The Trump administration prompted a space for dissent, critique and counter positioning within the media. Inevitably its extreme agenda had an impact on television. Trump’s rhetoric was so problematic that there would inevitably be responses to his views and policies within a range of television programming. The divisive language represented the then President’s emphasis upon borders, exclusion and enemies, both outside and within the USA.

The very first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC, 1969-1974) asked ‘Whither Canada?’, which is an interesting question for a former coloniser to ask of her former colony (and current member of the Commonwealth).

Televisuality , as theorised by John T. Caldwell in 1995, allows for a holistic view on the unique properties of television as industrial product, technology, aesthetic form, and object of cultural discourse and audience engagement.

Fig. 1: Logo of ITVX In my first CST blog, over 10 years ago now, I confessed that I was a late adopter of television and its technologies.

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Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023: The Disney, Culture and Society’s First Annual Conference celebrating 1 year of DisNet! Monday 26th June – Friday 30th June 2023 An international, multi-billion dollar media conglomerate, the Walt Disney Company has been in our lives since 1923.

This collection initially examines cinematic, televisual, literary, visual and poetic representations of body parts who are vitalized, autonomized, individuated and animated. They become independent entities with a mind of their own.

Screening Spaces of Youth Symposium Online (Zoom), 2 June 2023 “Screening Spaces of Youth” aims to bring together scholars interested in the representation of youth in audiovisual texts media, including cinema, television and other media. More specifically, this one-day online symposium places its focus on onscreen representations of spaces of youth.

I have been writing about Samuel Beckett’s film and television plays for over 20 years, but until recently I had not studied screen adaptations of his theatre plays. A new collection of essays about adaptations of Beckett’s work after his death in 1989 gave me an opportunity to write about the Beckett on Film project (2001) that adapted all 19 of his theatre plays.

Nuns have a presence in cinema as longstanding as the medium itself, including the 1922 horror film Haxan . 2021’s Benedetta , a controversial but successful Paul Verhoeven film, is a recent restatement of the capacity for stories about women religious, or women in vocation normally called nuns, to be the source of powerful and successful works across all conceivable genres.

The election of President Trump, plus the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have invigorated cultural reckoning about the role of popular culture plays in creating the conditions for inequity and exploitation.