Category: Blogs
‘THE JEDI SAY I CAN’T EXIST’: COLONISATION, CRITIQUE AND THE ACOLYTE by Melissa Beattie
The Star Wars franchise is perhaps best known for its rather Manichean outlook on good and evil as...
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‘SOCIALLY CONSTITUTED BODIES’: QUESTIONS OF SELFHOOD AND PAIN IN APPLE TV’S SEVERANCE by Noah Gray
“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt...
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BACK TO (BBC) ONE: RETURN TO PARADISE AND REPRESENTATION by Melissa Beattie
‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at...
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SLOWING DOWN TIME WITH THE VIDEO ESSAY by James Walker
I’m passionate about the written word but conversely, I’ve turned to digital media to encourage...
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LIVE CHATS WITH DEAD STARS: MEETING WITH ‘MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN’ by Ruth Barton
I write biographies. So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era...
Read More![SHOW, [DON’T ASK] DON’T TELL: QUEER REPRESENTATION IN STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE by Melissa Beattie](https://cstonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/QUEERENT-627x376.png)
SHOW, [DON’T ASK] DON’T TELL: QUEER REPRESENTATION IN STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE by Melissa Beattie
NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies...
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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...
Read MoreTHESE 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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ADOLESCENCE (NETFLIX, 2025) HITS THE US by Kim Akass
Everyone is talking about Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s latest venture: the 4-part series,...
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IN TRANSLATION: A CONVERSATION WITH FRANCESCO CASETTI ON NEO-TELEVISION, ROGER ODIN’S LEGACY AND CONTEMPORARY MEDIATION by Cathrin Bengesser
Cathrin Bengesser (Aarhus University) in conversation with Francesco Casetti (Yale University)...
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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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