Category: Transnational TV
ACROPOLIS NOW: COMEDY, CULTURAL POLITICS, AND GREEK-AUSTRALIAN IDENTITY by Nektaria McWilliams
This blog post has first been published on Filmicon. Growing up as a child of...
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SUBVERSION OF NOSTALGIA AS A STRATEGY OF ENGAGEMENT IN ALTERNATE HISTORY TV: 11.22.63 AND THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by Tobias Steiner
Beginning with the popularization and mass availability of television in the 1950s, the medium has...
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NEW PUBLICATION: WOMEN DO GENRE IN FILM AND TELEVISION by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
This post has originally been published on the Women’s Film and Television History Network...
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SKY HIGH… BUT FOR HOW LONG? by John Ellis
It’s all happening around Sky at the moment. The first was an unexpected bid from the US giant...
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QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN TELEVISION (PART 2): ALGORITHMS IN ACADEMIA by JP Kelly
This is a follow up to my last post for CST. Given that this is a blog about television it seems...
Read MoreCFP: Independent Women: From Film to Television
Issue Guest Editors: Claire Perkins (Monash University) and Michele Schreiber (Emory University) Working in television has historically been considered ‘bread and butter’ labour for female filmmakers around the world. For...
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IS THE BRIDGE CHANGING PERCEPTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH? by Sarah Niblock
I’ve spoken before that I am a HUGE fan of The Bridge and especially the character of Saga Noren. ...
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OF MASSES AND NICHES – TV CONTENT AND THE STORY OF (LARGEST) TRANSCULTURAL COMMON DENOMINATORS by Bärbel Göbel-Stolz
I have been thinking about a piece written by Elke Weissman[1] a lot recently. In it she describes...
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JOEY ESSEX TALKS NEOLIBERALISM: REALITY TV AND LEGITIMATE TELEVISION by Kenneth Longden
“The judgement of quality is always situated. That is to say, somebody makes the judgement from...
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EUROPEAN CULTURES OF TELEVISION STUDIES (1): TO BE CONTINUED… by Elke Weissmann
It all started with Traumschiff (ZDF, since 1981). Traumschiff is the German version of Love Boat...
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GREEK TELEVISION: MOVING FORWARD OR GOING BACK? by Katerina Serafeim
As we have reached the end of 2017, I thought it would be a good idea to do a recap on the...
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CfP: Summer Seminar “Media History from the Margins” Aug 29-24, 2018 @ Monte Verità, Switzerland. Deadline: Jan 31, 2018.
MEDIA HISTORY FROM THE MARGINS CSF Summer Seminar at Monte Verità, Switzerland August 19-24, 2018...
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