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 🙂
Martin Boehnert deposited Three Guys And A Girl In Space. Genderkonstruktion in den Sci-Fi Animes Captain Future, Saber Rider und Cowboy Bebop in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 3 days, 1 hour agoAnhand der Science-Fiction Animes “Captain Future”, “Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs” und “Cowboy Bebop” wird eine bestimmtes Narrativ innerhalb des Genres des Science-Fiction Anime stichprobenartig ĂĽber drei Jahrzehnte hinweg betrachtet und die vorzufindenden Geschlechterkonstruktionen beleuchtet: Jede dieser Erzählungen handelt von den A…[Read more]
Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 6 days agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
Reba Wissner deposited No time like the past: Hearing nostalgia in The Twilight Zone in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks agoOne of Rod Serling’s favourite topics of exploration in The Twilight Zone (1959–64) is nostalgia, which pervaded many of the episodes of the series. Although Serling himself often looked back upon the past wishing to regain it, he did, however, understand that we often see things looking back that were not there and that the past is often ide…[Read more]
Avi Santo wrote a new post Reminder: Film Criticism Special Issue on Film & Merchandise (submission deadline: May 1) in the group
Television Studies: on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week agoFilm Criticism Special Issue on Film & Merchandise Call For Papers (November 2018)
Guest editors: Dr. Elizabeth Affuso (Pitzer College) and Dr. Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)
Despite Jane Gaine […]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Transmediales Erzählen im narrativen Universum von “Game of Thrones” in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoEnglish title: “Transmedia Storytelling in the narrative universe of ‘Game of Thrones'” — This essay’s aim is to briefly introduce the concept of Transmedia Storytelling and to provide a showcase analysis and review of the serial TV narrative of GAME OF THRONES in order to show how a television series’ narrative universe, driven by both producers…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Tobias Steiner deposited TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today // Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoSyllabus of BA seminar “Historische Entwicklung US-amerikanischer Fernsehserien von 1950 bis heute” aka. “TV or not TV? Historical Development of US American Serial Television from the 1950s up to today” held during Winter semester 2013/14 at Universität Hamburg, Germany.
Avi Santo started the topic CFP: Special issue of Film Criticism on film & merchandise in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months agoApologies for cross-listing. Elizabeth Affuso and I are co-editing a special issue of Film Criticism focused on film & merchandise. Essays should be submitted by May 1, 2018. The issue is scheduled for publication in November 2018. The CFP is below.
Appreciatively,
Avi Santo
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Film Criticism Special Issue on film & merchandise Call For Pa…[Read more]Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months agoCFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present:Â The Urban Weird
University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018
The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]
Bill Hughes started the topic CFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present: The Urban Weird in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months agoCFP: OGOM & Supernatural Cities present:Â The Urban Weird – University of Hertfordshire, 6-7 April, 2018
The OGOM Project is known for its imaginative events and symposia, which have often been accompanied by a media frenzy. We were the first to invite vampires into the academy back in 2010. Our most recent endeavour, Company of Wolves:…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited “Have you ever tried to un-make soup?” Legion’s roller-coaster ride through the Sixties in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoLegion, one of the most recent iterations of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) on television, takes an unconventional road to remediating the 1960s as a cultural period.
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Tobias Steiner deposited Meticulous world-building in Space: The Expanse, and the current resurgence of Science Fiction on TV in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoThis CSTOnline blog post takes a look at the current resurgence of science fiction on television, and discusses these recent trends along the example of The Expanse, an adaptation of the successful space opera penned by scifi author James S. A. Corey.
Sherry Truffin deposited Trying to Tell ‘The Truth’: Metafiction and Historiographic Metafiction in The X-Files in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months agoThe X-Files may be one of the most popular forms of historiographic metafiction, as Linda Hutcheon defines the term, ever produced. The show is, among other things, an extended meditation on the inescapability and elusiveness of history, both personal and public. At the center of the show is Fox Mulder’s personal history—his obsession with the mem…[Read more]
Brenna Wardell deposited National Identity and Global Televison: Re-making Australia’s Rake for American Audiences in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 4 weeks agoExamines the differences between Australian and American television and the difficulties posed by the American re-make of the Australian TV series Rake.
Donna Maria Alexander deposited “Love American Style”: Race, Cuban Identity and Cultural Tyranny in Showtime’s Dexter in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks agoThis article focuses on representation of Cubans in the television series Dexter, paying particular attention to episode 1.5, “Love American Style” with some brief references to other episodes. Assimilation, the American Dream, nationalism and crisis of identity are among the themes and issues that this article investigates. Border theory pro…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited “FlashForward”: an experiment in Collective Memory Studies in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago“The thesis investigates the case of the modern Television drama series FlashForward and sets out to chart the employment of concepts of Collective Memory Studies in the narrative in order to reflect upon the ways of how social perceptions of the past and Collective Memory are remediated in the course of the narrative.
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