The history of television culture and production
23 and 24 November 2018 The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, and the History of Forgotten TV Drama project, Royal Holloway, University of London, teamed up with the television archive organisation, Kaleidoscope, to co-host a series of screenings Read More …
A consortium led by James Bennett, Co-Director of the Television Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been named by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as one of nine successful bids to host an ambitious research Read More …
A special issue, on Scottish television drama, of Visual Culture in Britain (Volume 18, Issue 3) inspired by ‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project and drawing on papers delivered at the ‘Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Read More …
A special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Volume 37, Number 1, 2017) edited by Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart, has now appeared. The articles contained in this issue derive from our conference, ‘Television Read More …
John Hill and Lisa Kerrigan of the British Film Institute presented the results of a survey, conducted in association with the Media Studies Commission of FIAT/IFTA, of academic archival access and forms of research collaboration undertaken by members of Fédération Read More …
JP Kelly’s book Time, Technology and Narrative Form in Contemporary US Television Drama: Pause, Rewind, Record has just been published by Palgrave MacMillan. The book examines how television has been transformed over the past twenty years by the introduction Read More …
Broadcast only once – or at most twice – in a time before on-demand, catch-up or the video recorder, most of the drama made for British television up until the early 1980s has lain unseen for decades. Since 2013, the Read More …
In February 2017, Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart programmed a second season of ‘Forgotten Dramas’ at BFI Southbank as part of the AHRC-funded ‘History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project. Here they report on the screenings Read More …