on the media in war and war in the media
~~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 discussions we wanted to share. Kate McClancy is potentially interested in putting together a panel on the Barbenheimer phenomenon, perhaps […]
Read moreFraming 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 scene presenting just one imagined variation of his brother’s murder. In a maternity ward, two women—whose lives are haunted by […]
Read moreDear 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, War and Conflict Journal Conference Abstracts, indicating which type of participation is requested (paper or poster), should be emailed to Katy […]
Read moreCongratulations 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 New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban […]
Read moreMeet 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 elected by attending members during our zoom business meeting on March 25, 2022, and confirmed through a group-wide vote. […]
Read moreIt 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 the moving tribute to Eileen on the Cinepoetics site; we want to offer another tribute to her to honour the […]
Read moreSorry 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 War and Media Studies. Rather than reprint them here and potentially violate copyright, I’ll just point you to the relevant […]
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