A group to bring together scholarship and researchers that work with the multifaceted field that is Television Studies – from politics to industries, from fan-based research to Cultural Media Studies approaches to particular shows and/or the histories of and in Television – you name it 🙂
Derek Johnston deposited Time and Identity in Folk Horror in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoKeynote presentation at the UK’s first academic folk horror conference.
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Derek Johnston deposited Season, Landscape and Identity in the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoInvited research presentation given at the University of Reading, 8 October 2015.
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Derek Johnston deposited The Consolations of Horror: Heritage and Tradition in the Televisual Haunted Country House in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoIt has become a standard approach when considering screen presentations that incorporate the country house to examine them in the light of Andrew Higson’s formulation of the heritage drama, which presented an essentially conservative, depoliticised spectacle of grandeur, safely distanced from the reality of the majority of viewers. However, the c…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Repositioning The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953): Predecessors, Comparisons and Origin Narratives in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoWhile there has been a growing acknowledgement of the existence of earlier examples of television science fiction, the typical history of the genre still privileges Nigel Kneale’s The Quatermass Experiment (1953) as foundational. This was a significant production, and an effective piece of television drama, but it was not the first piece of B…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Migrating M.R.James’ Christmas Ghost Stories to Television in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoEach Christmas during his tenure as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, M.R.James would take part in a ritual celebration of Christmas with students and colleagues which invariably culminated with the reading of a ghost story. This tradition drew on a long tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas that can be traced back through the l…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Broadcast Afterlife of the Christmas Ghost Story in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThere is a long tradition in the UK, in England in particular, of the Christmas ghost story. The most famous is probably Dickens’ A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, but close behind are the ghost stories of M.R.James. James wrote many of his stories as Christmas entertainments, but this link was reinforced in the 1970s w…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper focuses on UK and US traditions of seasonal horror at Christmas and Halloween to consider how they provide opportunities for reflection on the causes of fear at liminal times in the calendar. These liminal times contain numerous traditions dedicated to looking back and forward, such as end of year reviews, or addresses from heads of…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Broadcast Seasonal Horror Traditions and Reflecting on Fear in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper focuses on UK and US traditions of seasonal horror on television and radio at Christmas and Halloween to consider how they provide opportunities for reflection on the causes of fear at liminal times in the calendar. These liminal times contain numerous traditions dedicated to looking back and forward, such as end of year reviews, or…[Read more]
Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 1 week agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
Bill Hughes deposited In the Company of Wolves: Wolves, Werewolves, and Wild Children, ed. Sam George & Bill Hughes – Book Launch and Film Screening, 29 February 2020, Odyssey Cinema, St Albans, UK in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months agoYou are cordially invited to a special event to celebrate ten years of the Open Graves, Open Minds project and to launch our new book In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children.
In the Company of Wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety…[Read more]
Ekin Erkan deposited Cryptophasia and the Question of Database in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year agoPostmodernity’s cultural database logic and the consequent filmic characteristics of the digital age were fostered by Lev Manovich’s 1999 essay “The Database as Symbolic Form,” whereby Manovich furthered Roland Barthes’ adoption of Saussurrean sign-systems to describe cultural phenomena. In particular, Manovich applied Saussure’s description…[Read more]
Steven Aoun deposited Question Mark? Mass Murder, the Mass Media and Mental Health in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month agoSeung-Hui Cho, the mass murderer who called himself Question Mark, left a lot of questions behind him. One of them obviously speaks for itself: what motivated him to kill thirty-three strangers at Virginia Tech? Another question almost goes without saying: why do we seek refuge behind moral explanations? Like ‘the question mark kid’ the adult…[Read more]
FĂłrumXXI deposited EvaluaciĂłn de los podcasts de noticias: un acercamiento a emisoras de la ciudad de Puebla in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoEl podcast es una de las diversas herramientas colaborativas que se implementan en el Periodismo Digital, siendo un formato de fácil distribuciĂłn y que puede proporcionar un espacio dinámico y creativo para el profesional de la comunicaciĂłn social. Esta investigaciĂłn pretende evaluar los podcasts que se publican en sitios de noticias de la ciud…[Read more]
FĂłrumXXI deposited La cosmovisiĂłn de la transiciĂłn española en la pelĂcula Juana la loca… de vez en cuando. Un manual para la comprension de la comedia historica de los ochenta in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months agoAunque fue uno de los grandes taquillazos cinematográficos de la Ă©poca, Juana la Loca… de vez en cuando (JosĂ© RamĂłn Larraz, 1983), recibiĂł unas duras crĂticas por parte del pĂşblico especializado, que veĂan en la cinta una penosa manera de hacer cine. Personajes, ambientaciĂłn, guion, interpretaciones, etc., nada escapĂł a la pluma de los crĂticos, q…[Read more]
Cecilia Abate deposited Sexual Violence in American Horror Story, Murder House through Hotel (Raw Data) (Ongoing) in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoA data representation of every incident of sexual violence in American Horror Story, Murder House through Hotel. Broken into 22 metrics, part of an ongoing mapping project. Covers victims/assailant count, genders of both, on screen/off screen representations, nonhuman entities, fatalities, and more.
Erwin Verbruggen started the topic VIEW Journal Managing Editor position in the discussion
Television Studies via email on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months agoDear all,
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
<http://viewjournal.eu> has an open position for a managing editor. Please
let us know if you are aware of interested candidates – or apply yourself
if this is the type of experience you are looking for!VIEW offers an international platform for outstanding academic research…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Exploring Television Seasonality in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis paper will consider the continued significance of television seasonality, even in the era of on-demand and timeshifting. It will draw upon my own research into seasonality and genre, as well as the research of other academics, including that from the special issue of the Journal of Popular Television and the subsequent dossier on Christmas…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Sublime Horror of the English Countryside in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months agoThis paper will explore the use of the English landscape as a source of sublime horror, particularly through a shift in perception from idyllic to ominous. Where Peter Hutchings has indicated the importance of the ‘uncanny landscape’ as a fairly stable location for wrestling with modernity, this chapter will investigate those moments of slippage…[Read more]
Tobias Steiner deposited What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoDiscussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discu…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Rural Returns: Journeys to the Past and the Pagan in Folk Horror in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 7 months agoA central element of the core folk horror texts (The Wicker Man (1973), Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), Witchfinder General (1968)) is the idea of rural communities as retaining pre-Christian practices and beliefs. When uncovered by a modern outsider who is returning to the countryside, these revelations disrupt their world view. Folk horror texts d…[Read more]
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