Category: Teaching
REARRANGING THE CHAIRS ON THE DECK OF THE TITANIC by Gary R. Edgerton
I’m the king of the world! — James Cameron on accepting the 1998 Best Director Oscar for Titanic...
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OF MASSES AND NICHES – TV CONTENT AND THE STORY OF (LARGEST) TRANSCULTURAL COMMON DENOMINATORS by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
I have been thinking about a piece written by Elke Weissman[1] a lot recently. In it she describes...
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JOEY ESSEX TALKS NEOLIBERALISM: REALITY TV AND LEGITIMATE TELEVISION by Kenneth Longden
“The judgement of quality is always situated. That is to say, somebody makes the judgement from...
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EUROPEAN CULTURES OF TELEVISION STUDIES (1): TO BE CONTINUED… by Elke Weissmann
It all started with Traumschiff (ZDF, since 1981). Traumschiff is the German version of Love Boat...
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LOST IN TV TRANSITIONS: MULTI-MEDIAL AUDIENCES, TV INDUSTRIES, AND TELEVISION SCHOLARSHIP NOW – A POSITION PAPER by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
In a world of increased professional mobility, which often transplants scholars internationally...
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RINGS AROUND LONDON: TELEVISION IN 1946 by Jonathan Bignell
British television re-started after the Second World War on 7 June 1946, with programmes that...
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CfP: Transnational Television Drama 2018. June 6-8, 2018 @ Aarhus University (Denmark). Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
About In 1992 television researcher John Ellis stated that television was an “essentially national...
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CONFERENCE REPORT: TRANS TV AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, SCHOOL OF MEDIA, ARTS AND DESIGN, 13-15 SEPTEMBER, 2017 by Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
At most screen and media studies conferences television scholarship is too often relegated to a...
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THE SHOCK OF THE OLD – REDISCOVERING THE MONOCLED MUTINEER LAST SUNDAY by Tom Nicholls
Last Sunday, faced with a disappointing episode of Philip K.Dick’s Electric Dreams (Sony Pictures...
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ADVENTURES IN ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR… by Richard Hewett
… don’t worry; you’re still doing better than most modern undergraduates. Welcome back everyone –...
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Call for Proposals: Two-Day Symposium Exploring Contemporary US Television and “the Literary” @Edinburgh Napier University, May 5-6, 2018. Deadline: Dec 1, 2017.
We are seeking proposals for a symposium to be hosted by the School of Arts and Creative...
Read MoreCfP: Transmedia UK: Sector by Sector, Nov 24, 2017 @Bath Spa University. Deadline: Sept 22, 2017.
Media Convergence Research Centre and Centre for Culture and Creative Industries Bath Spa University, Corsham Court Campus One-Day Academic-Industry Workshop: Friday 24th November 2017 Confirmed Industry Speakers: Alison...
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