DWFTH 5 revised for 2021: New call for papers–‘Histories of Women in Film and Television: Then and Now.’ A Hybrid Conference: July 10 – 11, 2021 (virtual and on-campus at Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland) Supported by Women’s Film & Television History Network, this call for papers is made in collaboration with ‘Women and the BBC’, a special themed issue of Critical Studies in Television.
Issue edited by Fanny Beuré and Jules Sandeau This issue of TV/Series will focus on the relationship between stars and TV series within diverse cultural and historical contexts.
In 2022, one hundred years will have passed since the formation of the British Broadcasting Company, later to become the pioneering public service broadcaster best known as the BBC. The BBC has had an enormous impact on television culture in its first one hundred years, providing a blueprint for independent publicly funded broadcasting.
Guest editors: Katharina Niemeyer (University of Québec in Montréal) Magali Uhl (University of Québec in Montréal) Deadline for full proposals: 15th November 2020 (for publication in May 2021). What place does or could Jean Baudrillard occupy in media studies, visual studies, and art theory today?
The body on the screen and the body of the screen have always formed a compelling and productive pairing. From apparatus theory to production and exhibition histories, these two conceptualizations of cinematic bodies remain valuable avenues for reflecting on the use of images, their visibility, materiality, and presentation.
International coproduction, which Michelle Hilmes (2014:10) defines as “a partnership between two or more different national production entities” located in different countries, is exerting a notable influence on the creation of new high-end TV dramas produced outside the US. As ‘peak TV’ continues to expand the annual volume of US-produced TV fiction to unprecedented levels (Koblin 2020), continuing audience demand for distinctive original
Open Philosophy invites submissions for the topical issue “Ethics and Politics of TV Series,” edited by Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, ERC DEMOSERIES), prepared in collaboration with the European Research Council project DEMOSERIES. TV series are increasingly recognised in current research.
This is a reminder that the Learning on Screen (British Universities & Colleges Film and Video Council) termly magazine, ViewFinder is currently open for submission – and the Autumn term 2020 theme is HOME. We are inviting Professors, Academics, Research Students and Practitioners to send pitches and proposals to ViewFinder Magazine.
The current media ecology places more emphasis than ever on the role of nonfiction media in the creation and obfuscation of “truth.” Documentary theory has probed the dialectical relationship between the documentary impulse to represent reality and the sometimes-argued impossibility of media to do just that (Barnouw 1993; Bruzzi 2000; Nichols 2001;
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media http://www.alphavillejournal.com CFP: Issue 24: Fostering Diversity on and off ScreenAn Australian Screen Production, Education &