The past three decades have seen a remarkable flourishing of documentary film in Russia: the cohort of documentary “masters” who came to prominence in the 1990s, such as Vitaly Mansky, Viktor Kossakovsky, and Sergei Loznitsa have been joined by a new generation of filmmakers, including Askold Kurov, Beata Bubenets, and Alina Rudnitskaya, to name but a few.
When: May 11th – 14th 2021 Where: Online Keynote Speakers: Prof Richard Dyer (King’s College London) and Dr Abigail De Kosnik (UC Berkley) Institution: The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh This conference aims to examine how LGBTQ representation has changed through time, continues to evolve in the present, and what […]
Representation of queer identities in twenty-first century popular television has undergone massive shifts in the last decade. Whilst queer representation has formed part of the bedrock of reality television, queer representation in scripted television has received less scholarly attention. Thus, scripted television will be the focus of this special issue of Queer Studies in Media &
Genre/Nostalgia 2021: An online film and television symposium on Wednesday 6 January 2021 Keynote speaker: Dr Kate Egan, Northumbria University: ‘Nostalgia for British Comedy’s Past: Monty Python, the 1960s and 1970s, and Fan Memories.’ Film and TV genres and nostalgia have long been intertwined. Fundamentally, both are rooted in the practice of creatively recycling and adapting modes of the past;
A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference in March 2021, fully online, hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada, coordinated by the SFU Center for Educational Excellence (CEE), and co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association (IGA) and others Plenary Speakers Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Mark Deggan,
Edited by Monica Dall’Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper To talk about the crime genre—as opposed to detective or spy or noir fiction—is to recognise the comprehensiveness of a category that speaks to and contains multiple sub-genres and forms (Ascari, 2007). In this volume, we want to uncover the ways in which the crime genre, in all of its multiple guises, forms and media/transmedia developments, has
The entertainment industries create the most widely circulated popular images of children and childhood, and yet the role of children in celebrity studies warrants further study.
In times of “post-truth”, “fake news”, and “alternative facts,” new forms of media and communicative strategies challenge our understanding of how we know something to be true. Most of our knowledge of the world depends on our trust of a reliable source and on the expectations of credibility in different media types, such as newspapers, encyclopædias, novels, documentary and essay films, and social media.
Journal: The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture Special Issue: Nostalgia and Popular Culture
Exchanges, in association with Dr Filippo Cervelli (SOAS) and Dr Benjamin Schaper (University of Oxford), is delighted to announce the latest opportunity to contribute to a special issue of Exchanges, combined with a workshop event. The full text of the call is available online.