Category: Drama
THE PERSISTENCE OF TELEVISION: STAND-ALONE EPISODES by Martin Zeller-Jacques
In 2006, when I started out in television studies, the discipline was reckoning with the impact of...
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PROBLEMS OF STYLE IN HIGH-END TELEVISION DRAMA by Max Sexton
This blog sketches out some of the ideas that account for recent TV drama’s formal strategies due...
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SUBVERSION OF NOSTALGIA AS A STRATEGY OF ENGAGEMENT IN ALTERNATE HISTORY TV: 11.22.63 AND THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by Tobias Steiner
Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has...
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‘TAKE FOUR GIRLS’… AND DIVERSIFY THEM: THE EVOLVING INTERSECTIONALITY OF CALL THE MIDWIFE by Hannah Hamad
The first month of the new year, as has been the case now since 2012, heralds the start of another...
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CfP: Transnational Television Drama 2018. June 6-8, 2018 @ Aarhus University (Denmark). Deadline: Jan 15, 2018.
About In 1992 television researcher John Ellis stated that television was an “essentially national...
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OF BLACK MIRRORS AND ELECTRIC DREAMS: THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE TELEVISION ANTHOLOGY SERIES by Kenneth Longden
This latest offering to CST has partly been inspired by my recent research and planning for a...
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CONFERENCE REPORT: GAME OF THRONES, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, 6-7 SEPTEMBER, 2017 by Gill Jamieson
‘Winter is coming’, ‘Valar Morghulis’ and ‘You know nothing Jon Snow’ are widely-known expressions...
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CONFERENCE REPORT: TRANS TV AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, SCHOOL OF MEDIA, ARTS AND DESIGN, 13-15 SEPTEMBER, 2017 by Andrew Lynch and Alexa Scarlata
At most screen and media studies conferences television scholarship is too often relegated to a...
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THE SHOCK OF THE OLD – REDISCOVERING THE MONOCLED MUTINEER LAST SUNDAY by Tom Nicholls
Last Sunday, faced with a disappointing episode of Philip K.Dick’s Electric Dreams (Sony Pictures...
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A CRISIS IN BBC DRAMA? OR WHY I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOVED REALITY TV BY Elke Weissmann
Have you been watching Doctor Foster? Or Rellik? Or Strike? No? Me neither. Doctor Foster...
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Call for Papers: “High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream: Reflections on Game of Thrones”. Deadline: Dec 15, 2017.
The Canadian Review of American Studies (University of Toronto Press) is seeking papers for a...
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COMFORT TELLY 2: COLD FEET, THE CASE OF THE COMFORTING RESURRECTION by Tom Nicholls
Some of you may have read my previous blog on Comfort Telly, where I pondered if in the end the...
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