‘AS LONG AS I’M ALIVE THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN.’: THE X-FILES, THE BILLS AND THE ‘CURSE OF THE CANCER MAN’ by Melissa Beattie
In a recent CST blog, Gary R. Edgerton noted the dearth of work on televised sport, invoking the...
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WHAT CAN EVENT TV TELL US ABOUT THE STATE OF THE NATION? by Elke Weissmann
Sometimes, coincidence allows us to observe separate but related phenomena that, seen by...
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WGA V. AMPTP: A RECKONING COMES TO HOLLYWOOD
by Gary R. Edgerton This strike is a strike for everyone in the industry. —Fran Drescher,...
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CORPORATE RAIDERS: OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH AND CORPORATE CRITIQUE by Melissa Beattie
What happens when one of history’s most feared villains meets a comparative innocent looking to...
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CfP: Science Fiction Film & Television special issue “Serial Repetitions: Retheorizing Fantasy in TV and Other Media”. Deadline: July 01, 2023.
Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller (millert@fau.edu)...
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CfP: edited collection “Screen Storytellers: The Works of Steven Moffat”. Deadline: June 30, 2023
Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of...
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CfP: conference “Minority Voices and Languages in English-Speaking Cinema and Television”. Oct 12-13, 2023 @ Université de Lille (FR). Deadline: June 19, 2023.
Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with...
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‘WE’VE AGREED TO WORK TOGETHER:’ MURDOCH MYSTERIES, REPUBLIC OF DOYLE, AND BOUNDARIES OF AND IN THE TEXT by Melissa Beattie
When Canadian period crime drama Murdoch Mysteries (CityTV 2008-2012; CBC 2013-present, hereafter...
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ABOUT TELEVISION: THE TIME TUNNEL by Jonathan Bignell
The US science fiction adventure series The Time Tunnel (1966-7) is about television. It’s about...
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‘WYRD’ TV STRIKES GOLD: THE DETECTORISTS AND GENTLE, FOLK TELEVISION by Kenneth Longden
The BBC’s sitcom/comedy drama, Detectorists, centred around two middle-aged metal detectorists and...
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CHERNOBYL REVISITED by Oliver Gruner
“It’s impossible to watch HBO’s Chernobyl without thinking of Donald Trump,” tweeted the author...
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THE GOLD (BBC 2023) by Charlotte Brunsdon
‘Say what you like about South London, but it pays all our wages’ Edwyn Cooper (ep.1) Some...
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ONE STEP BEYOND (AND TWO STEPS BACK?): BEYOND PARADISE by Melissa Beattie
While generally marketed as the further adventures of a popular character, spin-offs generally...
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PATRICK’S DAY: PHASE 2 by Richard Hewett
Last week I told of my near-encounter with Patrick ‘Jean-Luc Picard’ Stewart of Star Trek: The...
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THE ‘WAR’ OUTSIDE THE WINDOW by Melissa Beattie
Written on 12 April, 2023 This…is going to be a very different sort of blog. I’m...
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PATRICK’S DAY: PHASE 1 by Richard Hewett
If you have never watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, you might be better off skipping this...
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CfP: symposium “The War Face on Screen”. July 6, 2023 @ University of Leeds (UK). Deadline: May 2, 2023.
CFP: The War Face on Screen, a one-day symposium, Thursday 6th July 2023, University of Leeds ...
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CfP: workshop “Streaming Wars: the New Hispanic TV series”, June 30, 2023 @ online. Deadline: April 30, 2023
Keynote Speakers Concepción Cascajosa Virino (UC3M) Paul Julian Smith (CUNY) Streaming Wars: The...
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A DIPLOMATIC SOLUTION? AMBASSADORS REVISITED by Melissa Beattie
In a recent CST blog, I discussed some of the negative issues surrounding the use of a fictitious...
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CfP: conference “Reaching Young Audiences: Investigating media content for children and young people in a multi-platform era”. November 9-10, 2023 @ University of Copenhagen (DEN). Deadline: May 15, 2023.
Dates: 9-10 November 2023 Place: University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Communication, Denmark....
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CfP: SERCIA conference “Questioning the margins of English-speaking films and TV series”. September 6-8, 2023 @ Université Paris 13 (FR). Deadline: April 28, 2023.
Organized by Céline Murillo (Université Paris 13), Mehdi Achouche (Université Paris 13),...
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CfP: conference “IN THE WORKS. Makings and Unmakings of the Video Essay”. November 2-4, 2023 @ Lucerne School of Art and Design (CH). Deadline: April 20, 2023.
Website: https://blog.hslu.ch/videoessay/2023-conference-open-call/ One of the first academic...
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IS THERE A POSTCOLONIALIST IN THE HOUSE? by Melissa Beattie
By dint of their genre, medical series often deal with matters of morality and ethics. This in...
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Call for Chapters: edited collection “Radical Children’s Film and Television”. Deadline: April 30, 2023
Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University) Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023 I am...
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