A Taste for Soap Opera: Food, Television and the Transmedia Cookbooks of 7de Laan and Coronation Street, a Webinar with Sarah Gibson
This talk explores the articulation of food and television through an analysis of the soap opera...
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THESE ANXIOUS TIMES: WHY WATCHING CHINESE PERIOD DRAMA MIGHT (NOT) BE GOOD FOR YOU (AT THE MOMENT) by Elke Weissmann
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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IN CONVERSATION: TELEVISION AND GOVERNANCE by David Levente Palatinus and Elke Weissmann
Trump is back in office, letting Elon Musk loose and apparently giving in to Russia’s demands as...
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‘WELCOME TO ROMAN TIMES’: MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 by Melissa Beattie
‘In the not-too-distant future…’ For those of us of a certain age and from a certain...
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Call for papers: Television and New Media Special Issue “Imagining US in Europe: Europeanness in Contemporary American Prestige TV”
Co-editors: Gábor Gergely, Júlia Havas, Victoria K. Pistivsek What is “Europe”? The term is far...
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WHEREFORE ART THOU? THE ROMEO SECTION by Melissa Beattie
Because of the ambiguities inherent in the job, spy dramas tend to have morally grey characters,...
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AN OTHER[ED] PLACE: NHK’S SOMEWHERE STREET by Melissa Beattie
I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries. While I often enjoy...
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SUB-CULTURE CLUB by Andrew Pixley
Santa has been very kind to me again this year. You may recall that in recent years she’s been...
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ACTING LIKE KIDS: CHILD ACTORS PERFORMING COMEDY IN THE BRADY BUNCH by Ellie McFarlane
In the 1960s and 70s, US TV networks were broadcasting a plethora of situation comedies, many of...
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LOADED DICE: FUTURAMA’S (PSEUDO-)INDIGENOUS MARTIANS by Melissa Beattie
Science fiction and comedy are often used for social commentary and animated sf/fantasy sitcom...
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“LIVE” FROM NEW YORK, IT’S (POSTMODERN) SATURDAY NIGHT! by Douglas L. Howard
In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his...
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FROM KAISERPANORAMA TO VIRTUAL WATCH PARTIES: REDEFINING COMMUNAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE(S) by Enes Akdag
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal...
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‘KEEP ON DRIVING’ – ON BEING AN OLDER ACADEMIC IN TV (AND FILM) STUDIES by Christopher Pullen
This blog considers the psychological conundrum of ageing within the academic workplace, offering...
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TRUMP, MALIGNANT NARCISSISM AND THE 2024 AMERICAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN by Kim Akass
I initially started writing this blog on Tuesday (we’ll certainly remember, remember, this 5th of...
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