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I’ve been thinking about childish memories. Just as I now turn to obituaries before sports in my morning paper, I frequently think in childish terms. ‘Childish memories’ signifies something pejorative, as opposed to ‘childhood...

Earlier this year Sia released a new single, Elastic Heart, with an accompanying music video that drew controversy for featuring Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf and Dance Moms star Maddie Ziegler performing a contemporary dance...

I pick up on what might be considered a quite dated quote spoken by Kevin Spacey at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2014. Referencing the ways in which platform delivery detached film and television from their...

I work in four countries and for the same number of colleges. Much of my time involves garnering frequent-polluter miles, by bus, air, rail, auto, and air-conditioning. As I write, I’m finishing an assignment at the Universidad...

In the month before the UK General Election on 7th May, the BFI Mediatheques put together a selection of television programmes which featured elections and voting. We are used to examining how elections are handled on television...

For Mel This is our ‘experiment’ together – watching an entire season of The Vikings in two dreamy sittings – the late eve of a romantic Saturday and the full span of an Autumn Sunday. Our new relationship is blossoming and we...

The University of Salford’s School of Arts and Media recently held a two-day conference dedicated to (re-)exploring the iconic early 90s series Twin Peaks (1990-1). The conference had a strong international flavour as...

Couple of weeks ago, the ADAPT project, researching the use of technologies in television, undertook an ambitious three day shoot reuniting members of BBC Ealing’s legendary Film Unit with the 16mm equipment they used to use. I...

A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the particularly heinous crime that was hidden behind the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from Bulgaria, who lived with her mother...

One of the great pleasures and challenges of conference organisation is putting interesting and complimentary panels together from the abstracts you receive. Planning that you put into this always pays off in the end, looking at...

Remembering television drama: ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’ Conference, April, 2015  Despite the tendency in television studies to emphasise the contemporary, British television studies has...

One of the challenges of returning to my parents’ for the weekend (as I write, the bank holiday is looming) is the inevitable evening trawl for something watchable on television via such channels as Drama or ITV3. When we...

Last week I spent three wonderful and intellectually stimulating days at the Forgotten Television Drama conference; an event that was organised by a number of my colleagues in the department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway (you...

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. I cannot do...

The promenade at Scarborough. A ghostly and malevolent female figure appears by the seafront, cloaked in a sari. The apparition of mysterious brine accompanies her presence and the art-deco seafront is covered in mysterious...

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. I cannot do...

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...

  As March wore on and the end of term approached, I was preparing a ‘taster’ teaching session for an upcoming post-applicant day. This is an open day for prospective university students who have already applied and been offered...