*apologies for cross-posting* Dear Colleagues, It is our pleasure to announce the publication of Special Issue 19.1, “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: A Critical Exploration of *Joker,*” guest edited *by Sean Redmond* and featuring articles by *Caroline Bainbridge*; *Jeffrey Brown*; *Amanda Howell*; *Jesús Jiménez-Varea*, *Alberto Hermida, and Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla*; *Misha Kavka*; *Mark Kerins*; *Ernest Mathijs*; *Sean Redmond*; and *Merlin Seller*. Please see the Table of Contents for a complete list of articles and abstracts: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/current Please also enjoy the recent roundtable discussion conducted by several of the contributors and featured on the NRFTS blog: https://nrftsjournal.org/white-riot-a-joker-roundtable/ The new issue also features the following reviews of recent publications: *The Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics*, edited by Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis (Rutgers University Press, 2019) *Reviewed by Vinodh Venkatesh* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2021.1872278 *Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11*, by Glen Donnar (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) *Reviewed by Paul Doro* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2021.1872276 *Mental Disorders in Popular Film: How Hollywood Uses, Shames, and Obscures Mental Diversity*, by Erin Heath (Lexington Books, 2019) *Reviewed by Fiona Gregory* https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17400309.2021.1872277 We are also delighted to announce that the winner of the second annual TV SIG Graduate Student Essay Contest is *Peter Johnson (Boston University)*. The prize-winning essay, “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Spatial and Industrial Logics of Home Fitness Technologies,” will be published in our Winter 2021 issue. Two additional outstanding candidates were recognized as finalists: *Marie Sandoz (Université de Lausanne)* for the essay “The Big Ear of Leuk (1974-2020): The Media History of a Large Technical Infrastructure,” and *Cameron Lynn Brown (University of Iowa)* for the essay “'My job is to live my life, not save yours': Queer Emotional Labor, Audiences, and Netflix’s *Queer Eye*.” Congratulations to our three awardees, and thank you to all those who submitted and to our co-sponsors the Television Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Also over on the *NRFTS* Blog, we’re featuring the following new content which we hope will be of interest: Netflix, HBO Nordic, and ‘Glocalized’ TV Series: The View from Sweden by *Joel Frykholm* https://nrftsjournal.org/netflix-hbo-nordic-and-glocalized-tv-series-the-view-from-sweden/ Casting Closets, Casting Spells: An Interview with *Alfred L. Martin Jr. & Andrew J. Owens* https://nrftsjournal.org/casting-closets-casting-spells/ Women’s History Month Reading List https://nrftsjournal.org/womens-history-month-reading-list/ Please bookmark our URL https://nrftsjournal.org/, and we welcome proposals for promotional collaborations, reviews, interviews, commentaries, pedagogical musings… To help spread the word, and for latest news and promotions, please follow us on Twitter @NRFTSJournal <https://twitter.com/NRFTSJournal> and Instagram @nrftsjournal <https://www.instagram.com/nrftsjournal/>. We welcome submissions through our website <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/current>, where guidelines for authors can be found. Given our robust rate of submission, we have recently converted to an Online First model to expedite the time to publication for accepted articles. Kind regards, Maria San Filippo Editor -- *New Review of Film and Television Studies <https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/current>* *NRFTS* Blog <https://nrftsjournal.org/> * <http://www.mariasanfilippo.net>[image: https://twitter.com/cinemariasf] <https://twitter.com/NRFTSJournal> <https://www.instagram.com/nrftsjournal/>* ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the College of Communication and Information Sciences, the University of Alabama: https://cis.ua.edu