The history of television culture and production
As part of her TECHNE-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the BFI and BBC, PhD researcher Katie Crosson has curated an overview of Play for Today for BBC Canvas which may be viewed here: https://canvas-story.bbcrewind.co.uk. /playfortodayat50/. Her post for the BFI Read More …
Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Nick Hall and John Ellis, and containing articles by ADAPT project researchers John Ellis, Nick Hall and Amanda Murphy, is now available as an open Read More …
As part of the ADAPT project into the history of the uses of television technology, both Tim Heath and Rowan Aust have now successfully completed their PhDs on the history of British television production practices. Tim’s research focused on the Read More …
The ADAPT Social Media Project team has now published their final report: ‘Adapting to Social Media: Commerce, Creativity and Competition in UK Television Production’ by James Bennett and Niki Strange (May 2018). The report is free to download here. The 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 …
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 …