How many of us define ourselves as doing ‘Television Studies’, and state as such when asked by others what our field is? I ask this following an interesting discussion at the opening plenary at last week’s MeCCSA conference, brilliantly hosted by Bournemouth University.
‘I have this theory that your favourite Sherlock Holmes is the one you grew up with’ Amanda Field, author of The Wartime Files of Sherlock Holmes in Timeshift: ‘How to be Sherlock Holmes: the Many Faces of a Master Detective’ (BBC4, 12 January 2014). It has been hard to escape Sherlock Holmes in 2014.
There are only three sports I enjoy watching on television and each has a unique way of handling the articulation of player interiority through sound and vision.
In the introduction to their 2006 edited collection, Joanne Hollows and Rachel Moseley reflect on the decision to name their book *Feminism in Popular Culture *rather than Feminism and Popular Culture , arguing that ‘the idea of feminism *and *popular culture tends to presume that a “real” and “authentic” feminism exists outside of popular culture, and offers a position to
So, the first blog of the new year. Perhaps it should be about Christmas and television, a reminiscence of the supposed golden age when the nation was united around the tv set? But to be honest, television was a bit boring over Christmas and other people can write better about the two big moments: Matt Smith’s departure from Dr Who and Benedict Cumberbatch’s return from the dead as Sherlock;
Inspired by the countless reviews of 2013 in the New Year press, I started thinking what the best new TV of the last year had been. This is what I came up with. As well as being slightly self-indulgent, it’s also somewhat idiosyncratic. My choices are all drama. With one exception, they all have fantasy elements, and that one exception is definitely TV horror.
There are only three sports I enjoy watching on television and each has a unique way of handling the articulation of player interiority through sound and vision.
There is something bizarrely compelling about watching something that you’ve been told you will disagree with.
On 11th June 2013, the Greek Government reached a decision to close down the, until then, public broadcaster (ERT) citing the rationale that this measure was inevitable and formed part of the “national attempt” to cut down on public spending and meet the terms of Greece’s bailout deal [1]. One month later, on 10th July, the new Greek Public Television(the interim Greek public broadcast service – EDT) emitted its signal via the three
It’s that time of year again. The streets are festooned with lights, mulled wine is on the menu in my local pub, and television is inundated with Christmas ads. We tend not to write that much about advertising in Television Studies, leaving that to Business and Marketing Studies while focusing our attention on the ‘proper’ programmes.
On 11th June 2013, the Greek Government reached a decision to close down the, until then, public broadcaster (ERT) citing the rationale that this measure was inevitable and formed part of the “national attempt” to cut down on public spending and meet the terms of Greece’s bailout deal [1]. One month later, on 10th July, the new Greek Public Television(the interim Greek public broadcast service – EDT) emitted its signal via the three