BLUEY! THE GORGEOUS CARTOON THAT BROKE CATCHUP RECORDS IN AUSTRALIA by Liz Giuffre
The most exciting thing on Australian television at the moment is happening around 5.50pm each...
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HOMECOMING AND PARANOIA, IN ABOUT THIRTY MINUTES OR LESS by Douglas L. Howard
Whether it’s a plot vehicle, as in Quantum Leap, or ticking away in the background, as on 24, or...
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THE HISTORY PERPLEX IN MATT WEINER’S ‘THE ROMANOFFS’ (PART 2) by Martha P. Nochimson
“After the agony in stony places/The shouting and the crying/ Prison and Palace reverberation/of...
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IN SEARCH OF A ‘REAL’ UNIVERSITY by Richard Hewett
In his preface to the revised edition of Hitchcock’s Film’s Revisited (2002), the late Robin...
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TELEVISION BIOPICS: WHAT CAN THEY CAN TELL US ABOUT TV? by Jonathan Bignell
The term “biopic” is rarely used about television programmes, but biographical drama occurs across...
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CfP: edited collection “Television Series as Literature: From the Ordinary to the Unthinkable”. Deadline: Feb 15, 2019.
The past 20 years have seen the rise of the once-humble television series to new heights of...
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CfP: symposium “Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines”, July 16, 2019 @ The Centre for Media Research, Bath Spa University (UK). Deadline: March 01, 2019.
One-Day Symposium: Tuesday July 16th 2019 The Centre for Media Research, Bath Spa University...
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CfP: Conference “Agatha Christie: Investigating the Queen of Crime”, Sept 5-6, 2019 @ Solent University, Southampton (UK). Deadline: March 31, 2019.
The bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is increasingly being recognised...
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CfP: 15th Annual Irish Screen Studies Seminar, May 09-10, 2019 @ Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway (IE). Deadline: Feb 22, 2019.
The Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway is pleased to host the 15th Annual Irish...
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CfP: special issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, ‘Nordic Production Studies’. Deadline: March 31, 2019.
Guest editors: Sarah Atkinson (Kings College London), Olof Hedling (Lund University), Mette Hjort...
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Forgotten Black Drama on TV, February 04-25, 2019 @ BFI Southbank, London (UK)
Running from 4 – 25 February at BFI Southbank, FORGOTTEN BLACK DRAMA ON TV will be a season of...
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THE HISTORY PERPLEX IN MATT WEINER’S ‘THE ROMANOFFS’ (PART 1) by Martha P. Nochimson
“Son of Man /You cannot say, or guess, for you know only/A heap of broken images” T.S. Eliot, The...
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CREATING FOR SOCIAL MEDIA TV: AN INTERVIEW WITH BINIAM BIZUNEH by Stefania Marghitu
This interview has been edited for clarity and length. For the full interview:...
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‘BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH’ AND ‘THE AFFAIR’ OF RE-NARRATION IN (GENDERED TV) TASTE CULTURES by Matt Hills
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch arrived just after Christmas (December 28th 2018), billed as a “Netflix...
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REPURPOSING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN by Gary R. Edgerton
I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life. I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never...
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IN SCHMEXIT WONDERLAND: A MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AN EU27 HIGHER EDUCATION (AND NHS AND SOCIAL WORK) WORKER by Elke Weissmann
Apologies for not sending you a Christmas card this year. So, let me do it via this blog; a nice...
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WARS AND THEIR AFTERMATH… by Pat Holland
Anyone who’s interested in documentary – whether on TV, cinema or online – must inevitably face...
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CfP: symposium “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”. July 18-20, 2019 @ Notre Dame London Global Gateway, London (UK). Deadline: Feb 1, 2019.
Call for Papers: “London: Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies”, 18-20 July 2019 Location Notre...
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CfP: conference “Screening violence: affect, responsibility, accountability”. April 4-5, 2019 @ The Storey, Lancaster (UK). Deadline: Feb 8, 2019.
“… these violent delights have violent ends” Contemporary screen violence is inextricable from...
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CfP: The 4th Vampire Academic Conference: “Hammer, Highgate And The Vampyre”, July 10-13, 2019 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London (UK). Deadline: May 3, 2019.
The 4thVampire Academic Conference Lauderdale House, Highgate Village, London 10th-13thJuly 2019 ...
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BETWEEN PROGRAMME POLICY AND PRACTICE: GENDER, DIVERSITY AND THE CASE OF RTÉ’S CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS SHOW, THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW by Sarah Arnold
RTÉ recognises that it is in the privileged position of reflecting and shaping our understanding...
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“TIS THE SEASON TO BE BINGEING…”: FESTIVE TELEVISION AND THE THEMED RELEASE by JP Kelly
With the Christmas period well and truly upon us, it seems only fitting to consider the...
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PROBLEMS OF TELEVISUAL AUTHORSHIP by Max Sexton
This second blog offers some thoughts on how aesthetic complexity in drama has been developed for...
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CfP: edited volume “Visual Pedagogies: Concepts, Cases & Models”. Deadline: Feb 25, 2019.
We invite abstracts for an edited collection investigating the theoretical, empirical and...
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CfP: PhD Symposium 2019: “Disruption, Transition and Transformation”. March 29, 2019 @ London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). Deadline: Jan 15, 2019.
A transdisciplinary early-career research Symposium hosted by the LSE Department of Media and...
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