The history of television culture and production
Launched by the BBC in 1985 as a successor to Play for Today, Screen Two featured an eclectic range of over 150 single dramas, including The Firm, Edward II, Priest, Contact and Truly, Madly, Deeply. On the occasion of its Read More …
Professor John Hill and PhD student Rose Baker were both speakers at the Irish Screen Studies Seminar at Ulster University, Belfast, 7-8 May 2024. John delivered a keynote address on Irish screen studies in tribute to his friend and former Read More …
The FIAT/IFTA Media Studies Commission is hosting an international seminar ‘Rethinking Broadcast Archives: Dig, Deconstruct, Display’ at BFI Southbank, London on December 8th 2023. This will bring researchers and media professionals together to consider archival opportunities and new ways of engaging Read More …
All are invited to the following event: Material Ecologies of Media and Their Histories 22-23 June 2023, Senate House, London, Room 104 Organised by Olga Goriunova, David Young, JP Kelly, Nick Hall and Hugh Hammond Supported by the Department of Read More …
An internal conference on the future of television studies involving television researchers in the School of Performing and Digital Arts who will discuss their work and the future direction of television studies both within the School and the discipline more Read More …
The proceedings if the ‘Channel 4: Then and Now’ conference are now available to view. Held at BFI Southbank, 23-4 September 2022 on the occasion of the Channel’s 40th anniversary, the conference covered a wide range of topics, both past Read More …
‘Channel 4: Then and Now’ will be streaming live, this Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September, 10.00-17.00 UK time https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXvkgGofjDzj1vXLyi9a6BFBFLRZa2jQB Tickets for the in-person event may also be purchased from the British Film Institute. Ticket details are here John Ellis Read More …
The BBC at 100 Symposium is taking place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online, 13-15 September 2022. Organised by BBC 100 History Fellow, Marcus Collins, the symposium aims to take stock of research about the Read More …
With the BFI, we are organising this two day conference on the history and current state of Channel 4. This is part of BFI Southbank’s celebration of 40 years of Channel 4 in advance of its November anniversary. Royal Holloway’s 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 …