Two very different brothers from Edinburgh (okay, Leith) are driving one night and accidentally hit a pedestrian. What follows in the BBC Scotland series Guilt (2019-2023) is, unsurprisingly, more about the emotion than the legal definition of guilt as we see the crimes being committed and know that the brothers are guilty of it and the subsequent cover-up.
Reviewing methods used by earlier generations to challenge discriminatory acts in television hiring practices provides proof of the long-standing battle between those who worked to challenge barriers to entry for Black people and the already established media companies that are more concerned about profit margins.
Editor(s): Valerio Coladonato (Sapienza University of Rome) Dom Holdaway (University of Urbino Carlo Bo) Elena Pilipets (University of Siegen) Lidia Valera-Ordaz (University of Valencia) In the last couple of decades, the European political landscape has been shaped by the reinvigorated centrality of populisms.
Over the past few decades we have seen a sharp rise in the number of central female characters in TV series, offering a wide palette of complex female identities, characters following very diverse narrative journeys.
Sometimes, coincidence allows us to observe separate but related phenomena that, seen by themselves, would be nowhere near as meaningful as when compared to each other. Such a wonderful coincidence happened recently in the relatively quick succession of two major television events: the Coronation of King Charles on the 6th and Eurovision, 7 days later, on the 13th May 2023.
by Gary R. Edgerton This strike is a strike for everyone in the industry. —Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, 8 May 2023 (Jackson) 2023 is shaping up to be one of the more turbulent years in Hollywood’s storied history.
What happens when one of history’s most feared villains meets a comparative innocent looking to enter the same line of work? In many cases, this scenario is used in media to illustrate the corruption and making of monsters.
Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller (millert@fau.edu) Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by November 1 We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film and Television
Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Steven Moffat Edited by William Rabkin This edited volume on the works of Steven Moffat will be the second book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Ever since the publication of American sociologist Louis Wirth’s 1945 article “The Problem with Minority Groups,” the term “minority” has referred to groups of individuals who receive unequal treatment and are subjected to discrimination because of physical or cultural characteristics[1]. The definition of “minority” has, particularly since the advent of intersectional scholarship[2], evolved to take into consideration the variety of ways in
