‘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.

Spanish television programming has undergone a major shift in recent months, with the access-to-prime-time slot becoming the new battlefield for viewership, attracting the attention of media and audiences alike.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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

Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the conference presentation titled “(A)Sexual or (De)Sexual (Re)presentations of Childhood: Tracing Split Attraction Model in Big Mouth (2017-2024)”, at the Queer Children’s Film and Television Symposium 2024.

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.

A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is unorthodox but offers an alternative and marginalised perspective. Typically, when thinking of climate change, David Attenborough, Britain’s national treasure, comes to mind.