The CW network offers a compelling coming of age story reflective of its changing demographic. In 2006, the network was launched as a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. Entertainment and next generation to The WB and UPN (1995-2006), which followed Fox’s success and shift in television broadcasting away from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and toward young viewers.

The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal Mai is seeking contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai/ is a new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai Zetterling.

The International Journal of James Bond Studies is an academic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on all aspects of Ian Fleming’s James Bond franchise.

We seek proposals for a small number of original essays to include in Hands On History (eds. John Ellis and Nick Hall), an edited collection focusing on practical and embodied approaches to the history of media technology. The collection explores the relevance of the new methodology of hands on history to the study of media.

The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium Saturday, 30 September, 2017 Film Studies @ Worcester Jenny Lind Building, University of Worcester Despite being written over 35 years ago, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a totalitarian New England where fertile women are kept prisoner in reproductive servitude, has been making […]

Friday 10 November 2017 – Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne Since its first programmes aired in 1984, Canal+ has played a role in shaping not just the paysage audiovisuel français but also French society, culture, politics and economics in many significant ways.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7 JULY 2017 ECREA Television Studies Conference 2017 The Future of European Television: Between Transnationalism and Euroscepticism From 15-11-2017 To 17-11-2017 Facultad de ciencias de la Comunicación Málaga Organized by the ECREA Television Studies section and the University of Málaga (Spain), in collaboration with “Production and circulation of media contents” section of […]

Donald Trump’s now infamous phrase ‘such a nasty woman’, uttered about his then rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates, was rudely used to patronise and belittle Clinton, who is known for being a strong, independent (and feminist) politician. In reality, Trump is not the only figure to characterise today’s women in this manner.

Deadline: September 1st 2017 As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age”, Time in Television Narrative : Exploring Temporality in Twenty – First – Century (2012) reminds us however that time is at the very center of the television narrative, and that television differs from its cinematic equivalent notably by its incremental approach to storytelling.

CFP: Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University Childhood and youth are always contested notions, but perhaps nowhere more than in popular culture.