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Author CSTonline

Disclaimer:  This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal Viewing: Subscription Video-on-Demand Platforms and Watch Parties. For further details, you can visit the link provided by Turkish Council of Higher Education Thesis Center. Although communal viewing is often associated with the moviegoing experience;

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Author Kim Akass

I initially started writing this blog on Tuesday (we’ll certainly remember, remember, this 5 th of November).  Currently living in America (although not for much longer – I’m one of the lucky ones) and a TV scholar, I watched the television advertising campaign for the presidential race with equal parts fascination and horror. I am sure that, across the globe, everyone is still reeling from the shock of the results.

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Author Melissa Beattie

‘The ghosts of the Confederacy will not die.’- Colonel Anderson (Kurt Smallwood); 1.1   One of the hallmarks of Western films—here meant in the sense of ‘Spaghetti’ rather than ‘the West’ —is the idea of the cowboy/gunslinger riding off into the sunset, either alone or possibly with one or more of his fellows.

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Author Christa van Raalte

Production Managers (PMs) in television production are mainly female, and as in other industries this ‘feminised’ role is typically afforded lower status than those predominantly performed by men. In our recent study, we explored the experiences of PMs in the UK industry, a group of workers who are often rendered invisible, both within the industry and in television scholarship.

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Author Lucy Brown

“Chilling,” “a dark delight,” “magnificent,” “triumphant,” and “explosive” are all words that have been used to describe the British police crime thriller Happy Valley.[1]  First screened in 2014, it reached an audience of over 8 million and became a hit with critics and the audience alike.

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Author Uroosa Rashid

Backstage and background While attending the 2024 CST Conference: Sustainability and Television, which ran from 24 th June to the 4 th of July, the question of representation of British Asians in relation to equality and diversity arose. Equality and diversity are further elements of the UN’s sustainable development goals.

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Author Christopher Pullen

In this blog, I offer an autoethnographical account of what it means for TV scholars to take part in the conference continuum, which I argue is both familiar and strange in every iteration. Whether you are an ardent follower of certain large-scale conferences, or a serial “dipper in” to a plethora of small-scale events, you might not realise how to “find your fit” – when you turn up, dust off your boots, and reach for the microphone or