Fig. 1: The Bakery Café in Christmas Town (2019) Ext. Day Long shot of snow covered small town. As the camera gets closer to the town lights on trees become visible. It begins to snow. Dissolve to Interior day. Mid shot of a woman sat at a computer typing. By the side of the key board is a cup steaming slightly with hot chocolate, whipped cream, mini marshmallows and a candy cane.
The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.
Dear Santa, That’s 2020 almost over and done with. Again, I’ve tried very hard to be good. When Boris has told me not to go out, I’ve not gone out. And I’ve done my best to see if I can help people who are struggling. So – and you’re probably expecting this already – would it be possible to get La La Land Records’ four-disc set of the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968) soundtrack please?
Fig. 1: The one thing I want it’s something I know I can’t have (…) I love you. I decided to write this because I felt an almost divine force compelling me to have everybody in TV studies aware of what is happening in a certain corner of the internet. Where to begin. I’ll start with the show itself. Supernatural (2005-2020) was an American television programme that aired on The CW network for 15 years.
The post originally appeared on the Syracuse University Press blog on December 1, 2020. So, about a year ago, I was watching that Breaking Bad film on Netflix and Watchmen on HBO, and I was still thinking about the Deadwood movie from the previous spring.
“SERIES. International Journal of TV Serial Narratives” (https://series.unibo.it) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal, with ISSN and, indexed in major international databases. It publishes 2 issues per year and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.
The western was once seen as a key genre for understanding both Hollywood and the culture of the United States more broadly, but studies of the genre are few and far between today (Corkin, 2004; Nelson, 2015;
Legitimacy justifies the acts and authority of social groups and organisations and makes them acceptable to other social members. As a global health crisis that sweeps the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has provoked a crisis of legitimacy that social actors and institutions face over their responses to or roles in the pandemic. Meanwhile, however, the pandemic may also open up opportunities for them to gain legitimacy.
June 17-18, 2021 Berlin (Germany) Deadline: February 10, 2021 A Japanese-German Conference and Edited Volume (2022) Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become.
Back in July 2020, the BBC began screening its new Sunday night serial on BBC One in an attempt to bring an adaptation of Vikram Seth’s very long, 1993 novel to a mainstream British audience. This blog is not a review of the serial, nor of the critical response to it, which, for reasons which will become clear, would take a lot more time and effort than I currently have.
The circle is now complete.