In addition to a sizeable MHSoC contingent at this year’s SCMS conference (post coming soon), this term our graduate students will also be presenting their works at conferences all over Canada and the US! Check out brief descriptions of their talks below. Cinema and Television: A Graduate Colloquium University of Toronto, February 8-9, 2013 Jesse Balzer – “Raw Twitter: WWE and Television Spectatorship” Jesse’s presentation will focus on the ways in which Twitter has been used

Appel à contribution pour la revue Télévision, n°5, La télévision et les autres médias Les liens entre la télévision et les autres médias ont toujours existé, et ils semblent aujourd’hui encore plus resserrés. Qu’il s’agisse de formats empruntés à la radio ou au cinéma, ou encore de l’expansion des discours sur la télévision dans les autres médias, ce numéro se propose d’explorer les liens qui se tissent entre la télévision et les autres médias, à partir de plusieurs pistes :

There are many analogies between early cinema and what we might call early television. Television’s early international growth mirrored that of early cinema. Like cinema, television was born simultaneously in a number of countries just a few years apart. A breath of utopia animated television, leading artists to try their hand at working in the new medium. One of them was the master of suspense himself, who with his series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965) took pleasure i