The history of television culture and production
Two researchers, supervised by Professor John Hill and involved in the work of the Centre, have successfully completed their PhDs. Daryl Perrins’ thesis entitled ‘They Can’t Stop Us Singing’: Film, Television and the Representation of the Welsh Working Class’ provides Read More …
Proposals are invited for a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television on the subject of television and cinema transmission. Transmission is one of the key technologies underpinning television and cinema. It is the liminal, ethereal, and often invisible Read More …
Seminar: Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent University) , ‘An elusive object: mapping and making sense of the French and Francophone-Belgian cinema of precarity’: Moore Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London, 17.00 – 19.00 This is the first of a series of Read More …
A special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television ((Vol 20 No3) on film, television and Northern Ireland, co-edited by John Hill and Julian Petley, has just been published. Along with a number of articles on film and 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 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 …