Christine Geraghty
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View article: Notes on Contributors
Notes on Contributors Open
View article: TAKING (SOME) TELEVISION SERIOUSLY
TAKING (SOME) TELEVISION SERIOUSLY Open
Some of you may have seen the announcement of an issue of Open Philosophy (2022; 5:1) which is devoted to a ‘Topical issue: Ethics and Politics of TV Series’ or, as the editorial explains, ‘Taking TV Series Seriously’. The edito…
View article: ”I WANTED TO TELL THESE STORIES SO THAT MY MOTHER COULD ACCESS THEM”. IS STEVE MCQUEEN’S SMALL AXE CINEMA OR TELEVISION? AND DOES IT MATTER?
”I WANTED TO TELL THESE STORIES SO THAT MY MOTHER COULD ACCESS THEM”. IS STEVE MCQUEEN’S SMALL AXE CINEMA OR TELEVISION? AND DOES IT MATTER? Open
Last year, Ian Greaves wrote an illuminating CST blog about the ‘turmoil’ COVID had created for the film journal Sight & Sound . As Greaves discusses, lockdown saw the return of extended reviews of new television in Sig…
View article: THE HARDER THEY FALL: THE WORKINGS OF POLICE PROCEDURAL DRAMA IN LINE OF DUTY AND BETWEEN THE LINES
THE HARDER THEY FALL: THE WORKINGS OF POLICE PROCEDURAL DRAMA IN LINE OF DUTY AND BETWEEN THE LINES Open
On 2nd May 2021, on a Sunday night, the BBC serial Line of Duty (2012-) ended its 6th series in a finale which was watched by an average of 12.8 million viewers a record for the World Productions-produced BBC police corruption drama.
View article: CAREERING TO DISASTER? A BOOK REVIEWER COMMENTS ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING
CAREERING TO DISASTER? A BOOK REVIEWER COMMENTS ON ACADEMIC PUBLISHING Open
A few months ago, I was holding a book that I was going to review. I noted with a start the sheer pleasure of handling it. Everything – from the cover to the evocative illustrations to the quality of the paper to the clear typeface – was a…
View article: Book Review: Landcapes of Detectorists
Book Review: Landcapes of Detectorists Open
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Index Open
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Front matter Open
View article: What is the ‘Television’ of the <i>European Journal of Cultural Studies</i>? Reflections on 20 years of the study of television in the Journal
What is the ‘Television’ of the <i>European Journal of Cultural Studies</i>? Reflections on 20 years of the study of television in the Journal Open
Over 20 years, the European Journal of Cultural Studies has been an important resource for those writing and thinking about television, and this article reflects on the rich material contained in the long run of issues published since 1998…
View article: KEN LOACH, THE PRESS AND THE BBC
KEN LOACH, THE PRESS AND THE BBC Open
Ken Loach is surely the patron saint of British film and television studies – venerated for his early work with Tony Garnett and others for making British television drama a national event (fig 1); admired for the prizes (and finance) he h…
View article: CAN YOU TURN IT UP A BIT?: HEARING DIALOGUE IN MODERN TV DRAMA
CAN YOU TURN IT UP A BIT?: HEARING DIALOGUE IN MODERN TV DRAMA Open
Television often has subtitles in my household and not just when we are watching Euro-dramas on BBC4. I hadn’t given much thought to this until I read an excellent article on the topic by Maggie Brown in the Royal Television Society’s maga…
View article: THE NIGHT MANAGER AND THE FUTURE OF BBC DRAMA
THE NIGHT MANAGER AND THE FUTURE OF BBC DRAMA Open
One of the games played in the run-up to the BBC Charter renewal process (a process which is likely to be particularly brutal this time) is for critics to identify those programmes which can be used by BBC negotiators to put the Corporatio…
View article: FACES AND LANDSCAPES: THE CHANGING LOOK OF TELEVISION DRAMA
FACES AND LANDSCAPES: THE CHANGING LOOK OF TELEVISION DRAMA Open
Episode 4 of the Icelandic drama Trapped (2015), currently showing on BBC 4, finished with a spectacular avalanche. The avalanche had been predicted by one of the characters who then triggered it in the hope of diverting it away…
View article: CHARACTER, NARRATIVE AND SPOILERS IN THE BBC’S DICKENSIAN
CHARACTER, NARRATIVE AND SPOILERS IN THE BBC’S DICKENSIAN Open
Christmas is long gone and some of its televisual pleasures have been explored in the CST blogs by Kenneth Longden (https://cstonline.net/bbc-christmas and https://cstonline.net/sherlock-abominable) and Lorna Jowett (https://cstonline.net/…
View article: CROSSOVERS AND COLLABORATIONS: PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A LEGACY AND THE DRESSER ARRIVES ON TELEVISION
CROSSOVERS AND COLLABORATIONS: PRODUCTION DESIGN IN A LEGACY AND THE DRESSER ARRIVES ON TELEVISION Open
Television scholars of my generation tend to have a reflex towards medium specificity, a desire to establish what it was about television that made it television. That was useful in the days when we were trying to emerge from a range of di…
View article: ELECTION DRAMA 1974 AND 2015 – THE POLLING BOOTH ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN
ELECTION DRAMA 1974 AND 2015 – THE POLLING BOOTH ON THE TELEVISION SCREEN Open
In the month before the UK General Election on 7 th May, the BFI Mediatheques put together a selection of television programmes which featured elections and voting. We are used to examining how elections are handled on televis…
View article: REMEMBERING TELEVISION DRAMA
REMEMBERING TELEVISION DRAMA Open
Remembering television drama: ‘Television Drama: the Forgotten, the Lost and the Neglected’ Conference, April, 2015 Despite the tendency in television studies to emphasise the contemporary, British tel…
View article: INTO THE WOODS WITH JOHN YORKE: TELEVISION AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURES
INTO THE WOODS WITH JOHN YORKE: TELEVISION AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURES Open
I quite often think of myself as an old-fashioned structuralist (as my 1981 essay on narrative and Coronation Street showed) and am quite embarrassed to think about the number of first year students I attempted to introduce to t…
View article: THE PERILS OF SERIES TWO – THE BATTERING OF BROADCHURCH
THE PERILS OF SERIES TWO – THE BATTERING OF BROADCHURCH Open
You have to feel sorry for Broadchurch creator, Chris Chibnall.