Tag: Quality TV
HERSTORY? THE POTENTIAL OF FEMALE-CENTRED HISTORICAL MINISERIES MADE IN GERMANY (2001-2021) by Sandra Becker and Berber Hagedoorn
“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives,...
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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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CfP: Screen Cultures. July 10-11, 2018 @ Birmingham City University (UK). Deadline: Dec 8, 2017.
Screen Cultures – Conference Call for Papers Tues 10 and Weds 11 July 2018, Birmingham City...
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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...
Read MoreCfP: UdS American Studies Graduate Forum „Reading American TV Series: An Interdisciplinary Conference“, October 5-6, 2017, Saarbrücken, Germany
Deadline: June 15, 2017 In cooperation with the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland, the Chair of North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (UdS) will hold a 2-day American Studies Graduate Forum...
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WHY BRITISH QUALITY DRAMA FRUSTRATES ME NO END (AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE US STUFF) by Elke Weissmann
I am currently suffering from a massive dilemma. The last episode of Undercover (BBC, 2016) is...
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PROBLEMS WITH QUALITY by Elke Weissmann
In 1990, Charlotte Brunsdon wrote an article entitled ‘Problems with Quality’. It examined British...
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ON NOT WATCHING TV by Kim Akass
Confronted with the challenge of editing an article I had submitted a year ago, writing a paper...
Read MoreLetter from America by John Ellis
THE DARK SIDE OF KELLEY David E.Kelley’s new primetime series on NBC, Harry’s Law, has just turned bleak. Fans of Ally McBealwere initially delighted by the idea of a sacked patents lawyer (‘Harriet Korn’/Kathy Bates) setting up...
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