War & Media Studies

Quick roundup of three new titles at the intersection of war and media studies: Redrobe, Karen. 2025. Undead: (Inter)(in)animation, Feminisms, and the Art ofWar. University of California Press. From University […]

~~SUMMER NETWORKING MEETING UPDATE~~ Dear WMS Members! We hosted a virtual networking meeting on Friday, July 28. And, though sparsely attended (it is summer after all), we had some productive […]

Framing the Dead to Expose the Past: Catalyzing Postmemory in Almodóvar’s Bad Education (2004) and Parallel Mothers (2021)   On a movie set, a fratricidal brother hyperventilates after acting a […]

Dear WMS Colleagues! Please review this compelling CFP from our partner journal Media, War and Conflict:   REIMAGINING THE FIELD OF MEDIA, WAR AND CONFLICT ICA Pre-conference Call For Papers: Media, […]

 Congratulations to co-chair Cortland Rankin on Routledge publishing his first monograph! Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York Check out the link: https://www.routledge.com/Decline-and-Reimagination-in-Cinematic-New-York/Rankin/p/book/9781032246413 Book Summary: Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic […]

Meet your new team!   Several SIG members have agreed to take over as co-Chairs and as our graduate student assistant for the 2022 to 2025 term.   They were […]

It is with enormous sadness and heavy hearts that the War and Media Studies SIG shares the news of Eileen Rositzka’s passing. Many of you will no doubt have read […]

Sorry we haven’t had a review essay in a while, but I did notice that the Winter 2020 edition of JCMS included a review essay of two recent publications in […]