Category: Blogs
WHY MANAGEMENT IS THE KEY TO CHANGING THE LABOUR EXPERIENCE by Christa van Raalte and Richard Wallis
Television careers offer many potential benefits: opportunities for creative expression, a sense of making a difference in the world, flexibility and autonomy – but often at a price. That price includes long hours,...
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WHODUNNIT? SUSPECTS’ AUTHORSHIP by Melissa Beattie
While improvised or unscripted television has been a feature of media industries for decades, most...
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ALIENATING(?) EXPERIENCES: THE VISITOR by Melissa Beattie
The mid-1990s were an unusual time to grow up in the US (at least I thought so). The success of...
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NICE ONE! by Andrew Pixley
So, this morning, the day has already got off to a good start with the unprompted arrival of what...
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HIS-STORY: BIG FINISH’S WHOVIAN PARATEXTS by Melissa Beattie
(Note: this blog is a version of a paper given at the Classical Association Annual Conference on...
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CINDERELLAS AT THE BAFTA BALL by Christa van Raalte
This blog first appeared on the Women’s Film and Television History Network – UK/Ireland website...
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Call for Book reviewers – Critical Studies in Television
The Book Reviews Section for the journal Critical Studies in Television is interested in adding to...
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‘AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I THOUGHT TURKEYS COULD FLY’: WKRP IN CINCINNATI AND ITS ENGAGEMENTS WITH CSR by Melissa Beattie
Commercial radio has a long history in the US. It is in this context that sitcom WKRP in...
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‘O CANADA’? REPRESENTING CANADIANNESS IN ‘ONE WEEK’ by Melissa Beattie
‘It’s been…’ For those of a certain age and/or certain geographic range, that partial lyric...
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‘WE WANTED TO INCITE CHANGE’: HOW PRODUCTION PRACTICES ON A KIND OF SPARK CAN MAKE TELEVISION BETTER FOR ALL OF US by Mhairi Brennan
This month the University of Stirling published the largest ever study of autistic people’s...
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INITE SE FÒS: HEROES AND HAITI by Melissa Beattie
Though not well-studied academically,[1] the NBC series Heroes (2006-2010; 2015) is notable for...
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THE CRISIS IN UK TV AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE by Mhairi Brennan and Jack Newsinger
2024 has started with a bang for TV. Shows like The Traitors (BBC1) and Mr Bates vs The Post...
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