I’m revisiting a column from 2020 about the issues listed above, in order to keep up with recent developments. But first, paradoxically, some history. Human rights and sports have long been intertwined in complex ways, along with their coverage by the media. The Spanish Republican government declined to participate in Hitler’s 1936 Olympics because of his anti-semitism. Martin Luther King supported a black boycott of Mexico 1968.

You know this, this blogging lark for these lovely people, all began for me last year when I saw a call for contributions to the CSTOnline website which, I think was called, What Are We Watching? This then became a semi-regular portal into the life of me and my family as well as some not bad jokes, a few corny lines and occasional lapses into me talking about female actors and cheese.

Italian cinema and media: Past and present, continuity and change, expectations for the future Third Edition of the Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies International Conference In person ONLY The American University of Rome 16-18 June 2022 ** ** The year 2022 marks the 10 ^th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the Journal of Italian Cinema &

New Creative Praxis in Film and Television planned for May 6-7, 2022 marks Istanbul Bilgi University’s fourth annual event dedicated to women and media.

In the world of teen drama (or YA drama, as some prefer), there are a number of ways to represent adolescence and its attendant horrors, and we’ve seen a great deal of fantasy-based approaches; beginning with Buffy , some establish that high school is actual hell. But few series come close to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina ’s devotion to that idea.

The language of Ted Lasso is popular culture. The cheesiest of music, the rommiest of Rom-Coms, the deepest of football fan-based love. This makes sense given that the Richmond Football Club is the show’s real star – its pull so precious that it can bring out the best and the worst in people.

Wow, what a year it’s been. If, before the pandemic, people thought television was dead, now we all know how much we rely on it. Television, as Michael Wolff wrote, is the new Television. And in the UK, the years of 2020 and 2021 came with some astounding television: I May Destroy You (BBC, HBO, 2020), Small Axe (BBC, Amazon, 2020), It’s a Sin (Channel 4, HBO Max, 2021) and many more.

Television’s involvement with a contemporary media terrain shaped by COVID-19 has been increasingly sharpened as critical focus has gradually shifted towards understanding and thinking through our still-evolving relationships with the small-screen in pandemic times.

Inclusion is not our biggest challenge, but our greatest untapped opportunity

MR WHEELER: Were you expecting a load of timber, Mr Chaplin? TREVOR CHAPLIN: You know me Mr Wheeler, I never expect anything. So when something turns up, that’s a bonus. The Beiderbecke Connection: Hello Sir, Hello Miss by Alan Plater   Summer semester. Disappointed academics. Many of whom prepared seminars that attracted audiences of none-ish.

What a couple of days it’s been for a certain type of television-obsessed millennial. Firstly, everyone’s favourite so-bad-it’s-good school drama Waterloo Road is returning, after seven years away, two definitely-demolished locations and a fanbase that definitely aren’t still teenagers. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.