Call for Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’ Extended deadline: 20 ^th August 2018.

Call for papers for collected volume Short Circuit: Brevity and the short form in serial television As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age” of television, the accent has increasingly been placed on the excess inherent in the form, the temptation to “binge-watch” a single fiction over several hours, or the proliferation of narratives and storylines in American television’s “endless present” (which, unlike its British

Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy.

Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of essays that examine positive, healthy, and accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media.

There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s most popular shows, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been medical in focus, from hospital-set dramas like ER to reality TV shows and docudramas like One Born Every Minute . This fascination with doctors, hospitals and bodies is also shared by period drama television, but scholarship has paid little attention to this

CFP:  (UPDATE) Children, Youth, and International Television Calls for submissions to a collection that critically examines programs that prominently feature children in international (i.e. non-American) television. Programs may include those targeted to children, or those programs targeted to adults but contain significant child characters.

With his signature bullwhip and fedora, the familiar sounds of his orchestral anthem, and his eventful explorations into the arcana of world religions, Indiana Jones – archeologist, adventurer, and ophidiophobe – has become one of the most recognizable heroes of the silver screen.

Prisoner and Wentworth Edited Book: Chapter Proposals due 21 May 2018 We invite proposals for chapters for an edited collection called Wentworth is the New Prisoner (working title), which is developing in the wake of a successful conference of the same name held in Melbourne in April 2018. We already have interest from publishers.

Following successful symposia on Interiors and Film in New York and Kingston, UK, Professor Pat Kirkham and Kingston University’s Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC: Director Professor Penny Sparke) call for proposals for articles and chapters for two publications. The first is a book that Bloomsbury will publish (Rebecca Barden and her team will be guiding the process at the publishing end).

Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2 ). Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically.