A MAD MEN POTPOURRI by Gary Edgerton
Mad Men [is] arguably the dominant TV drama of its time. — Time critic James Poniewozik, 24 June...
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FOX’S SCREAM QUEENS AND THE POLITICS OF PASTICHE by Jordan Phillips
FOX’s horror-comedy series Scream Queens is the latest addition to the canon of Ryan Murphy and...
Read MoreConference Review: ‘I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV’. University of Salford, 21-22 May 2015 by Ross Garner
The University of Salford’s School of Arts and Media recently held a two-day conference dedicated to (re-)exploring the iconic early 90s series Twin Peaks (1990-1). The conference had a strong international flavour as...
Read MoreBBC’S THE MUSKETEERS: ‘PRACTICED POUTS AND COMPLICATED PERSONAL LIVES’ by Lorna Jowett
I’ve always enjoyed action-adventure, especially swashbuckling action-adventure. Admittedly, though, when the BBC’s new drama The Musketeers (2014-) began last year I didn’t have high expectations. The BBC’s attempts at...
Read MoreZOMBIES . . . ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE: THE RISE OF ZOMBIE TV by Stacey Abbott
Television has long been accused of creating zombies….breeding an audience that sits transfixed in front of their TV screens, hypnotized by the presumed-to-be mind-numbing qualities of this ‘mindless’ entertainment. This idea...
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DYING IS AN ART – THEY DO IT EXCEPTIONALLY WELL by David Levente Palatinus
Stylistic Excess and the Aesthetics of Violence in Spartacus In her book Now a Major Motion...
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