Category: Quality TV
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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‘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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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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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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FINDING THE GOLDEN RATIO by Şebnem Baran
This past winter, two new Turkish online streaming services released their first Turkish original...
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CfP: Jazz Research Journal special issue on ‘Jazz Television’. Deadline: Sept 8, 2017
In an account of Roland Kirk’s appearance on the television programme Soul!, Gayle Wald argues...
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Call for Chapters: The Leftovers. Deadline: August 1, 2017
The editor seeks scholarly essays that address some aspect of HBO’s television series The...
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THE COPING WORKING-CLASS: RECENT BRITISH REAL CRIME DRAMAS AND WORKING-CLASS WOMEN by Elke Weissmann
It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’,...
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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