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Call for Abstracts: “Broadcasting health and disease. Bodies, markets and television, 1950s-1980s” @Wellcome Trust, Feb 19-21, 2018. Deadline: Nov 1, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Date: 19-21 February 2018 Location: Wellcome Trust, 215 Euston Road, London, UK The conference is organized by the

ERC funded research group BodyCapital

, and hosted by

Wellcome Collection

. Throughout the age of television health and body-related subjects have been presented and diffused into the public sphere via a multitude of forms, ranging from short films in health education programmes to school television, from professional
On the future of leadership
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

A guest blog post by Catherine Russ

We recognise this is an era of radical and disruptive change in every facet of society. We wrestle with our tried and tested ways of working in the past so that they stay relevant in an increasingly complex present. Where we seek passion and purpose, work remains, more often than not, stress and drudgery. And that is consistent wherever people are on the pyramid.
MENTAL HEALTH — ON TV AND IN HE
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Having recently returned to work after several weeks off work because of anxiety and clinical depression, it seems appropriate to write about a ‘trending’ topic: mental health, mental illness, its representations in popular media, and how all of these affect staff and students in universities. I am referring here to my own experience working in a UK institution of HE but I’m sure some aspects of the situation apply elsewhere.
THE GAME OF THRONES RAPE DEBATE
Authors: Proctor William
Published: November 2024

The sixth episode of the recent season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, ‘Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,’ ended with Ramsay Bolton raping his new bride, Sansa Stark, as Theon Greyjoy/ Reek is forced to watch.
THE RACHEL: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDIUM SPECIFICITY TO JENNIFER ANISTON’S STAR PERSONA
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

Last summer, I gave a paper on the shifting star persona of Jennifer Aniston at the Console-ing Passions conference, focusing predominantly on the significance of postfeminist discourses of ageing to the construction of Aniston’s star image in the popular press.
WHY BRITISH QUALITY DRAMA FRUSTRATES ME NO END (AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE US STUFF)
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

I am currently suffering from a massive dilemma. The last episode of

Undercover

(BBC, 2016) is sitting on BOB waiting for me to watch it and I just don’t dare to. Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was a terrific drama: the pleasure of getting to watch Adrian Lester and Sophie Okonedo in fully fleshed-out parts was something that television doesn’t afford us often.
VIEWER REVERTIGO
Authors: Baluch Jamila
Published: November 2024

Reruns of television series have long been an integral part of the television market. Even though reruns have taken on different forms over the past decades – from television re-broadcasts to DVD box sets to online platforms such as Netflix – the underlying principle of rewatching familiar television content has remained the same.
Call for Papers: “War and Trauma in Past and Present” conference, 9-11 March 2018, Bamberg, Germany. Deadline: 29 Sept 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Deadline: 29 Sept 2017 The Bamberg Graduate School of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies (BaGraLCM), in cooperation with the departments of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Bamberg, is hosting an interdisciplinary conference on war, trauma, and disease in past and present from March 9 to March 11, 2018.
CFP: Exploring Boundaries in Film and Television, Wednesday 14 June 2017, CATH Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Iain Smith, Lecturer at King’s College London The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its sixth annual postgraduate conference. Cinema and television have always been media that operate on the boundaries of social, technological and artistic change.
CfP: “Comics and Authorship”. Deadline: Aug 31, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The comic, recently legitimized through the graphic novel phenomenon while remaining anchored in popular culture, can provide unique insights into issues surrounding authorship. Although comics scholarship has explored autobiographical comics and the strategies for self-fashioning of individual canonized comics artists and writers, the complex and mutating concept of comic book authorship remains by and large overlooked.
CfP: Celebrity Studies Journal, Special Issue: “Where is the Star?”. Deadline: Nov 3, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Where is the Star?: Special Issue of Celebrity Studies Journal (eds. Martin Shingler and Lindsay Sternberg)* The Celebrity Studies Journal is planning a special issue on film stars and stardom, co-edited by Martin Shingler and Lindsay Steenberg.
EVERYBODY NEEDS GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

Liz Giuffre’s earlier blog ‘From Ramsay Street, With Love’ starts with an apology and ends with an assurance that Australians know that long-running soap

Neighbours

is ‘a bit embarrassing and a bit backward’. As a Scottish fan of the soap, I read her blog with fascination.
DEAR AUNTIE … AAAAAAARGGGGHHHH! OR WHY WE MIGHT ALL NEED A WAKE-UP CALL
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

In case you had missed it: Scotland voted no. Marginally, but they did. For some of us who were watching from afar, this came as a massive shock, largely because the politically outspoken world we had engaged with (via Twitter, Facebook and blog pages such as

Wings over Scotland

and

Bella Caledonia

) seemed at least to be 80% on the yes side.
#EveryoneMicrosoft
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Incoming CEO Satya Nadella places enhanced learning capability at the top of Microsoft’s priorities, right after its customers: This statement reads to me like a subtle balance of power between HR-driven approaches (job mobility) and new ways of doing new things in a knowledge-driven company (never mind that the word ‘knowledge’ does not appear in the message). Some very savvy folks at Microsoft have already, for example, mainstreamed
CfP: The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 83 – Politics of Space and Place. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

At the outset of

Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

, Yi-Fu Tuan observes, “Space and place are basic components of the lived world; we take them for granted. When we think about them, however, they may assume unexpected meanings and raise questions we have not thought to ask.” Power relations are often negotiated through space and embedded in place, and these dynamics resonate through and within media.
AUSTRALIAN PIRATES vs INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT: AN UPDATE FROM THE HIGH SEAS
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Earlier this year Louie CK told us that “The Whole Country of Australia Rips TV”, and it’s a problem that our Government is trying to do something about.
“I WILL BE YOUR TREASURE, I’M WAITING FOR YOU”: THE PLEASURES OF DETECTORISTS
Authors: Wickham Phil
Published: November 2024

At the end of the year BBC4 will be screening the third and final series of

Detectorists

(BBC/Channel X 2013 -), the sitcom written, directed by and starring Mackenzie Crook about a group of metal detector enthusiasts (‘detectorists’) in East Anglia.
CfP: VIEW Journal “Using Television’s Material Heritage”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The medium of television is responsible for a huge accumulation of redundant objects: old TV sets and VTRs (and the tables to put them on), superseded production equipment and software, videotape and film that is no longer useable. This raises various questions, from practical to historiographical and methodological ones.

What are we to do with this accumulation of objects, many of which are not easily recycled?
A TALE OF TWO TAPINGS
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

During a recent trip to New York City my TV nerd colleague and I attended two show tapings. If you never have done this, I can highly recommend it – the TV lover’s equivalent of looking inside someone’s bathroom cabinet to see what makes them tick. Not that I’ve ever done that last thing – seriously- honestly. Well, maybe.
CONFERENCE REPORT: THEATRE AND TELEVISION: ADAPTATION, PRODUCTION, PERFORMANCE
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

University of Westminster at Alexandra Palace, 19-20 February 2015

Few forms of TV drama have historically been more neglected within television studies than the adapted stage play.
Call for Chapters: Children and Popular Culture (Deadline: December 1, 2017)
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CFP: Global Studies of Childhood Special Issue: Children and Popular Culture Guest Editor: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University Childhood and youth are always contested notions, but perhaps nowhere more than in popular culture.
CfP: Slayage Special Issue “Let’s Go to Work: The Legacy of Angel”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

On October 5th 1999, the first episode of Angel – the spin-off to Buffy the Vampire Slayer – aired on the WB.  The television show ran for five seasons and ended with a bang – or at least with a dragon – on May 19th 2004.
OPIOID-INDUCED CONSTIPATION, JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE, TV COMMERCIALS, CHRONIC LOWER BACK PAIN, AND ME
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

I’m back living in the US, courtesy of five months researching with the Latin American studies folks at Tulane U in New Orleans. After the banal surveillance and corporate vocabulary of English higher education, it’s an incredible tonic to be in a genuinely intellectual and largely progressive environment.
CfP: Media Industries special section ‘Global Internet Television’. Deadline: Oct 1, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Internet Television – A Media Industries special section Issue 13, September 2018 – http://www.mediaindustriesjournal.org Editors: Ramon Lobato, RMIT University – ramon.lobato@rmit.edu.au Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan – lotz@umich.edu Julian Thomas, RMIT University – julian.thomas@rmit.edu.au In recent years major over-the-top subscription services including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have been expanding into
CfP: “CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS – International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism” July 11-13, 2018 @ Bournemouth University (UK). Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism July 11-13, 2018 Bournemouth University, Faculty of Media and Communication, Poole, UK Bournemouth University is now accepting proposals for Console-ing Passions 2018. Deadline for submissions: 23.59 (Greenwich mean time) 15 January 2018.
THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE – CELEBRITY? – TELEVISION, DISCOURSE, PARTICIPATION
Authors: Palatinus David Levente
Published: November 2024

NB- Post may contain spoilers regarding

Game of Thrones

Season 4 Over the past few weeks, CST Online has seen a number of posts discussing the nature (I might say, ethos) of television studies. The question has been addressed from multiple perspectives;
Encourage collaboration and team learning
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Our areas of work are siloed due to limited resources and time, the huge scope of our global mandate, the high level of specialization required, and internal politics. Collaboration and learning as a team (beyond the unit level) requires leadership and concerted effort. It is hard to sustain over time. Yet, to collaborate we build, sustain and renew many individual relationships based on trust and need.
CfP: Short (and sweet?): The short form in television. One-day symposium, Université de Bourgogne, November 27, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Deadline: September 1st 2017

As critics, creators and academics alike herald the new “Golden Age”,

Time in Television Narrative

:

Exploring Temporality in Twenty

–

First

–

Century (2012)

reminds us however that time is at the very center of the television narrative, and that television differs from its cinematic equivalent notably by its incremental approach to storytelling.
ADVENTURES IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR…
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

… don’t worry; you’re still doing better than most modern undergraduates. Welcome back everyone – and what better way to start the academic year than with a good read? After what seems (to me) like an eternity, my first book –

The Changing Spaces of Television Acting

– was at last published at the end of August, and I have since been busily promoting it via whatever means possible.
CfP: 9th conference of the Association for the Research on the Fantastic: “Techniques of the Fantastic”. Sept 6-8, 2018 @ University of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland). Deadline: Feb 28, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Techniques of the Fantastic

Ninth annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung September 6th – 8th, 2018 at the University of Freiburg/Fribourg (Switzerland) The techniques of the fantastic are primarily associated to futuristic stories and science fiction, in which mankind designs its world under utopic or dystopic conditions.
ROOTS (HISTORY, 2016) VERSUS ROOTS (ABC, 1977)
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

I finally got around to watching the new version of

Roots

(if you haven’t seen it yet, episodes 2-4 are still available on the IPlayer). The series, even in its new version, still feels monumental: it evidences just how rare it still is to see history told from any other point of view than that of a white, heterosexual man. Unfortunately, despite this feeling of observing television history, I also found myself being quite disappointed.
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

It is perhaps a little cheeky to borrow a blog title from Robert Graves’ autobiography, but after all the complimentary things I’ve said about

I, Claudius

over the years, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind. This will be a relatively short piece, as I am currently mired in essay marking, while also preparing a lecture for next week.
BBC TO STRUGGLE ON
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The White Paper on the future of the BBC is broadly good news for the organisation, but that’s only because the real damage has already been done. George Osborne’s budget raid cost the organisation £630 million, and led to the closure of BBC3 as a digital broadcast channel amongst other cuts.
MUSIC IN DVD AND ON DEMAND – SOUNDS THE SAME?
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

At the moment I’m editing a book on Music in Comedy Television. As part of the project I decided to go back to iconic pieces of comedy television I remember having had a musical impact, starting with 80s sitcoms (judge me, go on). I was expecting that some of the bits would have aged badly – comedy often does, particularly as standards for social and political correctness develops.
POLITICS AND TELEVISION: CLEARLY NOT JUST MY PROBLEM
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

I’m in the grip of politics fever. I can hardly concentrate; I want to know what is happening. Less than one week to go to the general election in the UK, and the two main political parties are neck and neck.
The Uncanny Brand: Architectural Dissonance and Genre Discourses in the Marketing of Horror
Authors: Garner Ross
Published: November 2024

Since debuting on the UK’s digital terrestrial television service Freeview in March 2015, I have been enthralled by the Horror Channel. Part of the reason for my enchantment is linked to my ‘aca-fan’ interests as from April 2014 to late March 2016, Horror had been re-running episodes of ‘classic’

Doctor Who

(e.g. those initially-broadcast between 1963 and 1989) on a daily basis.
CfP: Conference “Global Mediatization Research and Technology” Apr 19-21, 2018 @Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria. Deadline: Nov 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Digital embeddedness (Markham, 2017) is increasingly shaping how we experience our social lives. At the same time, as all levels of culture and society are shaped by new technological advancements online that lead to new forms of mediatization, the ways and contexts in which digital media are integrated into communicative structures are becoming more diversified and – at the same time – globalized.
Sustainability
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

In a complex, knowledge-driven society, learning, education and training are key to sustainability. Sustainability initiatives need to explicitly make learning strategic in order to succeed in the face of growing challenges. No organization, no sector can do so alone. Professionalization alone is not the answer. Education is failing to prepare humanity for disasters, climate change, globalization or conflicts.
MY SERENDIPITOUS ARCHIVE
Authors: Holland Pat
Published: November 2024

What do the following programmes have in common?
Learning habits
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

What are the learning habits that we perform on a regular basis to stay current? As professionals, we organize our personal learning habits in different ways that reflect our interests, personalities, and career paths. We rely on a variety of information sources, engage in reading, attend seminars and conferences, or take MOOCs or other online courses. And, of course, we connect with others.
CFP: Food is a Feminist Issue: Media, Bodies, Appetites, 30 June 2017, University of York
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

In 1978 Susie Orbach declared fat a feminist issue. This slim volume of writing put forward a radical new understanding of feminine embodiment and the gendered psychology of eating. Taking place almost four decades later, this one-day conference will revisit the terrain explored by Orbach and open out new themes of analysis by examining contemporary feminist perspectives on food.
THE NEW MEDIA EFFECTS: TRIGGER WARNINGS IN THE CLASSROOM
Authors: Proctor William
Published: November 2024

In 2016, several UK universities regrettably adopted the use of trigger warnings to signal ‘potentially disturbing’ material on course syllabi.
TELEVISION: WHERE PATRIARCHY AND GROWN-UP CINEMA GO TO DIE
Authors: Havas Julia
Published: November 2024

Last September, an interesting debate played out in the landscape of American media criticism.
BILL COSBY’S FALL FROM GRACE
Authors: Edgerton Gary R.
Published: November 2024

I’ve never been a saint.  I’m sure if anyone wanted to get me on my past, they very well could. Bill Cosby, 1989 (Collins 141) The unconscious mind can be both friend and foe.  It sometimes is the source of strange and wondrous insights; it also can appear to be working against our own self-interest.
EVIL CLEAVAGE
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Several of my previous blogs have dealt with female villains on television, and have mentioned the phenomena (by no means exclusive to TV) of ‘evil cleavage’. For some time I have promised myself I will write on this topic at more length, and was prompted to finally do so by some recent work I’ve been doing on older female characters and actors, and by several news items in the last few months about aging female actors.
CHILDREN, TELEVISION, NOSTALGIA AND AUDIENCES
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

Since the announcement that

Danger Mouse

(1982-1992) is to return to TV screens, this time on the BBC, I have had several conversations with people about whether this ‘remake’ will be any good. Most of these conversations have been with people from my own generation, who watched

Danger Mouse

—and its spin-off

Count Duckula

–back in the day but the BBC clearly intends this remake for a child audience.
WHAT DOES TELEVISION WANT? ON AFFECT AND PARTICIPATION
Authors: Palatinus David Levente
Published: November 2024

In her most recent blog, Elke Weissmann pointed out a peculiar characteristic of her own television viewing experiences – one that is presumably shared by a wide range of audiences.
Wishful thinking
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

Stopping work to learn remains the ideal. After all, many of us carry the memory of residential higher education as a powerful moment of personal growth, at the end of our teenage years and prior to entry into the workforce. Formal learning in the present includes both in-service workshops and trainings as well as various forms of continued professional development (CPD) offered by training providers and higher education institutions.
CfP: #Resist: Protest and Resistance Media in Brexit Britain and Trump-era USA. March 8, 2018 @ Ulster University (Northern Ireland). Deadline: Nov 30, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Date of Event: 8th March  2018 Name of Organization: Centre for Media Research, and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute Ulster University, Northern Ireland Contact Email: hashtagresist2018@gmail.com Organisers: Dr Giuliana Monteverde and Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University) Deadline for Abstracts: 30th November 2017 Website: https://hashtagresist.wordpress.com/ We invite papers that explore protest and resistance in relation […]
CfP: “Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV” @University of Southampton, May 23-25, 2018. Deadline: Nov 3, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next

University of Southampton, May 23 – 25, 2018 Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford As researchers of the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary UK Film Culture 2000-2015 we are proud to host the fourth International Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference in association
30 YEARS OF RAGE AND NO SIGNS OF QUIETENING
Authors: Giuffre Liz
Published: November 2024

Music video program Rage made its debut on ABC TV 30 years ago this week, on Friday April 17 1987. At the time of its debut Rage was one of five similar music video programs on Australian TV including Video Hits and a local version of MTV. As the others slowly died, morphed or were replaced, Rage has continued with an unwavering commitment to giving Australian audiences access to the weird and wonderful world of music videos.
MAKING TELEVISION STRANGE
Authors: Geraghty Christine
Published: November 2024

I thought this time I would take a moment to reflect on some of the ideas generated by three recent CST blogs: TEACHING TELEVISION: WHERE DO I START? by Elke Weissmann, THE PLACE OF THE PROGRAMME IN TELEVISION TEACHING by Catherine Johnson TRUE DETECTIVE AND PRACTICAL CRITICISM by Jason Jacobs.
FINDING THE GOLDEN RATIO
Authors: Baran Şebnem
Published: November 2024

This past winter, two new Turkish online streaming services released their first Turkish original shows: In January, Blu TV released

Masum

and in March, Puhu TV released

Fi

. A look at the production and success of these shows reveals how streaming is globalizing the Anglo-American notion of quality programming—a homogenization that is contrary to multidirectionality arguments supported by the rise of new centers of production.
KEEPING IT REAL: SOME GIRLS, RECEPTION AND AUTHENTICITY IN BRITISH TELEVISION COMEDY
Authors: Horton Erica
Published: November 2024

I want to talk about Some Girls. Some Girls is a teen comedy on BBC Three about four 16 year old girls (as they begin the first series) who attend the Greenshoots Academy in South London, all play for the school football team and live on local estates.
THE NEW GREEK TV TREND: TRANSFORMING POLITICIANS TO MEDIA CELEBRITIES
Authors: Serafeim Katerina
Published: November 2024

The 25

th

of January 2015, the day of the parliamentary elections in Greece, was characterised as a historical turning point for the country after the leftwing radical party SYRIZA swept into power.
Call for Proposals: Two-Day Symposium Exploring Contemporary US Television and “the Literary” @Edinburgh Napier University, May 5-6, 2018. Deadline: Dec 1, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We are seeking proposals for a symposium to be hosted by the School of Arts and Creative Industries at Edinburgh Napier University on May 5-6, 2018.
IMDb SUCKS: HERE’S WHY… OR WHY AM I FOUR PEOPLE?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

The more data we have, the less we can trust it. This is certainly true in the case of IMDb, the so-called movie database that is increasingly used by students and educators alike. Superficially, it has a history that shouts ‘trust me’: founded by a British film fan Col Needham before the World Wide Web even existed, it lived at one time on Cardiff University’s servers. Though later acquired and monetised by Amazon, Needham remains in charge.
CfP: “When the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television”. Deadline: Sept 30, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Call for Papers – Special Issue of Science Fiction Film and Television Guest Editors: Lorrie Palmer and Lisa Purse “When the Astronaut is a Woman: Beyond the Frontier in Film and Television” With the release of Hidden Figures (Melfi, 2016), public perception of the iconic era of the space race was reconfigured.
IS THIS THE END FOR BBC PRODUCTION?
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

Tony Hall has proposed a momentous change as part of his plan to take the BBC through charter renewal after next May’s general election. He has proposed that BBC production should be completely separated from BBC Broadcasting, and should lose its current guarantees of production work from BBC channels and commissioning editors.
GLUE, E4 AND BRITISH TEEN DRAMA
Authors: Berridge Susan
Published: November 2024

As a fan of the teen drama series genre, I’ve been following E4’s recent offering,

Glue

(2014),

with keen interest. Set in an English rural community,

Glue

is a teen/crime drama generic hybrid. The series’ over-arching narrative, stretching across all 8 episodes, centres around the death and subsequent murder investigation of a 14 year old boy.
SPINNING THE DOCTOR: NEW CAST, OLD CHARACTERS IN DOCTOR WHO
Authors: Johnson Catherine
Published: November 2024

The objects of two of my fandoms – Doctor Who and The Archers – have been in the news in the past few months because of cast changes.
A VERY SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP: MAPPING THE TRANSATLANTICISM OF CONTEMPORARY GOLDEN AGE QUALITY COMEDY
Authors: Horton Erica
Published: November 2024

I passed my viva! Hurrah! Good, now that’s out of the way, let’s talk about Channel 4 Comedy commission

Catastrophe

, which is currently airing its second series, less than a year after its first went out in January of 2015. And let’s also get something else out of the way: the total agreement I am in with the majority of TV critics about its being utterly brilliant. Good. That’s done too.
UEA Film, Television & Media Studies Symposium: “Everything is True and Nothing is True”: Exploring Truth, Lies and Media Consumption, June 20, 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

This symposium seeks to explore the relationships between truth, lies and media consumption throughout history and across media and cultural platforms. Fake news is not new.
DISAFFECTED DOES NOT EQUAL DEPRESSED: A RESPONSE TO LENA DUNHAM’S DARIA DIAGNOSIS
Authors:   Jennifer O’Meara
Published: November 2024

On July 18, 2015, Lena Dunham shared the following diagnosis for the title character from Daria (1997-2002), MTV’s cult animated series, with her two million Instagram followers: ‘I love Daria just as much as the next child of the 90s but I am also concerned not enough of us realized she was rude and almost definitely had clinical depression/could have benefitted from therapy and maybe some medication.
Complexity and scale in learning: a quantum leap to sustainability
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

This is my presentation on 19 June 2014 at the Scaling corporate learning online symposium organized by George Siemens and hosted by Corp U.
WHO WATCHES BRITISH TELEVISION TODAY, ANYWAY?
Authors: Miller Toby
Published: November 2024

The Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board, or BARB, tells us the who what, when, where, and how of watching British TV and computer screens. Jointly owned by ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky, the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, and the BBC, it has been going in its current form for many years, shifting as required to keep track of changes caused by deregulation and the proliferation of consumer technologies.
TABOO: TRANSITION, TESTOSTERONE, AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

In a recent

Sight and Sound

article (March 3 2017) Nick James made an interesting observation about BBC1’s latest historical/period drama,

Taboo

(BBC1, 2017, Scott, Hardy et al). Likening its look and characters to an Alan Moore graphic novel (“

From Hell

”),

Taboo

, according to James, has a “peculiar iconography” that “yearns to be linked…with the shadows…only graphic novelists care
I SPIT ON YOUR THRONE: THE RAPE-REVENGE OF SANSA STARK
Authors: Proctor William
Published: November 2024

Since its debut in 2010, HBO’s Game of Thrones has attracted a significant amount of criticism and celebration.
“ISN’T IT FUNNY”: NOW WE CAN LAUGH AT BREXIT
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

It’s been over a month since the monumental shock that was Brexit as well as its immediate and messy aftermath of public confusion, political backtracking and the general media frenzy that could hardly keep up with the initial developments and shifting agendas.
SOUNDING LONELINESS
Authors: Redmond Sean
Published: November 2024

Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted In my brain still remains Within the sound of silence   Simon And Garfunkel – Sounds Of Silence      Listen.
NOT EVERY GIRL WANTS TO BE A PRINCESS: REMEMBERING XENA
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

As Halloween came and went, various images of costumes circulated on social media. One of my favourites showed a mini-Predator with the caption ‘Not every girl wants to be a princess.’ My first response was to laugh in recognition. My second was to think about the kind of princess I might have wanted to be. The ones who were around in popular media when I was young were Leia and Diana Prince.
CfP: 11th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference “Writing for cinema. Writing for TV”. Sept 13-15, 2018 @ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy). Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The 11th Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) International Conference will be hosted by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. It will take place from Thursday September 13th  to Saturday  September 15th, 2018. Abstracts for original paper presentations and panels may be submitted until December 15, 2017.
ETHICS, EMPLOYABILITY, AND EDUCATION: ‘I WANT TO WORK IN THE MEDIA’
Authors: Jowett Lorna
Published: November 2024

In conversation with a colleague from English Literature recently, a question was posed that inspired this blog: ‘Is it ethical to charge students £9,000 in fees on the basis that a degree will get them a better job?’ I’m not sure I can answer either yes or no to this question, but it certainly provoked me to think about the various factors and contradictions at play for degrees in subjects like media, film and television, from either the
CfP: InVisible Culture, Issue 29: “Beyond Love”. Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

For its twenty-ninth issue,

InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture

invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the complex and multiple meanings of

love

. According to Freud, “it is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.” Is love beyond us? Whether it connotes a
A MAD MEN POTPOURRI
Authors: Edgerton Gary
Published: November 2024

Mad Men [is] arguably the dominant TV drama of its time. — Time critic James Poniewozik, 24 June 2015
Eureka
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

If informal learning constitutes an important way in which we learn, adapt and grow, it is important to be able to describe when, where, and how such learning occurs. Only then can we determine how the organization might provide or improve an enabling environment.
Call for Papers: “High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream: Reflections on Game of Thrones”. Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

The Canadian Review of American Studies (University of Toronto Press) is seeking papers for a special issue on the Game of Thrones fantasy series.
Party time
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

“Everybody in a fun environment knows more of each other.”

We interact at a human – not only utilitarian – level to form social spaces in which we can build friendships that foster and reinforce the trust we have in each other’s work.
CFP: The Journal of Film & Video Special Issue on Queer Production Studies
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Guest Editor:  Alfred L. Martin, Jr. University of Colorado Denver Alfred.Martin@UCDenver.edu DEADLINE:  SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 PROPOSED PUBLICATION DATE:  Fall/Winter 2018 Production studies has often failed to include sexuality and queerness in its research agenda.
BEYOND THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT: EUROPEAN CHILDREN’S TV IN BRITAIN
Authors: Bignell Jonathan
Published: November 2024

I blogged last year for

CSTonline

about how shared conceptions of childhood facilitated links between television institutions and audiences across Europe, in case of the children’s documentary series

If You Were Me

(BBC 1971-75). This blog follows up with some examples of how networks of borrowing and collaboration around Europe underpinned children’s animation programmes from the 1960s to the 1980s.
CfP: Transnational Television Drama 2018. June 6-8, 2018 @ Aarhus University (Denmark). Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

About In 1992 television researcher John Ellis stated that television was an “essentially national activity for the vast majority of its audience”. Since then we have witnessed a development that follows the logics of transnationalism: Television content is still produced locally – that means it is produced within specific countries under specific national laws and media regulations, and often first for a local market.
TELEVISION, BIG DATA, AND THE DIGITAL DARK AGE
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

Last week I spent three wonderful and intellectually stimulating days at the Forgotten Television Drama conference;
ZOMBIES . . . ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE: THE RISE OF ZOMBIE TV
Authors: Abbott Stacey
Published: November 2024

Television has long been accused of creating zombies….breeding an audience that sits transfixed in front of their TV screens, hypnotized by the presumed-to-be mind-numbing qualities of this ‘mindless’ entertainment. This idea continues to haunt popular culture, so much so that it has been used, quite ironically, within such cult TV series as Angel (WB 1999-2004) and Doctor Who (BBC1 2005-) to comment upon the negative potential of television.
MORE FEMALE EXECUTIVES WOULD STEM THE SEXIST ROT IN HOLLYWOOD
Authors: Duthie Lyndsay
Published: November 2024

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood producer with 300 Oscar nominations, has fallen. After The New York Times revealed decades of accusations of sexual harassment involving a string of actresses, including high profile names such as Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Cara Delevingne, Weinstein was sacked from his own company.
Theorising the Popular Conference 2017, Liverpool Hope University, June 21st-22nd 2017
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

Theorising the Popular Conference 2017

Liverpool Hope University, June 21

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-22

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2017 The Popular Culture Research Group at Liverpool Hope University is delighted to announce its seventh annual international conference, ‘Theorising the Popular’. Building on the success of previous years, the 2017 conference aims to highlight the intellectual originality, depth and breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their
CfP: “Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures” July 17-19, 2018 @ University of Zagreb (Croatia). Deadline: Feb 23, 2018.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS:  Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures Conference (#FCVC2018), University of Zagreb, Croatia, 17-19 July 2018 Keynote Speakers Pamela Church Gibson – London College of Fashion. Joseph H Hancock II – Drexel University, USA. Vicki Karaminas – Massey University, New Zealand. Stella Bruzzi – University College London.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ ON THE HOMEFRONT
Authors: Nochimson Martha P.
Published: November 2024

To write his television serial Foyle’s War (2002–2015), Anthony Horowitz armed himself with history. Spinning tales based on actual events in England during and a couple of years after World War II, he reminds us that life is the best friend fiction ever had.
The Design of a Learning System to Teach Analysis and Critical Thinking for Humanitarians
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

My presentation at the First International Forum on Humanitarian Online Training (IFHOLT) hosted by the University of Geneva on 12 June 2015. A more detailed version of this presentation is available here.
The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering
Authors: Göbel-Stolz Bärbel
Published: November 2024

“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening sentence of the call for papers for an upcoming conference at the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne that makes the CW its main focus. “Network” – for the CW that has been a defining term, maybe one limiting the young station at its onset.
CONFERENCE REPORT: TRANS TV AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, SCHOOL OF MEDIA, ARTS AND DESIGN, 13-15 SEPTEMBER, 2017
Authors: Scarlata Andrew Lynch and Alexa
Published: November 2024

At most screen and media studies conferences television scholarship is too often relegated to a single session or superficially dealt with as a contributory example when discussing broader industrial developments. However, the University of Westminster’s recent

TRANS-TV

conference focused solely on the specific and yet expansive notion of “transformations” in television.
CFP: InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies – DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS – InMedia, the French Journal of Media studies DOCUMENTARY AND ENTERTAINMENT The purpose of this special issue of InMedia is to further the understanding of the documentary by linking it to the notion of entertainment, which has so far been underexplored in the expanding field of documentary studies.
OUTSOURCING OR OPEN-SOURCING? DIGITAL LABOUR AND TELEVISION’S NEW “PROGRAMMERS”
Authors: Kelly JP
Published: November 2024

In this post, I want to explore television programming. Not the kind of programming we might typically associate with TV (i.e. the content, or the act of commissioning and scheduling) but the sort of programming that happens behind-the-digital-scenes; the computer programming, or

coding

, of the interfaces, databases and algorithms which increasingly frame our experiences of television today.
WHAT USE IS A GENDERED AUDIENCE?: INSTITUTIONAL CLASSIFICATION THEN AND NOW
Authors: Arnold Sarah
Published: November 2024

Viewer classification has been central to audience research and measurement since the early years of television. Efforts to gain knowledge of the viewing public have depended upon a system of classification and categorisation that segments and delineates the viewing public into recognisable social groups that can be used to steer programme policy and planning.
RESTRICT THE AIRWAVES, CUT THE INTERNET: OR WHY WE NEED THE RETURN OF BROADCASTING
Authors: Weissmann Elke
Published: November 2024

There’s been quite a bit of trending lately on Facebook about saving the BBC. I’ve done my fair bit of sharing a picture of the wonderful David Attenborough leaping to the broadcaster’s defence. Others have shared the BAFTA speeches which this year were full of praise for the corporation. This is perhaps no surprise since several programmes that won were made for or indeed by the BBC.
WHAT ACTORS DO: ROBERT LINDSAY IN G.B.H.
Authors: Knox Gary Cassidy and Simone
Published: November 2024

As Robert Lindsay notes in his autobiography

Letting Go

, by the late 1980s, things weren’t looking so well for his career: following an difficult stint in the USA, where he had worked on the film

Bert Rigby, You’re a Fool

(1989), the actor who was known for roles such as Wolfie Smith in

Citizen Smith

(BBC1, 1977-1980) and had enjoyed success both in the West End and on Broadway, returned to Britain with little of that
DRINKING WITH HORACE AND PETE
Authors: Jacobs Jason
Published: November 2024

It might still seem strange, after all these years, to say that

Horace and Pete

is television, since it is not available, at the moment, from any network, cable provider or software application. To see it one has to pay for each episode and download it from Louis C. K.’s website. But it is clearly a television show.
CfP: “Music and the Moving Image” May 24-28, 2018 @ MoMA New York (USA). Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/composition/scoring/conference The annual conference,

Music and the Moving Image

, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPhone, computer, and live performances) and that of music and sound through paper presentations. The Keynote Speaker is TBA.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS? POPULAR TV AND ITS TRANSITION TO THE BIG SCREEN
Authors: Longden Kenneth
Published: November 2024

The hit television comedy

Absolutely Fabulous

is set to hit the big screen as a movie (July 1

st

2016), and as such it is worth considering the hype, the paratexts, and the anticipation that surrounds this venture.
OBJECT TROUVE: PLAY AWAY, ORDINARY CHILDREN’S TELEVISION AND PERSONAL MEMORIES
Authors: Smart Billy
Published: November 2024

There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that we can confidently expect programmes from after late 1977 to survive. Thanks to the good work of Sue Malden in establishing BBC Archive guidelines, it was only at this time – rather late in the day in terms of recording technology – that a policy of systematically preserving BBC TV programming came into being.
THE CHAOS OF CHOICE ON TELEVISION
Authors: Howard Douglas
Published: November 2024

So, the other night, I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour just channel surfing—not watching anything in particular, just scrolling through the channel guide.  If I actually surfed and had been surfing out on a beach somewhere, I might have just been getting started at that point.
Dialogue and inquiry
Authors: Sadki Reda
Published: November 2024

We learn from each other through dialogue and inquiry. We are excited that we can participate in a rich, diverse world of different perspectives and opinions. Conversation, as George Siemens says, is the “ultimate personalization experience. We ask questions and offer views based on our own conceptions.
WRITING WITH PICTURES: THE AUDIOVISUAL, THE ESSAY AND TELEVISION
Authors: Ellis John
Published: November 2024

How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the restrictions of prose-only analyses. One answer is the audiovisual essay, in its poetic and analytic variants. These have recently taken off in the UK, especially in film studies, as a result of the significant loosening of copyright law, which now explicitly allows quotation of audiovisual works for the purposes of critical comment and review.
THE PLEASURES OF STEVEN UNIVERSE
Authors: Stevens E. Charlotte
Published: November 2024

Steven Universe

, a Cartoon Network series which premièred in 2013, is about a boy named Steven who lives with a trio of female warrior/superheroes from space. It came to my attention via Twitter friends’ enthusiasm for the many, diverse, and dimensional female characters in the series and the pleasures of its (semi-)serialised narrative.
WITH NO APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING…
Authors: Hewett Richard
Published: November 2024

I have a book coming out. You didn’t know? Well, it’s called

The Changing Spaces of Television Acting

, and it examines how modern UK television performance has changed – and the various contextualising factors underpinning this – since the days of live, multi-camera studio production.
TELEVISION, CHILD ABUSE AND DENNIS POTTER
Authors: Holland Pat
Published: November 2024

During June and July a good many of my evenings -and some whole days- were spent at the at the National Film Theatre following the Dennis Potter season.  Marcus Prince, the BFI’s knowledgeable television programmer, was collaborating with Potter’s long standing friend and producer, Kenith Trodd, to screen every single one of Potter’s television works. It made for an intense couple of months.
GENRE OUT OF THE BOX ON MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES: THE EVOLUTION OF A CRITIC
Authors: Nochimson Martha P.
Published: November 2024

A 2 Part Blog Part One:  Which Genre? In a recent article about the fiction of Angela Carter on Salon.com, Laura Miller discussed the importance of the imagination, fantasy, and fairy tales to Carter’s feminism and praised Carter’s audacity as a feminist of the 1970’s, since that was a period during which feminism was busy restricting itself to austere realism.
DOCTOR WHO AND THE BBC’S REMIT FOR EDUCATION AND INFORMATION
Authors: Wilson Carl
Published: November 2024

With recent debates and discussions surrounding the government’s Green Paper and the BBC’s Charter review (how the BBC should be funded; whether it distorts the market; if it should be self-regulated; and so on.) I have found it quite easy to become lost in arbitrary and abstract notions such as “value for money” based on my naturally biased consumption of BBC products and services.
CfP: Cine Excess XI – Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd. @Birmingham City University, Nov 9-11, 2017. Deadline: Sept 8, 2017.
Authors:   CSTonline
Published: November 2024

We invite paper proposals for: Cine Excess XI: Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd Birmingham City University (and related screening venues) 9th-11th November 2017 www.cine-excess.co.uk Over the last 11 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic conference with plenary talks,
SHERLOCK, AGENCY, AND ALGORITHM CULTURE
Authors: Longden Kenneth A
Published: November 2024

This article is the result of a recent, but brief conversation with Matt Hills on Facebook, where we discussed the merits of the BBC’s Sherlock and fandom.
CONFERENCE REPORT: GAME OF THRONES, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, 6-7 SEPTEMBER, 2017
Authors: Jamieson Gill
Published: November 2024

‘Winter is coming’, ‘Valar Morghulis’ and ‘You know nothing Jon Snow’ are widely-known expressions attesting to the global visibility of

Game of Thrones

; each expression offering a reminder of the power of television to resonate through casual forms of oral culture.