Film and Screen Studies, School of Media, University of Brighton 27-28 July, 2017 Proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary 2 day conference at the University of Brighton In response to the news of the British government’s imposed changes to junior doctor contracts in 2015, actors from the BBC’s hospital drama Holby City and Channel 4’s […]

After the deaths of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in the last days of 2016, the release of a new documentary about their lives, Bright Lights (HBO, January 2017) feels serendipitous.

On January 13th 2017, the Greek Council of State published its decision which found that the law on which the Greek government auction for the television licenses was based contravenes Greece’s Constitution. According to the decision, the law, brought by former State Minister Nikos Pappas, was against Article 15 of the Constitution.

The perfect set for every home I love going to archives. From my first visits, I knew that this was going to be the most exciting part of my research. As a researcher of television history, I initially expected to spend my time just at the BFI and the BBC Written Archive, but as my research veered towards the material history of the television set I had to be a little more creative.

How do we write using the audiovisual? Many of us are facing this challenge, frustrated by the restrictions of prose-only analyses. One answer is the audiovisual essay, in its poetic and analytic variants. These have recently taken off in the UK, especially in film studies, as a result of the significant loosening of copyright law, which now explicitly allows quotation of audiovisual works for the purposes of critical comment and review.

Kim Akass, University of Hertfordshire, UK Stephen Lacey David Lavery Janet McCabe, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Robin Nelson Rhonda V. Wilcox, Gordon College, USA

Prof. Gary R. Edgerton Butler University, Indiana USA Prof. Michele Hilmes University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Prof. Toby Miller Prof.

Alexander Dhoest, Universiteit Antwerpen Irena Reifova, Univerzita Karlova v Praze David Fernandez-Quijada, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Milly Buonanno, La Sapienza University of Rome Jeanette Steemers, University of Westminster Lothar Mikos, Hochschule fuer Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Potsdam Manuel Jose Damasio, Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon

Stacey Abbott, University of Roehampton Jonathan Bignell, University of Reading Michele Byers, Saint Mary’s John Corner, Liverpool University Glen Creeber, Aberystwyth University Lynne Edwards, Ursinus College John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London Jane Feuer, University of Pittsburgh Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool Dana Heller, Old Dominion University Matt Hills, Aberystwyth

Kim Akass, Managing Editor CSTonline Christine Geraghty, Book Review Editor-in-Chief Simone Knox, ECREA Editor Stephen Lacey, ManagingEditor Janet McCabe, Managing Editor Elke Weissmann, ECREA Editor

Booking is now open for the season of ‘Forgotten TV Dramas’ at BFI Southbank, London in February 2017.