It’s become a bit of a truism that, ‘these are strange and dangerous times’. But I am not referring to Covid. I am writing this on the 29 th September, and we have found out that the US president is in that much debt that he cannot borrow anymore locally and is thus indebted to foreign powers. And yet, he is still president.
Our digital TV has just updated its interface, without asking us. This confirms my long-held suspicion that TV tech has just become too complicated for TV users. This is alienating viewers. Many users now concentrate on a narrow band of potential choices, or to abandon TV for other pursuits. A huge number of users, particularly in older age groups, tend to blame themselves for their ‘technological naivete’ or clumsiness.
My wife and I love elephants. They seem to be such caring, gentle creatures. And because of the shaping of their mouths behind their trunks, we graft that onto what we associate with human physiognomy and assume that they’re smiling and so that therefore these are happy animals. So we love them. We have a little elephant of our own. Well, I say ‘our own’, but he’s a bit more of a time-share really.
Glastonbury 2020 had no mud, no rain, no twelve-hour traffic tailbacks or the costly clean-up in the aftermath of 200,000 plus festival goers leaving behind Worthy Farm for another year.
Key findings from a new report by the Danish Film Institute. By Petar Mitric and Pia Majbritt Jensen
In the first part of this blog, my discussion of Dark concentrates on the ways in which the series stands out in relation to other examples of complex television in two senses, in the considerably higher level of complexity of plot and narrative and in the self-referential relationship to this complexity.
A research opportunity In the days when we were all confined to our homes, new research opportunities arrived.
After a quiet 2019, I had a slew of conferences lined up for 2020. Little did I know what was going to happen as I left the first of them in January, an enjoyable MeCCSA conference in Brighton.
After the release of its third and final season in June, mind-boggling time-travel series Dark reached its completion to resounding critical acclaim, making this the right moment to evaluate the first European Netflix original.
Right then – a new academic year. And that’s why I can see some new faces out there. Well, there’s a lot of questions that you’re going to be bombarded with as you make your way through Television Studies in the coming years. Questions like ‘Is That Argument Strong Enough?’, ‘Why Have You Missed All This Semester’s Seminars?’ and ‘What Do You Mean You’ve Never Heard Of VHS?’. Oh, and I hope you like figs.
