2020-2021

Conference topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Multimodal discourses in DTVS.
• The function of dialogue and other forms of narrative in DTVS.
• Characterisation. Innovations and stereotyping through characters’ unique discourse.
• Identity politics based on race, ethnicity, religion, age, class, or species in DTVS.
• Gender and sexuality in DTVS. The use of DTVS as an innovative space for raising awareness about social inequality
• Sexual and gender-based politics. Denunciation of patriarchal discourses, feminist utopias and dystopias.
• Posthuman, transhuman, biotechnological and ecocritical discourses in DTVS: the overcoming of humanism and the blurring of the boundaries between the human, the technological and the animal.
• From Ageing to Disability Studies in DTVS: portrayals of old age, illness, disease, and the handicapped subject.
• Screen adaptations. Conventional vs. experimental structures and narrative plots in DTVS.
• Fandom-related discourses and industries.