Category: Blogs
‘THIS IS WHERE THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY’?: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AND SETTLER COLONIALISM by Melissa Beattie
‘The ghosts of the Confederacy will not die.’- Colonel Anderson (Kurt Smallwood); 1.1 One...
Read MoreTALK SHOWS LEAD THE SHIFT IN SPANISH PRIME-TIME TELEVISION by Elisa Paz
Spanish television programming has undergone a major shift in recent months, with the...
Read MoreA WOMAN’S WORK: WHAT THE EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION MANAGERS TELL US ABOUT GENDERED INEQUALITY IN UK TELEVISION by Christa van Raalte
Production Managers (PMs) in television production are mainly female, and as in other industries...
Read MoreTHE ULTIMATE TV EVENT: HOW HAPPY VALLEY DEFIES AGEISM AND SEXISM IN THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY by Lucy Brown
This blog first appeared on Reflections: A Television Digest on 10 May 2024, and has subsequently...
Read MoreMEERA SYAL AND THE REPRESENTATION OF BRITISH ASIANS ON TELEVISION? by Uroosa Rashid
Backstage and background While attending the 2024 CST Conference: Sustainability and Television,...
Read More“FINDING YOUR FIT” WITHIN THE CONFERENCE CONTINUUM by Christopher Pullen
In this blog, I offer an autoethnographical account of what it means for TV scholars to take part in the conference continuum, which I argue is both familiar and strange in every iteration. Whether you are an ardent follower of...
Read More“IT’S NOT GOD, MISSY, IT’S ME”: REFLECTIONS ON ASEXUAL REPRESENTATION IN BIG MOUTH (2017-2024) by Enes Akdağ
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the conference presentation titled “(A)Sexual or...
Read MoreTHE HANDMAID’S TALE (2017-) AND CLIMATE CHANGE? by Uroosa Rashid
A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is...
Read MoreFAIR WEATHER FRIENDS AND WEATHER AUTHORITIES: LOCAL BROADCAST METEOROLOGISTS IN SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS by Melissa Beattie
As a currently-peripatetic academic, I often live and travel in areas that are meteorologically...
Read MoreFACING THE MUSIC? THE GOOD PLACE’S JASON MENDOZA by Melissa Beattie
NB: This is a version of a paper given at the The Good Place: Welcome, everything is Fine...
Read More‘IT’S NOT THAT DIFFERENT’: SPATIOTEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT AND QUEER IDENTITIES IN WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS by Melissa Beattie
Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak): ‘It might have been a he. They [his wives] weren’t all...
Read MorePRIDE AND PREJUDICE: SUCCESSION AND (AS?) ROMANTIC COMEDY by Melissa Beattie
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series of linked blogs. Part One can be found here...
Read MoreRecent Posts
- ‘THIS IS WHERE THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY’?: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN AND SETTLER COLONIALISM by Melissa Beattie October 25, 2024
- TALK SHOWS LEAD THE SHIFT IN SPANISH PRIME-TIME TELEVISION by Elisa Paz October 18, 2024
- A WOMAN’S WORK: WHAT THE EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION MANAGERS TELL US ABOUT GENDERED INEQUALITY IN UK TELEVISION by Christa van Raalte October 18, 2024
- THE ULTIMATE TV EVENT: HOW HAPPY VALLEY DEFIES AGEISM AND SEXISM IN THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY by Lucy Brown October 18, 2024
- MEERA SYAL AND THE REPRESENTATION OF BRITISH ASIANS ON TELEVISION? by Uroosa Rashid October 11, 2024
- CfP: IAMHIST Conference 2025 “Decentering Media Histories and Practices”. 30 June – 2 July, 2025 @ University of Cape Town (ZA). Deadline: Dec 20, 2024. October 11, 2024
- “FINDING YOUR FIT” WITHIN THE CONFERENCE CONTINUUM by Christopher Pullen October 4, 2024