Category: Funded Projects

CfP: “Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV” @University of Southampton, May 23-25, 2018. Deadline: Nov 3, 2017.

Jul 14, 2017 | CFP, CFPs conferences, Funded Projects, Gender, Performance, Politics, production | 0

Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next...

OBJECT TROUVE: PLAY AWAY, ORDINARY CHILDREN’S TELEVISION AND PERSONAL MEMORIES by Billy Smart

Feb 24, 2017 | Archives, Audience, BBC, Blogs, Children's TV, Funded Projects | 0

There’s a general rule of thumb about the BBC Archives recognised by fans of old television – that...

NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVE: PYE, C.O. STANLEY AND THE HISTORY OF BRITISH TELEVISION by Emily Rees

Feb 3, 2017 | Audience, Blogs, Funded Projects, Technology | 1

The perfect set for every home I love going to archives. From my first visits, I knew that...

WRITING WITH PICTURES: THE AUDIOVISUAL, THE ESSAY AND TELEVISION by John Ellis

Feb 3, 2017 | Blogs, Conferences/events, Documentary, Funded Projects, Teaching, UK TV | 1

How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the...

FORGOTTEN TV DRAMA SEASON, BFI SOUTHBANK, FEBRUARY 2017

Jan 27, 2017 | Conferences/events, Drama, Funded Projects, UK TV | 0

Booking is now open for the season of ‘Forgotten TV Dramas’ at BFI Southbank, London in February 2017. Following the successful Forgotten Drama season at BFI Southbank in 2015, this second season offers a rare opportunity to...

BURNING THE DRESS: THE AMBIVALENCE OF OUTLANDER’S PERIOD COSTUMES by Josette Wolthuis

Apr 28, 2016 | Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Drama, Funded Projects, Streaming, US TV | 0

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...

TWEET PRODUCTION: SOCIAL MEDIA AND LIVE TELEVISION by James Bennett

Apr 28, 2016 | Blogs, Funded Projects, Social media, Teaching, Technology | 0

Much has been written about the way in which social media has reinvigorated live television, particularly from the perspective of the audience (for example, Liz Evans, Sheryl Wilson, or Inge Sø renson). But much less is known,...

I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER by James McLean

Apr 28, 2016 | Blogs, Comedy, Funded Projects, Sitcom | 0

It is quite a joy to discover one of your personal fetishes on the internet. Indeed, I was beginning to feel that I was the only one with a dark, long-term fascination in sitcom studio floorplans, but in recent years there have...

CONSUMING “TELEVISION LIFESTYLE” IN 1950S AND 60S BRITAIN by Emily Rees

Mar 31, 2016 | Blogs, Commercial TV, Drama, Funded Projects, Public Service Broadcasting, UK TV | 0

I’ve spent the last year or so researching how television was domesticated in Britain from 1946 until 1976. Following Lynn Spigel’s approach (in a U.S. context) in Make Room for TV (1992), I’ve been using domestic magazines as...