The history of television culture and production
With the BFI, we are organising this two day conference on the history and current state of Channel 4. This is part of BFI Southbank’s celebration of 40 years of Channel 4 in advance of its November anniversary. Royal Holloway’s Read More …
Nick Hall has recently co-authored an article with Jeannine Baker of Macquarie University entitled ‘Rigged against them: Women camera operators at the BBC during the 1970s and 1980s’ . Published in Women’s History Review (31: 4), the article draws upon Read More …
Professor John Ellis discussed his groundbreaking book Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video, first published in 1982, at the ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What’ conference at the University of Kent on 8 July 2022: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/tvaesthetics/ His talk is now available online at Read More …
Along with colleagues Julie Münter Lassen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen from the Universities of Aarhus and Aalborg, J P Kelly presented on their research on video-on-demand [VOD] services, and the need for more data-driven approaches to their study and understanding, Read More …
Lisa Lin’s book on changing production practices in Chinese television ‘Convergent Chinese Television Industries’ has recently been published. The book is based on Lisa’s PhD which was awarded in 2020. Further information on the book may be found here.
The UK’s largest immersive storytelling project StoryTrails is beginning its tour of the UK in 15 locations, starting in Omagh on 1-2 July 2022. Drawing on television archival material from the BBC, the BFI and regional collections, the project involves Read More …
The Department of Media Arts is happy to announce excellent results in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The department’s research outputs, which included books, journals and television productions linked to the work of the Centre, were ranked 2nd for Read More …
A Special Issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (Vol 19:2) on ‘Play for Today at 50’, edited by John Hill, has been published online. In addition to Hill’s contributions this volume includes a range of articles by Read More …
PhD researcher Rose Baker, in collaboration with the Belfast Film Festival and Northern Ireland Screen, will present an archival programme of television material broadcast on Ulster Television from the late-1950s to the late-1960s at the Irish Film Centre, Dublin, on Read More …
CALL FOR PAPERS CHANNEL 4 THEN AND NOW 23-24th September 2022 Channel 4’s first programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1982, 40 years ago. Royal Holloway University of London’s School of Performance and Digital Arts, and Centre for the History Read More …