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.
This blog post has first appeared on Will Stanford Abbiss’ personal blog Reading the Visual and is re-published here with the author’s permission. What a couple of days it’s been for a certain type of television-obsessed millennial.
The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.
The Black Lives Matter movement, the trial and conviction of Derek Chauvin, calls to defund the police, the prominence in the media of killer police such as Joseph James DeAngelo are recent manifestations of intense and even unprecedented levels of media attention on policing at interlocking points of race, inequality, social justice and political agendas.
Wastelands: 34TH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES CONFERENCE Madrid 6-8 April 2022 The year 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land . The title of the conference alludes to Eliot’s work and the main themes in it, expanding the idea of the wasteland to the study of the United States.
I have finally watched Hannibal (NBC, 2013-2015). I binged it in less than a week. If you think that is a good sign, think again. I just wanted to get past it. There was no savouring going on or getting addicted. No. On the contrary: I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible. I thought the programme was utterly – and excuse my lack of a better technical term – naff.
SPOILER ALERT and – I guess – ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE: The following text gives away the conclusion to a television show that nobody’s seen in almost 60 years… but which you might well want to enjoy if you’re treating yourself to a rather nice new Blu-ray set. “I thought there were fifty-one episodes of Maigret plus the pilot with someone other than Rupert Davies.
“[W]hen women in the movement use herstory , their purpose is to emphasize that women’s lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories,” wrote the feminist activist Casey Miller and activist/linguist Kate Swift in their publication Words and Women (1976: 135). 40 years later, the goals for equality that second wave feminists like Miller and Swift fought for are far from
Oh, football. It does rather take over, doesn’t it? As one who has oft written of his dependence on the broadcast schedule, I struggle to comprehend why the commencement of another international sporting competition means I can’t watch Have I Got News for You of a Friday evening.
This interview was first published in Welsh on Golwg/Gwerddon On March 15, 2021, Euryn Ogwen Williams, one of the most widely influential and long-standing figures in British broadcasting, passed away. Many obituaries have paid tribute to his longevity, creativity and generosity across a range of broadcasting areas during his long and illustrious career.
Fig. 1: promo banner, Sweet Tooth (Netflix, 2021) We invite chapter proposals (300-500 words) for a volume of essays under contract with Lexington Books. This edited collection will examine how animal characters in film and television serve as protagonists, antagonists, or anti-heroes fulfilling various narrative functions.