film and television

We invite proposals for an edited collection of essays on Adaptation and the work of Terry Pratchett. The book proposal will be submitted to Palgrave Macmillan or Bloomsbury Academic’s Perspectives on Fantasy series in the Spring of 2026. 

Dear colleagues,

Following the roundtable La (r)évolution sera queer: Queer Resistance in the French and Francophone World which took place at NeMLA in March 2025, we decided to put together an edited collection of essays addressing the diverse, multifaceted, and malleable concept of queerness and its revolutionary and revolutionizing aspects. We're looking for scholars interested in exploring the queer as a “floating signifier”  (Bernini, Lorenzo. Queer Theories: an Introduction : From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020) and “queering” as an action, an exploration, and a process. 

We seek submissions for a Critical Insights volume, under contract with Salem Press, exploring the evolving role of sidekicks across literary and popular culture. From Sancho Panza and Don Quixote to Robin and Batman; Queequeg and Ishmael to Patrick and SpongeBob; John Watson and Sherlock Holmes to Ethel and Lucy; Jim and Huck to Goose and Maverick—sidekicks have often served as more than mere comic relief or supporting characters. They shape plot, provide emotional resonance, sharpen protagonists’ identities, and offer subversive alternatives to mainstream narratives. Some of the sidekicks far outshine their counterparts.

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026—The Italian South and Southern (Re)generation 

Please consider submitting an abstract for NeMLA 2026--Italian Food as (Re) Generation

The conference will take place in Pittsburg, PA, from March 5-March 8, 2026. The deadline for abstracts is September 30th, 2025.

Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, Re-Generation, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or foodway as the locus of creation and re-creation invites us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian, Italian American, and/or wider contexts of the Italian Diaspora.

La historia del continente latinoamericano ha estado marcada por numerosas manifestaciones de violencia, guerras, dictaduras, revoluciones y exilios. Estos fenómenos han dejado una honda marca en las narrativas producidas en el continente, en especial a lo largo de los siglos XX y XXI. Una de las formas más visibles de estas huellas es la del miedo que deja impreso en el panorama afectivo de los individuos y ciudadanos. Este miedo que aparece de maneras tan diversas como frecuentes en la literatura del continente, no obstante, no ha recibido la suficiente atención por parte de la crítica.

Abstract

This session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 2025) annual conference explores the relationship between queer and trans cultural productions and the politics of censorship and obscenity.

Description

PAMLA: A Gathering of Horrors, Terrors, and Monstrosities Panel, 11/20/25-11/23/25, San Francisco

Please direct any general inquiries to Erica Tortolani at etort.phd@gmail.com.  

Call for Papers: Studies in Comics

Special Issue: ‘Disney Across the Globe’

Special Issue Editors:

Edited by Katja Kontturi (University of Jyväskylä)

katja.j.kontturi@jyu.fi

Eva Van de Wiele (University of Ghent and Antwerp)

eva.vandewiele@ugent.be 

Call for Papers: Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Special Issue: ‘The Tyranny of Truth: The Cinema of Gillo Pontecorvo’

CFP for a guest-edited issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies

Guest-editor Fabio Pezzetti Tonion

Museo Nazionale del Cinema

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-italian-cinema-media-studies#call-for-papers

The 2025 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 9th, to Saturday, October 11th, 2025.

Virtual sessions will take place via Zoom throughout the day on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Registration will open up in mid-July. 

The Storytelling & Narrative area explores the multifaceted nature and role of storytelling and narrative. We invite submissions from all theoretical and methodological perspectives. Submissions should have a connection to how storytelling and narrative plays a role in popular culture including, but not limited to, topics such as:

Accent: Music and Sound in Australian Cinema

The University of Western Australia (UWA) Conservatorium of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for a conference on sound and music in Australian cinema. The conference will be held on the 29th-30th November 2025 at UWA. This event will bring together scholars, practitioners, filmmakers, and sound/musicology theorists to interrogate the ways in which Australian cinema’s soundscapes serve as sites for political, historical, and cultural theorisation.

Possible papers may explore, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers

Trans Joy in Latin American Cinema

Joy is a fundamental element of human life, yet its depiction in media and academic discourse— especially in relation to marginalized communities—remains limited. Representations of the trans* community, in particular, often center narratives of exclusion, violence, and trauma. As Shuster and Westbrook (2022) note, this tendency reflects a broader “joy deficit” in the sociological study of marginalized people, overshadowing the transformative power of joy and solidarity.