The history of television culture and production
TV Centre associate, Lydia Yeoman has successfully passed her PhD entitled ‘Magical Realism, Emotion, and Gendered Television Forms: A Practice-Based Enquiry’. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Adam Ganz, examines the emergence of magical realism in American prime-time television during the 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 …
Two researchers, supervised by Professor John Hill and involved in the work of the Centre, have successfully completed their PhDs. Daryl Perrins’ thesis entitled ‘They Can’t Stop Us Singing’: Film, Television and the Representation of the Welsh Working Class’ provides Read More …
Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Tuesday 19th March 2024. 6 – 8 pm, Senate House, London, Room 102, First Floor The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in radical film and television from the 1980s, much of Read More …
Proposals are invited for a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television on the subject of television and cinema transmission. Transmission is one of the key technologies underpinning television and cinema. It is the liminal, ethereal, and often invisible Read More …
Seminar: Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent University) , ‘An elusive object: mapping and making sense of the French and Francophone-Belgian cinema of precarity’: Moore Auditorium, Royal Holloway, University of London, 17.00 – 19.00 This is the first of a series of Read More …
The Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production, Royal Holloway, University of London is pleased to announce a TECHNE Collaborative Doctoral Award funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This fully-funded studentship will focus on British television 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 …
A special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television ((Vol 20 No3) on film, television and Northern Ireland, co-edited by John Hill and Julian Petley, has just been published. Along with a number of articles on film and 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 …