Category: Blogs
“LIVE” FROM NEW YORK, IT’S (POSTMODERN) SATURDAY NIGHT! BY DOUGLAS L. HOWARD
In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his...
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PHILIPPA BREWSTER – 29 DECEMBER 1949 – 15 OCTOBER 2024 by Kim Akass, with comments by Janet McCabe
I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for nearly an hour. That isn’t counting the 2...
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FROM KAISERPANORAMA TO VIRTUAL WATCH PARTIES: REDEFINING COMMUNAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE(S) BY ENES AKDAG
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal...
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‘KEEP ON DRIVING’ – ON BEING AN OLDER ACADEMIC IN TV (AND FILM) STUDIES by Christopher Pullen
This blog considers the psychological conundrum of ageing within the academic workplace, offering...
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TRUMP, MALIGNANT NARCISSISM AND THE 2024 AMERICAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN by Kim Akass
I initially started writing this blog on Tuesday (we’ll certainly remember, remember, this 5th of...
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LAYERED SPECTATORSHIP: THE CROWN AS PALIMPSEST by Leona Heimfeld
This blog post first appeared on the WFTHN blog on Oct 25, 2024. Siegfried Kracauer in...
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‘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...
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TALK 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...
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A 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...
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THE 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...
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MEERA 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...
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