Category: ECREA
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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‘A GOOD PLACE WITH GOOD PEOPLE’: HAMISH MACBETH AND THE HIGHLANDS by Melissa Beattie
When I went with a friend to Plockton in the Scottish Highlands, admittedly over a decade ago,...
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LAWYER JOKES? HARVEY BIRDMAN: ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SUBVERSIVE NOSTALGIA by Melissa Beattie
‘Nostalgia is always suspect’ (Atia and Davies 2010: 181). The trope of a hero who looks for a...
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NETFLIX GLOBAL STRATEGIES – IN POLAND AND THE CRIME SECTION by Klara Liebig
As part of my current master degree programme in media studies at the Film University Babelsberg,...
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THE DEVIL, YOU SAY?: EASTWICK AND ACCENT by Melissa Beattie
As Dhoest and Mertens (2013) note, when glocalising a text, dialect and accent are key elements of...
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TELEVISUALITY, LABOUR AND IDEOLOGIES IN EASTERN EUROPEAN TV SHOWS, RUSSIAN / ITALIAN NEW YEARS EVE DISCO HITS SHOWS, AND ITALIAN INFLUENCER FASHION ICONS by Hannah Köhne
A conference I could attend that I didn’t have to work at and was indeed about my topic of...
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WHY WE SHOULD PROUDLY WATCH CHEAP REALITY TV by Malin Binding
As a participant of the conference Redefining Televisuality: Programmes, Practices, Methods at the...
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BETWEEN INNOVATION AND TRADITION: FOCUSING ON THE DIVERSITY OF TV FORMATS by Alison Winter
From 25 to 27 October 2023, Film University KONRAD WOLF opened its doors for the conference...
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IT’S A DOG’S LIFE: DOG TV by Melissa Beattie
The idea of television for dogs sounds like it should be part of a Monty Python (BBC, 1969-1974)...
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‘WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!’: BLAKES 7 AND ‘FAMILY’ PROGRAMMING by Melissa Beattie
The older I get, and the more societies, cultures and (increasingly-authoritarian) governments I...
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HOW CAN WE REDEFINE TELEVISION? by Viviane Marie Winkler
‘Television is not dead’ was one of the opening statements of John T. Caldwell at the biennial...
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TIKTOK, MEMES AND TV: ON THE ART OF CURATING YOUR ALGORITHM AND NAVIGATING THE DATA JUNGLE by Laura Lutz
Two weeks into my MA, I attended a conference. Left to my own devices amongst what I can only...
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