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This blog post was originally published by the AHRC. Photograph by Ian Davies After The Fast Show , how does one present jazz on television?

Both disability studies and comic studies are a continually growing field for academic departments across the globe. Scholars have noticed the increasing presence of their intellectual approaches in political and philosophical theorizing both inside and outside of the academy.

Call for Chapters for Book Proposal The editors are seeking chapter proposals for a collection of essays that examine positive, healthy, and accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media.

Call for Submissions: At the Edge Media Fields Journal University of California, Santa Barbara Submission Deadline: September 28, 2018

There has been a long relationship between television and medicine: some of the small screen’s most popular shows, on both sides of the Atlantic, have been medical in focus, from hospital-set dramas like ER to reality TV shows and docudramas like One Born Every Minute . This fascination with doctors, hospitals and bodies is also shared by period drama television, but scholarship has paid little attention to this

Like Proust and his madeleine, the simple act of eating in Anthony Bourdain’s television shows usually became an occasion for memory. Whether it was over mohinga in Yangon, egusi soup in Lagos, or clams at the Jersey shore, sharing a meal with Bourdain often became a portal to the past: to one’s childhood; to memories of family and community;

Acting in British Television & Exploring Television Acting Book Launch: June 30th, 18.00 – 20.30 Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street Dr Christopher Hogg (University of Westminster) and Dr Tom Cantrell (University of York) will launch two new publications on television acting, Acting in British Television &

I am writing this blog during Season Two of Hulu’s TV production of The Handmaid’s Tale ; a drama about state-sanctioned oppression of sexual and gender non-conformity set in the  fictional Republic of Gilead*.*   It’s tough viewing; its promises of hope, freedom and redemption always deferred to the next episode via cliff-hangers, misdirection and plot twists.

This blog sketches out some of the ideas that account for recent TV drama’s formal strategies due to the growing complexity of television narrative.

This blog post has first been published on Filmicon.   Growing up as a child of first-generation Greek-Australian migrants had countless privileges. But being different from the dominant white demographic was something I did not look too favourably upon, at that time anyway.