Category: Blogs
BRAIN MACHINES AND BISCUITS by Andrew Pixley
You know, fan conventions and academic conferences are very similar really. You sort of feel the...
Read MoreIT’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: PART 2 BY ANDREAS HALSKOV
Priests and paedophiles, families and fragmentation: Oz “It’s No Place Like Home.” Thus reads the tagline of the transgressive prison show Oz, which premiered on HBO in 1997. The title and the tagline of the show are naturally...
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NO PLACE LIKE HOME: MARY HARRON, WOMEN DIRECTORS AND CHANGES IN THE TV LANDSCAPE (PART 1) by Andreas Halskov
In this series of blogs Andreas Halskov interrogates the work of Mary Harron. The first part...
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FROM EDUCATION TO WORK: MEDIA GRADUATES’ EXPERIENCE OF THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES by Anne O’Brien and Sarah Arnold
In Ireland in recent weeks, national broadcaster, RTÉ, has not only been a news producer but a...
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AN INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO COMPLETENESS by Andrew Pixley
“You need to watch all the episodes,” stated Professor James Chapman during his keynote speech...
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EMMA CORONEL—FASHION DESIGNER, PAGEANT WINNER, REALITY STAR…NARCO WIFE by Toby Miller
You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew, which began in January and is...
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IT’S FIFTY YEARS OF COLOUR TV IN THE UK by Jonathan Bignell
Last Saturday I went to a day-long celebration of the official launch of colour TV on BBC1 and...
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FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS: PART 3, ‘DON’T GO INTO THE BASEMENT’ by Kim Akass
My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked...
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NEVER MIND THE WIDTH, FEEL THE QUALITY by Andrew Pixley
“Seven,” sighed the post-graduate admissions tutor in the campus corridor. This integer clearly...
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21ST CENTURY FACTUAL TV: PART 1 by Kenneth Longden
Factual television, as an academic area of interest, has become quite vogue. Not content, merely...
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AND HELLO! FROM THE ECREA TV STUDIES ‘THE YOUTHIFICATION OF TELEVISION AND SCREEN CULTURE’ CONFERENCE by Elke Weissmann
‘And we are LIVE… Hello from Europe, hello from the ECREA Television Studies Section’. I think we...
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WHEN TELEVISION GREW UP: DAVID SIMON, MODERN AMERICA AND THE MATURING OF THE TV LANDSCAPE by Andreas Halskov
David came in, and what you had was long-form storytelling. Characters that were nuanced, stories...
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