Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with...
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When Canadian period crime drama Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV 2008-2012; CBC 2013-present, hereafter...
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The US science fiction adventure series The Time Tunnel (1966-7) is about television. It’s about...
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The BBC’s sitcom/comedy drama, Detectorists, centred around two middle-aged metal detectorists and...
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“It’s impossible to watch HBO’s Chernobyl without thinking of Donald Trump,” tweeted the author...
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While generally marketed as the further adventures of a popular character, spin-offs generally...
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Last week I told of my near-encounter with Patrick ‘Jean-Luc Picard’ Stewart of Star Trek: The...
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Written on 12 April, 2023 This…is going to be a very different sort of blog. I’m...
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If you have never watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, you might be better off skipping this...
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CFP: The War Face on Screen, a one-day symposium, Thursday 6th July 2023, University of Leeds ...
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Keynote Speakers Concepción Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) Streaming Wars: The...
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In a recent CST blog, I discussed some of the negative issues surrounding the use of a fictitious...
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Dates: 9-10 November 2023 Place: University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Communication, Denmark....
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Organized by Céline Murillo (Université Paris 13), Mehdi Achouche (Université Paris 13),...
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Website: https://blog.hslu.ch/videoessay/2023-conference-open-call/ One of the first academic...
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By dint of their genre, medical series often deal with matters of morality and ethics. This in...
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Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University) Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023 I am...
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Editors: Professor Anna Backman Rogers, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Dr Houman Sadri,...
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The 21st century has seen an exponential rise of what can be loosely defined as spiritual media...
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The Trump administration prompted a space for dissent, critique and counter positioning within the...
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The very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-1974) asked ‘Whither Canada?’,...
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Televisuality, as theorised by John T. Caldwell in 1995, allows for a holistic view on the unique...
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In my first CST blog, over 10 years ago now, I confessed that I was a late adopter of television...
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