film and television

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) 2025

Graduate Conference of the Dept. of English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Binghamton University, New York

Conference theme: (Re)Placement

Date: March 29, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naima Mohammadi (University of Pittsburgh)

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

 I must listen to the birds

 and in order to hear the birds

 the warplanes must be silent.

– Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Poet 

Call for Papers

Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Edith Wharton is regularly the question or answer on Jeopardy! these days. She’s also the heroine of a 2024 murder mystery by Mariah Fredericks. The indie band The Magnetic Fields penned a love-letter to the “masterpiece of catastrophic love” that is Wharton’s 1911 Ethan Frome, and a diverse range of voices cite Wharton as an influence or a favorite: Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beth Nguyen, and Francis Ford Coppola—whose adaptation of The Glimpses of the Moon is currently underway. A novel that, in fact, also inspired Tavi Gevinson’s 2024 audio series.

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.

Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.

Murder Media Symposium

Call For Papers:

Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.

The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW:

Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall

Deadline for Submission: ASAP

We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.

Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.

Collection details:

Producer, director, and screenwriter Gregg Araki is a pivotal figure in independent film, known for his distinctive style and contributions to New Queer Cinema. Despite his inclusion in such cinematic movement thanks to The Living End (1992), and his rise to fame with the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993-1997), Araki's explorations of a more mainstream style and his incursions in television directing have garnered little critical and academic attention, except for his 2004 adaptation of the novel Mysterious Skin and his win of the first ever Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm in 2010 for his film Kaboom.

Banaras Hindu University 

Two day National Seminar 

Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. To this end, the symposium will focus on indigenous, black, and diaspora communities seen through their visual production, with the presumption that the vernacular representations of everyday life can provide substantial insights into evolving minority identities.

Call for Book Chapters for an Edited Volume

Perfect Adaptations.

Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)Between Remake, Translation, Adaptation and Tradaptation

Co-Editors: Gianluca Fantoni and Armando Rotondi

Call for Papers

Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.

The conference will take place at Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès on 13 May 2025. Please send your proposals, along with a summary of up to 300 words and a brief bio-bibliographical note, by January 31, 2025 to anita.jorge@univ-tlse2.fr, Zachary.baque@univ-tlse2.fr and Vincent.souladie@univ-tlse2.fr. In 1932, referring to the scripts submitted to him by young members of the British documentary school, John Grierson wrote: “Berlin [Walter Ruttmann, 1927] still excites the mind of the young, and the symphony form is still their most popular persuasion.

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

“War & Culture”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Extended proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024