon a time, typewriters were made in Great Britain. NORMA MOODY: Imagine typewriters. Oliver’s Travels: Looking for Aristotle by Alan Plater   Those of you who have read some of my previous pre-Christmas offerings will be aware that one of the things that I associate with this time of year is the prospect of a new television soundtrack.

The 32nd International Screen Studies Conference, organised by the journal Screen , will be held in Glasgow from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July 2023. Our keynote speakers will be: Professor Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS University of London Professor Jennifer Fay, Vanderbilt University Professor Kara Keeling, University of Southern California Screen editors Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street welcome proposals for

Locating Media Industries: Cities, Spaces, Places  A Three-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference King’s College London Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG 19-21 June 2023 Co-organisers: Professor Paul McDonald, Kings College London;

Plenary speakers: Professor Murray Pittock, Bradley Professor and Pro Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow, ‘History and Memory at Culloden’ Additional Speakers TBC Outlander (Starz, 2014-) is a major US television series based on the historical fantasy novels of Diana Gabaldon, combining time travel with 18th-century Scottish politics and post-war British and American culture.

Co-hosted by the PANCOPOP research team &

So, it’s been a bit quiet here of late.[1] I thought I’d do a quick follow up of the rest of the things we’d started watching, not got round to finishing, weren’t enjoying and whatnot or so on. And I need to say that I started writing this a wee while ago and that life got in the way of this. Right what do you need to know about the family?

Source: BBC Revisiting the British New Wave, The University of Sheffield, April 20th, 2023 Supported by the British Association of Film and Television and Screen Studies, and the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film 2023 will see Lindsay Anderson’s centenary, and the 60th anniversaries of This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson, 1963) and Billy Liar (John Schlesinger, 1963), the two films that marked the

Representing The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real – Symposium Friday 28th April 2023 Venue: Glasgow Caledonian University Deadline for abstracts: 16th December 2022 Please consider submitting a paper or roundtable proposal for our one-day symposium to be held at Glasgow Caledonian University focused upon ‘The Body: Contemporary Media Discourse and The Real’. Representations of the body in mass media inevitably evoke issues and

Media Imaginaries 2023, International Symposium at Lund University, Sweden Department of Communication and Media – Thursday, 16 March 2023 Organisers Annette Hill, Hario Priambodho, Cheryl Fung and Martin Lundqvist – MKV Lund University Media imaginaries are shape shifters. We can see imaginaries as make believe, as thinking outside the box, and as social practices.

The sudden loss of Tim Beddows, Managing Director and founder of Network Distributing Limited at the age of only 59 is a terrible, sobering shock that I’m still attempting to process even after a week or more.