In the 1960s and 70s, US TV networks were broadcasting a plethora of situation comedies, many of which featured families in a variety of shapes and sizes [1]. Child actors were integral to these programs, and part of their job was to perform the genre’s comedic conventions, make the audience laugh, and help sitcoms appeal to a family audience.
Science fiction and comedy are often used for social commentary and animated sf/fantasy sitcom Futurama (Fox 1999-2003, Comedy Central 2008-2013, Netflix 2023-) is no exception. For those unfamiliar with the series, it is an animated workplace sitcom with science fiction elements (cf Geraghty, 2009).
Please see below our new call for a special dossier on Television, to be published in the second half of 2025 in Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture. https://revistas.usp.br/significacao/announcement/view/1841 Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual invites submissions for a special dossier dedicated to the multifaceted and ever-evolving medium of television, which will celebrate its
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.
