Category: Blogs
‘BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH’ AND ‘THE AFFAIR’ OF RE-NARRATION IN (GENDERED TV) TASTE CULTURES by Matt Hills
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch arrived just after Christmas (December 28th 2018), billed as a “Netflix...
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REPURPOSING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN OLD MAN by Gary R. Edgerton
I’ve never held an honest job in my entire life. I’ve never done any hard labor. I’ve never...
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IN SCHMEXIT WONDERLAND: A MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM AN EU27 HIGHER EDUCATION (AND NHS AND SOCIAL WORK) WORKER by Elke Weissmann
Apologies for not sending you a Christmas card this year. So, let me do it via this blog; a nice...
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WARS AND THEIR AFTERMATH… by Pat Holland
Anyone who’s interested in documentary – whether on TV, cinema or online – must inevitably face...
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BETWEEN PROGRAMME POLICY AND PRACTICE: GENDER, DIVERSITY AND THE CASE OF RTÉ’S CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS SHOW, THE LATE LATE TOY SHOW by Sarah Arnold
RTÉ recognises that it is in the privileged position of reflecting and shaping our understanding...
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“TIS THE SEASON TO BE BINGEING…”: FESTIVE TELEVISION AND THE THEMED RELEASE by JP Kelly
With the Christmas period well and truly upon us, it seems only fitting to consider the...
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PROBLEMS OF TELEVISUAL AUTHORSHIP by Max Sexton
This second blog offers some thoughts on how aesthetic complexity in drama has been developed for...
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TV HORROR ACCORDING TO NETFLIX: HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, STRANGER THINGS AND HEMLOCK GROVE by Stella Gaynor
With Haunting of Hill House plugging the hole left by Stranger Things this Halloween[1], I started...
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IF STUFF WERE SCOTTISH OR WHERE HUMOURLESS FEMINISTS WITH CLINICAL DEPRESSION GET THEIR LAUGHS by Lorna Jowett
‘Alright, it’s me Joyce Byers fae Stranger Things. Everybody calls me big Jo-B.’ Imagine a...
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TRAPPED BY THE HOUSE, THE MONOLOGUES, AND THE SCENES, AND A NEAT ENDING: IS HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE TRAPPED IN ITS ONE SEASON? by Stella Gaynor
Netflix launched their newest drama Haunting of Hill House on 12th October, just in time for...
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GENDER, CLASS, AND FAMILY TRANSFORMATION IN BBC ONE’S ‘EAT WELL FOR LESS’ by Katrina-Louise Moseley
The BBC television programme Eat Well for Less, now entering its sixth round of production, first...
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TELEVISION OF THE ANTHROPOCENE (PART II): POSTHUMAN SENSIBILITIES AND POLITICAL TV by David Levente Palatinus
In Television of the Anthropocene Part I (that I wrote exactly a year ago), I introduced the idea...
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