PHILIPPA BREWSTER – 29 DECEMBER 1949 – 15 OCTOBER 2024 by Kim Akass, with comments by Janet McCabe
I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for nearly an hour. That isn’t counting the 2...
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Author: CSTonline
CFP: Television Comedy Representations of Adult Children and Their Parents: Making Humour from Intergenerational Conflict in English Language Programming.
Editors: Ellie Tomsett and Hazel Collie Family dynamics have long been an area of comic...
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Call for Proposals: TV Matters
Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier View the full call here>> https://intellectbooks.com/tv-matters...
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CFP Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025 Television Studies and CST: The Past, the Present and the Future
8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has...
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CFP: Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, June 27-29, 2025
Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia June 27-29, 2025 In the contemporary media landscape,...
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CFP: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII Conference – Entangled Media: Past and Present, 18-20th June 2025, University of Lincoln
We’re delighted to announce our keynotes: Dr Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University, USA) Dr...
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WHY I LOVE SUITS (USA, 2011-19) AND I’M NOT ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT by Kim Akass
August 17th 2023 and the Guardian ran an article entitled ‘How did Suits become America’s...
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The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce a TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This...
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THE RECKONING: AN APOLOGY FROM THE BBC by Rowan Aust
The Reckoning is the BBC’s examination of the life and criminality of broadcaster Jimmy Savile...
Read MoreTrigger Warnings Survey
Dear colleagues, We have just launched a new survey investigating the use of ‘trigger warnings’ in the classroom: https://hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6xvCqDBwF2uXvnw Trigger and content warnings are part of...
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CfP: Chapter Proposals for Television Comedy & Cultural Crisis. Deadline: March 31, 2022.
We are seeking proposals for an edited collection tentatively titled Television Comedy &...
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CFP: TV Londons. Exploring Representations of London on Television
A CREAM, University of Westminster conference, in collaboration with the University of Brighton...
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How does your family use Netflix? RMIT University in collaboration with The University of Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology are conducting a study into how families use the streaming service Netflix. We’d like to...
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THE FIVE DEGREES OF HUMPHREY BURTON by Ian Greaves
Sir Humphrey Burton, 90 in March and now publishing his long-awaited autobiography In My Own Time,...
Read MoreCFP: British Audio-Visual Research Network – Virtual Colloquia
We wish to foster an international, virtual community of scholars from all disciplines engaged with the study of music and sound in audio-visual media. Our intention is to organise a regular forum for researchers and...
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VALE AVENGERS STARS by Toby Miller
This year has seen the passing of two of the principal actors in The Avengers (ITV, 1961-69),...
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TV TECH IS KILLING TV. WHY DOES IT ALL HAVE TO BE SO COMPLICATED? by John Ellis
Our digital TV has just updated its interface, without asking us. This confirms my long-held...
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THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS (OR, HOW TV KEPT ME SANE DURING A PANDEMIC) by Kim Akass
More than ever this year I find myself coming up against Facebook memories. You know, the ones...
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CFP: Celebrity Studies Special Edition, “CHILDREN AND CELEBRITIES.” Deadline: August 7, 2020.
The entertainment industries create the most widely circulated popular images of children and...
Read MoreOnline talk, ‘Doctor Who and the Communist: the writing and politics of Malcolm Hulke’
Date: 10th Jun 2020 Event time: 14:00 to 15:00 We will be livestreaming this talk, with login details available on this page on the day. Malcolm Hulke (1924-1979) was a successful writer for radio, television and the cinema from...
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The Great Pottery Throw Down by Rosa Georgiou
The Great Pottery Throwdown (More4, BBC2, 2015-) is, with its playful filth and flair, the very...
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LOVE ISLAND, AFTER THE SUN HAS GONE DOWN by Lyndsay Duthie
ITV’s Love Island, where gorgeous singletons compete to find love, was the surprise reality hit of...
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EMMA CORONEL—FASHION DESIGNER, PAGEANT WINNER, REALITY STAR…NARCO WIFE by Toby Miller
You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew, which began in January and is...
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FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: PART 3, ‘DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT’ by Kim Akass
My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked...
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THE PERSISTENCE OF TELEVISION: STAND-ALONE EPISODES by Martin Zeller-Jacques
In 2006, when I started out in television studies, the discipline was reckoning with the impact of...
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