Televizual: Data Visualization in Industry and Academia by JP Kelly
According to the most recent iPlayer monthly performance pack (April-June 2016) – a periodical...
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No Trouble in Paradise by Geoff Lealand
Summer in New Zealand has been particularly crap so far this year (storms and flooding), so my...
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No Way to Treat a Lady: The Decline and Fall of Soap Opera by Martha Nochimson
About two years ago, at a dinner party, with my husband to my left, I was surprised when I turned...
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The wonderful world of the (Australian) web series by Sue Turnbull
Here’s the pitch. Game of Thrones meets Mad Max in a post-apocalyptic wilderness somewhere North...
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The Uncanny Brand: Architectural Dissonance and Genre Discourses in the Marketing of Horror by Ross Garner
Since debuting on the UK’s digital terrestrial television service Freeview in March 2015, I have...
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Inside Fawlty Towers by Marcus Harmes
The recent death of Andrew Sachs made me feel nostalgic and I re-watched Fawlty Towers. So much...
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TV 101: TIPS FOR TEACHING TELEVISION by Lorna Jowett
I am often asked for my recommendations on what works in terms of teaching television at HE level....
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WHAT ACTORS DO: ALEC BALDWIN IN 30 ROCK (PART II) by Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox
Having previously considered the ways in which Alec Baldwin has his character Jack Donaghy run...
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THE COLOMBIAN NARCONOVELA by Toby Miller
Colombia’s narcotraficantes [narco-traffickers] emerged as a consequence of many complex factors....
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GHOST NATION BY KENNETH LONGDEN
The killing of Osama Bin Laden by American special forces may have rid the collective American...
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WERE TELEVISION COMEDIANS TO BLAME FOR TRUMP’S ELECTION? by Liz Giuffre
When comedian Jimmy Fallon ruffled Donald Trump’s hair during an interview on The Tonight Show in...
Read MoreMedia and Fear – International Symposium, Lund University, Sweden, March 16th 2017
Department of Communication and Media, March 16th 2017 Organisers: Annette Hill, Michael Rübsamen, Tina Askanius and Zaki Habibi Fear is a key factor in today’s media landscape. A dynamics of fear frequently frames the news...
Read MoreCFP: ‘Practice and/as Media Industry Research’, 8 June 2017, Bath Spa University
Journal of Media Practice and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2017 ‘Practice and/as Media Industry Research’ Hosted by the Media Convergence Research Centre, Bath Spa University One-Day Symposium: Thursday 8th June...
Read MoreCFP: Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath, 31 March – 1 April, University of Manchester
(linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts Centre, Manchester) This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis. Since 2008, the...
Read MoreCFP: 1968 in the Media, 20 March 2017, Paris
The Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives announces its forthcoming international seminar to take place in Paris, on March 20th, 2017. The one-day seminar is dedicated to the media...
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DO YOU SECRETLY LOVE BRADLEY WALSH? DON’T WORRY. YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY BY ELKE WEISSMANN
We were working with our first year students on pitches for programme ideas, when I noticed...
Read MoreCFP – Call for Papers & Practice, SHOWREAL – Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2017, 12-13 April 2017
SHOWREAL – Irish Screen Studies Seminar 2017 12-13 April 2017 – Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin voicesonfilm in association with Irish Screen Studies, Dublin Business School, SAH Journal, Filmbase and Film Ireland will host...
Read MoreCFP: MEDIA MUTATIONS 9 – The Format Factor. May 23rd-24th, 2017
Television Shows, Brands and Properties in the Global Television Scenario Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti, May 23rd-24th, 2017 Confirmed keynote speakers: Jérôme Bourdon, Jean Chalaby Organized by Luca Barra and Paola...
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BROADCASTING APPOINTMENT CHAOS by John Ellis
Who wants to be Chair of the BBC? As it happens, nobody really. Who wants to be a director of...
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The CW, Legitimate Television, and Gendering by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
“The US network The CW celebrates its ten-year anniversary this year.” That is the opening...
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A Parting of the Ways? by Geoff Lealand
There is a quote I have used in my first year Media Cultures course, when I address the opening...
Read MoreCFP: MIA no. 164 (August 2017) Television Now
Theme Editors: Amanda Lotz, Marion McCucheon and Sue Turnbull Overview This theme issue of MIA will explore the state of television in the age of the internet – its audiences, its distributors and its content creators....
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“ISN’T IT FUNNY”: NOW WE CAN LAUGH AT BREXIT by Sarah Arnold
It’s been over a month since the monumental shock that was Brexit as well as its immediate and...
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THE NAUGHTY, THE BLASPHEMOUS, AND AMERICAN TELEVISION by David Lavery
(First Published on 14 December 2012) Back in January America was all abuzz with the...
Read MoreCFP: Women Who Kill in English-speaking Cinema and TV Series of the Postfeminist Era
Call for Chapters Within the fields of film and television studies, feminist critics and scholars of the 1980s and 1990s have extensively analyzed the figures of women murderers in classical film genres like film noir and...
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