Category: Costume/Historical Drama
‘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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MISSING IN ACTION: RECALLING ‘A FAMILY AT WAR’ (GRANADA, 1970-72) by Melanie Williams
ITV recently broadcast Goodbye Granadaland, a 90 minute valedictory celebration of the output of...
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THE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS by Lyndsay Duthie
The big question of this year’s BAFTAs was how many awards Netflix would romp home with. Most of...
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TABOO: TRANSITION, TESTOSTERONE, AND THE TRANSCENDENTAL by Kenneth Longden
In a recent Sight and Sound article (March 3 2017) Nick James made an interesting observation...
Read MoreCFP: Game of Thrones – An International Conference, 6-8 September 2017, University of Hertfordshire
6-8 September 2017 University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB Deadline for proposals EXTENDED: 18 April 2017 Conference email: GOTconf2017@herts.ac.uk Keynote Speakers:...
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ROOTS (HISTORY, 2016) VERSUS ROOTS (ABC, 1977) by Elke Weissmann
I finally got around to watching the new version of Roots (if you haven’t seen it yet, episodes...
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SKY DIVING: THE END OF ADVENTUROUS COMMISSIONING AT OSTERLEY by John Ellis
Big changes are taking place at Sky, even before the much anticipated buyout of non-Murdoch...
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GHOST NATION BY KENNETH LONGDEN
The killing of Osama Bin Laden by American special forces may have rid the collective American...
Read MoreCAN YOU TURN IT UP A BIT?: HEARING DIALOGUE IN MODERN TV DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
Television often has subtitles in my household and not just when we are watching Euro-dramas on BBC4. I hadn’t given much thought to this until I read an excellent article on the topic by Maggie Brown in the Royal Television...
Read MoreOLD FORMATS DIE HARD by Richard Hewett
I like old things. When I was a teenager my granddad entrusted me with my great grandfather’s fob watch, and it always gave me a thrill to think that I was holding something of (it seemed at the time) inestimable age. It was...
Read MoreBURNING THE DRESS: THE AMBIVALENCE OF OUTLANDER’S PERIOD COSTUMES by Josette Wolthuis
The weeks surrounding the launch of the second season of the STARZ drama series Outlander – broadcast in the US on 9 April and released to Amazon Prime UK the day after – saw a spate of online journalism and fans swooning over...
Read MoreARE WE DISAFFECTED WITH POLITICS OR OBSESSED WITH POLITICS? IT DEPENDS WHERE YOU LOOK ON TV by John Ellis
Two things have made me think about the role of television in the current wave of disaffection from politics. One was a satirical song from Mitch Benn on a recent Radio 4 Now Show with the refrain “I don’t want to see the news...
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