It’s safe to say that I have been a fan of period dramas since I watched the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice many years ago. As a staple of this genre at large, Jane Austen is not the only party guilty of inherent Whiteness as a pillar of achievement.
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 2 issues per year and is mainly devoted to television seriality. It is a joint project by Universitat Politècnica de València (Escola Politècnica Superior de Gandia/DCADHA) and Università di Bologna.
**** Please note this is an up-dated posting for a volume originally entitled, The Platinum Age of American Television **** Title: When American Television Became American Literature Publisher: Brill Publishers (European Perspectives on the United States series) Editor: Ben Alexander Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu Brill is interested in publishing a volume that broadly addresses American television series produced between
*There are only two possible conclusions from listening to [Trump’s] folly: either the President actually believes what he is saying, in which case he is crazy, or he does not, in which case he is engaged in the most cynical attack on American democracy ever to come from the White House. * — Author, editor, and journalist, Susan B. Glasser, 3 December 2020 ( The New Yorker )
TV viewing has become more important during the pandemic, but a sense of shame still lingers around it. Even TV scholars still use the term ‘guilty pleasures’ to describe their enjoyment of a particular reality TV format or even of series which attract some of the biggest viewing audiences like Strictly Come Dancing (Dancing with […]
Michaela Cole may have started writing I May Destroy You (BBC One 2020-) as a means of overcoming her own sexual assault and trauma, but the by-product of this 12 part, widely acclaimed TV series, has meant numerous others are helped too.
Bear with me. I haven’t thought this one through. And I’ve still not yet worked out if I’ll be able to use the word barquentine in it or not… One of the great things about being in touch with m’colleague Hannah Cooper at CSTonline is that she will flag up things which she thinks you might well be interested in.
EuropeNow , the online journal of the Council for European Studies invites contributions for its September 2021 issue on European culture and the moving image in all its varied forms. This issue of EuropeNow seeks contributions that explore how images imagine European community as they move on all our screens from cinema, television, streaming, to gaming, vr, and beyond;
Editor: Andrew J. Ball, Harvard University Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for a forthcoming general issue. We welcome work that focuses on matters of embodiment in media arts from any of the disciplinary or methodological perspectives described below. Research articles are typically between 6k–9k words.
Evolving global screen environments in the last decade have triggered fundamental changes to the phenomena previously understood as the “transnational,” as content creators articulate new forces that connect and at times separate people and institutions across national and cultural borders.
Dr Michael Samuel (Warwick) and Dr Louisa Mitchell (Independent Scholar) **contact email: **asiapacificscreencultures@gmail.com To the surprise of analyst expectations, at the end of 2019 Netflix recorded a record-high growth in subscribers and revenue outside of the United States, specifically in its Asia-Pacific region.
