Following successful symposia on Interiors and Film in New York and Kingston, UK, Professor Pat Kirkham and Kingston University’s Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC: Director Professor Penny Sparke) call for proposals for articles and chapters for two publications. The first is a book that Bloomsbury will publish (Rebecca Barden and her team will be guiding the process at the publishing end).
Prisons, prisoners, and crime are attracting unprecedented levels of interest from both predictable sources (tabloid media) to more unexpected (such as the prison setting of Paddington 2 ). Globally, but especially in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, the real life prison population is rising dramatically.
Last year I had the opportunity to spend time researching the women involved in the development of early BBC television, from the experimental years of 1936-1939 and from the relaunch of the service following the end of the war, to the professionalization of the service by the 1950s.
Political Studies Association: Media & Politics Group Annual Conference 2018 Political Reversals and Renewals University of Nottingham: 8-9 th November 2018 The theme for this year’s Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group conference is Political Reversals and Renewals.
SERIES Vol 5 No 2 – Television Serials in Asia – Call for papers This themed issue of Series aims to contribute to the study of television serials produced in the Asian region and make them more widely known. The television serial is a prominent expression of popular culture across Asia, especially in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, but has not been extensively studied.
When that estimable curator of classic British television, the Drama channel, began repeating Jersey-based detective series Bergerac (BBC, 1981-91) earlier this year, the Radio Times was less than laudatory, claiming the first episode showed ‘every one’ of its thirty-seven years.
The differences in pay received by men and women in broadcasting will be starkly revealed when broadcasters and production companies publish their gender pay data. All companies with over 250 employees must do this by the start of April.
“The judgement of quality is always situated. That is to say, somebody makes the judgement from some aesthetic or political or moral position.” (Feuer, 2007: 145) This latest contribution to CST has been inspired by the viewing choices of most of my students, and their predilection for what has variously been described as popular television and mass entertainment.
Sport has long been a prominent feature of scholarly investigation across diverse disciplines including (but not being limited to) education, communication, media studies, tourism, advertising and marketing, public relations, sociology and psychology. However, with the rapid evolution and widespread adoption of new media technologies, the study of sport and its relationship with these disciplines demands recalibration.
We are delighted to announce the Keynote Speakers for this year’s King’s CMCI PhD Conference as Professor Anna Reading from King’s College London and Professor Catherine Grant from Birkbeck, University of London (see details below). The one-day conference will be held on 15 June 2018 at King’s College London . This year, the conference venue has moved to Bush House, former headquarters of the
With deep-felt thanks to the respondents. There is a wonderful video on YouTube that shows David Morley being interviewed about his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) and his and Charlotte Brunsdon’s work on Nationwide . The video looks like it might be from the late 1980s, early 1990s, and Morley is in quite a reflective mood/mode, explaining how he came to the CCCS and how he came to do the work he