ITV recently broadcast Goodbye Granadaland , a 90 minute valedictory celebration of the output of Granada’s studios in central Manchester ahead of its forthcoming relocation to the nearby Salford Media City complex.
The horror that the residents, firefighters and loved ones experienced as London’s Grenfell Tower burned is almost unspeakable. Maybe that’s why so much of the coverage was just images. As details emerge about the lack of support and attention to warnings, the event and its toll is also unforgivable.
What Students Want to Write About (Final Project) I have been absent from CST for too long. The reason for my absence has been entirely due to my commitment to work and students undergoing their ‘Final Year Project’. In January I was given the honour and task of guiding 150 BATAR (BA Television and Radio) final-year students through their last, and arguably most important, Theory Essay.
The* International Journal of James Bond Studies* is an academic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on all aspects of Ian Fleming’s James Bond franchise.
English-language television comedy is circulating transnationally more than ever before, as Americans watch the Irish comedy Moone Boy on Hulu and British comedy panel shows like Have I Got News For You on YouTube; Netflix brings the BBC’s Miranda and RTE imports CBS’s 2 Broke Girls to Irish shores; the most popular sitcom on British television, Mrs. Brown’s Boys , is created by an Irish performer;
We seek proposals for a small number of original essays to include in Hands On History (eds. John Ellis and Nick Hall), an edited collection focusing on practical and embodied approaches to the history of media technology. The collection explores the relevance of the new methodology of hands on history to the study of media.
Guest Editors: Harriet Earle, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Jessica Clark, University of Suffolk, UK This call for papers seeks submissions that engage with the television series American Horror Story (produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk) as part of a Special Issue for the European Journal of American Culture.
Reruns of television series have long been an integral part of the television market. Even though reruns have taken on different forms over the past decades – from television re-broadcasts to DVD box sets to online platforms such as Netflix – the underlying principle of rewatching familiar television content has remained the same.
I said it wouldn’t work, didn’t I? Yes, friends, after less than two years in operation, the BBC Store is shutting up shop, having admitted defeat ‘in the face of streaming service rivals’. Way back in November 2015 I blogged about the Store’s launch (I like to keep things current), when Auntie Beeb was proudly trumpeting the fact that over 7,000 hours of content, old and new, would be made available to purchase and view via
The more data we have, the less we can trust it. This is certainly true in the case of IMDb, the so-called movie database that is increasingly used by students and educators alike. Superficially, it has a history that shouts ‘trust me’: founded by a British film fan Col Needham before the World Wide Web even existed, it lived at one time on Cardiff University’s servers. Though later acquired and monetised by Amazon, Needham remains in charge.
The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium Saturday, 30 September, 2017 Film Studies @ Worcester Jenny Lind Building, University of Worcester Despite being written over 35 years ago, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), set in a totalitarian New England where fertile women are kept prisoner in reproductive servitude, has been making […]