Category: Blogs
DEFENDING THE WAC: Exploring Indian Cinema broadcast on British Analogue Television at the BBC Written Archives Centre by Dipali Das
In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at...
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JUST (SOME OF) THE FACTS, PLEASE: IN SUPPORT OF ACCURACY IN TELEVISION by JZ Ferguson
Imagine, if you will, the following scene playing out on a television screen: A trial is underway...
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‘Don’t Scratch My Soca’: Desmond’s and Music by Melissa Beattie
In a book chapter I recently had published (Beattie 2025) I discuss how seminal British sitcom...
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Sexual Violence in Rivals: Updating the Bonkbuster for a post-#MeToo Television Audience: PART ONE by Julie Anne Taddeo
Warning: This article is divided into two parts but both have detailed descriptions of sexual...
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JESSE WATTERS AND THE NEVER-ENDING CRISIS OF MASCULINITY by Andrew J. Salvati
This past March, Fox News personality Jesse Watters, who first came to fame as the pundit Bill...
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Defending the WAC: Is the BBC a fit and proper keeper of its own paper archive? Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1)
When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the...
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VIRGIN ISLAND: A DISCONNECTED SPECTACLE by Poppy Irwin
“It’s like putting two insects together in a jar and seeing what happens…” (Hill, 2014: 3). When...
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SPORTING RIGHTS—OR WRONGS? by Toby Miller
Edward G Robinson’s gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) seems uncertain when...
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SIX MYTHS THAT UNDERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE UK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: A PROVOCATION by Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte
Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte argue for greater honesty and pragmatism in addressing the...
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Governance in Crisis: Governance Podcast Part 2 by David Levente Palatinus and Elke Weissmann
In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is...
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THE INTIMACY REVOLUTION: HEARTSTOPPER AND ITS IMPACT ON QUEER STORYTELLING by Enes Akdağ
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual...
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GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (CNN, 7 June, 2025) by Kim Akass
I first started writing this blog some weeks ago after I was lucky enough to be invited along to a...
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