WHEREFORE ART THOU? THE ROMEO SECTION by Melissa Beattie
Because of the ambiguities inherent in the job, spy dramas tend to have morally grey characters,...
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Call for proposals: B-TV: Television Under the Critical Radar
Original call here. Exploitation. Lowbrow. Cult. Underground. Trash. Poverty Row. Programmers....
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Call for Proposals: TV Matters
Editor: Sabrina Mittermeier View the full call here >> https://intellectbooks.com/tv-matters...
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AN OTHER[ED] PLACE: NHK’S SOMEWHERE STREET by Melissa Beattie
I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries. While I often enjoy...
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MOVING WITH THE TIMES: AN UPDATE FROM CSTONLINE by Toby Steiner, Sarah Lahm, and Kim Akass
First of all, a happy New Year – we at CSTonline hope you have all had a good winter break. And...
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SUB-CULTURE CLUB by Andrew Pixley
Santa has been very kind to me again this year. You may recall that in recent years she’s been...
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ACTING LIKE KIDS: CHILD ACTORS PERFORMING COMEDY IN THE BRADY BUNCH by Ellie McFarlane
In the 1960s and 70s, US TV networks were broadcasting a plethora of situation comedies, many of...
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LOADED DICE: FUTURAMA’S (PSEUDO-)INDIGENOUS MARTIANS by Melissa Beattie
Science fiction and comedy are often used for social commentary and animated sf/fantasy sitcom...
Read MoreCall for Submissions – Special Dossier: Television
Please see below our new call for a special dossier on Television, to be published in the second half of 2025 in Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture. https://revistas.usp.br/significacao/announcement/view/1841...
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“LIVE” FROM NEW YORK, IT’S (POSTMODERN) SATURDAY NIGHT! by Douglas L. Howard
In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his...
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PHILIPPA BREWSTER – 29 DECEMBER 1949 – 15 OCTOBER 2024 by Kim Akass, with comments by Janet McCabe
I have been sitting here staring at a blank screen for nearly an hour. That isn’t counting the 2...
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CFP: Television Comedy Representations of Adult Children and Their Parents: Making Humour from Intergenerational Conflict in English Language Programming.
Editors: Ellie Tomsett and Hazel Collie Family dynamics have long been an area of comic...
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CFP Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025 Television Studies and CST: The Past, the Present and the Future
8-10 July 2025 Edge Hill University, St James Campus, Manchester Oxford Road and online It has...
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FROM KAISERPANORAMA TO VIRTUAL WATCH PARTIES: REDEFINING COMMUNAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE(S) by Enes Akdag
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal...
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CFP: Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism, June 27-29, 2025
Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia June 27-29, 2025 In the contemporary media landscape,...
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