8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has been 20 years since the conference that inaugurated Critical Studies in Television . Then, we invited scholars to reflect on the state of play regarding the field, allowing us to consider the multiple disciplinary influences, the breadth of its methodological approaches and future directions.
Editors: Bas Agterberg, Lisa Kerrigan, Dana Mustata, Alistair Scott This special issue of VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture explores creative ways in which media scholars, archivists and practitioners can expand on the possibilities that broadcast archives hold for historical knowledge production.
Organized by Luca Barra, Matteo Marinello, Emiliano Rossi (Università di Bologna), Susanne Eichner (Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam) and Anne-Katrin Weber (Université de Lausanne)
IAMHIST is an international organisation of scholars, filmmakers, broadcasters and archivists dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, TV and other media. The study of film and media histories has long been dominated by western, often Eurocentric perspectives, in terms of content, theory and methodology.
This seminar aims to explore TV-series at their intersection with philosophy. As a newer sibling to the sub-discipline of film-philosophy, TV-philosophy neither reduces television series to illustrations of pre-existing ideas, nor does it simply offer a ‘philosophy of’ a given series by exploring it from a range of philosophical angles. It rather sees TV series as capable of expressing thought through their specific forms.
CFP: Continuity and Change in Media Representation The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 96 (to be published Fall 2025) Special Issue Theme Representation matters has become a popular idiom conveying the transformative power of media representation to reframe cultural narratives and material conditions, often for historically underrepresented groups.
This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of women’s work in and across film, television and related media. The conference seeks to expand women’s film and TV histories by exploring cross-border and cross-medial relationships.
In the 1970s Anglo-American feminist scholars in a variety of disciplines began to explore the problematic representations of women in Hollywood cinema, issues and concerns over female spectatorship, as well as the history of women’s cinema in Hollywood and beyond.
Editors: Dr Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) and James Shelton (Buckinghamshire New University) Contact Email: refocusguyritchie@gmail.com The career of Guy Ritchie encompasses an eclectic selection of films across a number of genres.
The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the history of the audio-visual mass media from c.1900 to the present.
