In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night , Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his bee costume in an empty rink in Rockefeller Plaza, as Ella Hunt’s Gilda Radner and the iconic gold statue of Prometheus look on.
I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for nearly an hour. That isn’t counting the 2 months that I have been postponing the writing of this blog. If I don’t write it, it can’t be true. And yet our lovely Philippa (‘Our Pip’, as me and Janet always called her) died peacefully at home on 15 October 2024. Somehow a light went out in the world.
Editors: Ellie Tomsett and Hazel Collie Family dynamics have long been an area of comic consideration (Mills 2009, Pugh 2018, White 2018). From the evocation of the mother-in-law on the live Working Men’s Club circuit (Double 2014), to the depiction of the nuclear family unit in traditional sitcoms from the 1950s onwards (Jones 1992), the interpersonal tensions of how we get along with our nearest and dearest have become a
Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier View the full call here>> https://intellectbooks.com/tv-matters TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series, analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and audience reception.
8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television . Then, we invited scholars to reflect on the state of play regarding the field, allowing us to consider the multiple disciplinary influences, the breadth of its methodological approaches and future directions.
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal Viewing: Subscription Video-on-Demand Platforms and Watch Parties. For further details, you can visit the link provided by Turkish Council of Higher Education Thesis Center. Although communal viewing is often associated with the moviegoing experience;
Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia June 27-29, 2025 In the contemporary media landscape, films are remade, television shows rebooted, videogames reimagined in a seemingly endless loop of reproduction. Reproduction, in the form of AI, was also at the heart of recent media industry labor actions.
We’re delighted to announce our keynotes: Dr Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University, USA) Dr Kate Terkanian (Bournemouth University, UK) This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media.
This blog considers the psychological conundrum of ageing within the academic workplace, offering an autoethnographic approach, reflecting upon passing moments from film and TV, that are both treasured, and engrained in the author’s psyche. “Drive Louise! Drive!
This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days (2005) , New York Times Presents (2020-2023) , AKA Jane Roe (2020) , Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present) , and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.
