Watching the recent Severance season 2 finale “Cold Harbour,” I became increasingly intrigued with the show’s explorations of selfhood and autonomy, whereby the ‘innies’ are disposable tools – they are seen no longer as souls but are a distillation of Byung-Chul Han’s notion in Psychopolitics that “ persons are being positivized into things , which can be quantified, measured and steered” (2017, 12). The show
‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at Work I feel like I have talked about this before (Beattie 2022;
The CHANSE ERA-NET project DIGISCREENS: “ Identities and democratic values on European digital screens: Distribution, reception, and representation ” is coming to an end in December 2025, and we would like to invite you to attend our final conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the 23rd and 24th of October . Confirmed keynotes: Cathrin Bengesser (Aarhus University) Ramon Lobato (Swinburne University of
I’m passionate about the written word but conversely, I’ve turned to digital media to encourage people to read.
I write biographies. So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era Irish director, Rex Ingram. I have other entries on my CV too, more usually conventional academic publications on Irish cinema. The biographies, which are slipped in between the monographs and articles are, and are not, similar. They are designed for a wider, general audience and written with that readership in mind.
It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television. The twentieth anniversary gives us an opportunity to pause and consider where our subject is and might go. We will host a range of international scholars who will discuss television studies as a discipline.
NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies Journal focusing upon Star Trek: Enterprise which I am guest-editing (CFP open until 15 June). As a lifelong fan of the Star Trek franchise and a lifelong queer person (even if it took me a few decades to figure it out),[i] it is hard to overstate the joy I felt upon learning that Star Trek: Lower Decks (Paramount+
This talk explores the articulation of food and television through an analysis of the soap opera genre and their transmedia cookbooks. Whilst debates on food & literature and food & film have been researched extensively, the relationship of food & television remains relatively underexplored (Murray, 2012; Oren, 2003). This limited work has tended to focus on the cookery programme genre (Strange, 1998;
Last week, Kim Akass blogged about how the US press response to Adolescence (Netflix, 2025) made visible certain blind spots in a culture seemingly unable to identify that a particular kind of masculinity might be a problem. Akass read this very much through a prism of Trump, and I here want to continue this focus in order to add further consideration to the question of why a convicted felon was elected president by the American people.
Everyone is talking about Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s latest venture: the 4-part series, Adolescence, that hit Netflix screens on March 13 th . https://cstonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/videoplayback.mp4
A CREAM, University of Westminster Conference June 19th and 20th 2025, University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus, LONDON, NW1 5LS Organisers Dr. Christopher Hogg – C.Hogg@westminster.ac.uk (University of Westminster) Dr. Kate McNicholas Smith – K.McNicholassmith@westminster.ac.uk (University of Westminster) Dr. Douglas McNaughton – D.Mcnaughton@brighton.ac.uk (University of Brighton)