Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my...
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Oct 17, 2025 | Blogs
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my...
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My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on...
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Those of you that have been reading CSTonline for a while will know that I have been in the USA...
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Around the world, sports journalism is dominated by men. In 2018, Sky Sports in Britain recognized...
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In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at...
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Imagine, if you will, the following scene playing out on a television screen: A trial is underway...
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In a book chapter I recently had published (Beattie 2025) I discuss how seminal British sitcom...
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Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual...
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This past March, Fox News personality Jesse Watters, who first came to fame as the pundit Bill...
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When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the...
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“It’s like putting two insects together in a jar and seeing what happens…” (Hill, 2014: 3). When...
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Edward G Robinson’s gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) seems uncertain when...
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Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte argue for greater honesty and pragmatism in addressing the...
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In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is...
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Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual...
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Should a series be watched in production, broadcast, or some other order? Most viewers will never...
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The Star Wars franchise is perhaps best known for its rather Manichean outlook on good and evil as...
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“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt...
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‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at...
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I’m passionate about the written word but conversely, I’ve turned to digital media to encourage...
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I write biographies. So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era...
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NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies...
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This talk explores the articulation of food and television through an analysis of the soap opera...
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Last week, Kim Akass blogged about how the US press response to Adolescence (Netflix, 2025) made visible certain blind spots in a culture seemingly unable to identify that a particular kind of masculinity might be a problem....
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Trump is back in office, letting Elon Musk loose and apparently giving in to Russia’s demands as...
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