In Visible Man (1924), Béla Balázs predicted that the cinema would rescue the face from illegibility.

TELEVISING THE SOCIALIST BODY.

A special issue of Feminist Media Studies Co-edited by Jilly Boyce Kay (School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK) &

There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children’s television and literature of the late C20th. In particular, the 1970s and 1980s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of our contemporary cultural landscape.

Full paper submission deadline: January 31st, 2020 “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 two issues per year, and is mainly devoted to television seriality.

My last blog for CSTonline (a response to Toby Miller’s first blog of this academic year) talked about my experiences of moving to America and setting up a new life.  Whereas Toby hadn’t quite got wired up for TV, I had, but that still didn’t stop me bemoaning the loss of familiar UKTV and bellyaching about how difficult it was to negotiate the amount of channels available to me in the US. ‘Spoilt brat’ some might say.

“Seven,” sighed the post-graduate admissions tutor in the campus corridor. This integer clearly caused unhappiness. I didn’t know if it was an irrational hatred of odds in general or primes in particular, or bad life experiences with samurai, brides or brothers. “The average number of people likely to read a postgraduate dissertation,” they added, specifying the cause of their disenchantment.

Factual television, as an academic area of interest, has become quite vogue. Not content, merely to look on from afar and research a variety of factual TV programming, some academics have decided to take part in some of the said programmes.

‘And we are LIVE… Hello from Europe, hello from the ECREA Television Studies Section’. I think we should make more of a song and dance of it, don’t you? When I originally came across TV Studies in 1998, I don’t think much European Television Studies did yet exist.

David came in, and what you had was long-form storytelling. Characters that were nuanced, stories that were nuanced, that required your attention and required you to follow it. Nothing was wrapped up at the end of one episode or one hour. It continued. It was sort of like a novel. I think it’s a visual novel – the way he looked at it. People look at television, and you see the lead character, and you think that’s the protagonist.

Historically, media studies scholars have shied away from sports-related media texts due to a variety of perceived challenges: the sheer volume of texts (there’s always something on), their inaccessibility (the texts are ephemeral and controlled by corporate archives), the ambivalence of sports cultures (at once masculine and mainstream), and more.