I work in four countries and for the same number of colleges. Much of my time involves garnering frequent-polluter miles, by bus, air, rail, auto, and air-conditioning. As I write, I’m finishing an assignment at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, where a program in Comunicación Social y Periodismo (Social Communication and Journalism) has been located for the last two decades.
In our last blog post, we examined the acting by a female performer in a strong ensemble cast – Jennifer Aniston in Friends (NBC, 1994-2004) – and today we will do the same again.
In the month before the UK General Election on 7 th May, the BFI Mediatheques put together a selection of television programmes which featured elections and voting. We are used to examining how elections are handled on television but unusually this selection included drama and I found myself watching Jack Rosenthal ’s Mr.Ellis Versus The People from 1974, a year in which there were indeed two general elections.
Steven Universe , a Cartoon Network series which premièred in 2013, is about a boy named Steven who lives with a trio of female warrior/superheroes from space. It came to my attention via Twitter friends’ enthusiasm for the many, diverse, and dimensional female characters in the series and the pleasures of its (semi-)serialised narrative.
The sixth episode of the recent season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, ‘Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken,’ ended with Ramsay Bolton raping his new bride, Sansa Stark, as Theon Greyjoy/ Reek is forced to watch.
For Mel *This is our ‘experiment’ together – watching an entire season of The Vikings in two dreamy sittings – the late eve of a romantic Saturday and the full span of an Autumn Sunday.
The University of Salford’s School of Arts and Media recently held a two-day conference dedicated to (re-)exploring the iconic early 90s series *Twin Peaks *(1990-1). The conference had a strong international flavour as academics from Australia, Scandinavia and the US, as well as around the UK, came together to consider the programme and it’s enduring appeal within the uber-modern location of Salford’s recently opened MediaCity
Couple of weeks ago, the ADAPT project, researching the use of technologies in television, undertook an ambitious three day shoot reuniting members of BBC Ealing’s legendary Film Unit with the 16mm equipment they used to use. I lead the project which is funded by the European Research Council from 2013 to 2018.
A 2 Part Blog Part One: Which Genre? In a recent article about the fiction of Angela Carter on Salon.com, Laura Miller discussed the importance of the imagination, fantasy, and fairy tales to Carter’s feminism and praised Carter’s audacity as a feminist of the 1970’s, since that was a period during which feminism was busy restricting itself to austere realism.
A few days ago the Greek public opinion received a huge shock after the Hellenic Police solved the particularly heinous crime that was hidden behind the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl from Bulgaria, who lived with her mother in Athens, Greece. The Hellenic Police Authority informed the public about the arrest of two Bulgarian citizens living in Greece in connection with the murder of their 4-year-old daughter Anny.
One of the great pleasures and challenges of conference organisation is putting interesting and complimentary panels together from the abstracts you receive. Planning that you put into this always pays off in the end, looking at each proposal from several different perspectives, working out the different ways that it could fit in with other papers.