Category: Blogs
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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“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...
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THE 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...
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FAIR 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...
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FACING 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...
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‘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...
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PRIDE 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...
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LE ROY EST MORT; VIVE LE ROY! SUCCESSION AND HISTORY by Melissa Beattie
(NB: This is the second of three linked blogs. Part One can be found here). In the previous...
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ACCIDENTALLY LIKE A MARTYR: SUCCESSION AND RELIGION by Melissa Beattie
(NB: This is the first of three linked blogs. Part Two can be found here). In my first ever blog...
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NAI ZINDAGI NAYA JEEVAN (BBC1, 1968-82) AND NAZIA HASSAN by Dipali Das
This post first appeared on the WFTHN blog on 24 May 2024. For pop and rock music...
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IF ONLY WE WERE HUMAN: THE (USUAL) CONCEPTUALISATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE AS TECHNOLOGY by Elke Weissmann
There are, I believe, in all countries myths that emphasise some places as outliers, as different...
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