The history of television culture and production
Nick Hall has recently co-authored an article with Jeannine Baker of Macquarie University entitled ‘Rigged against them: Women camera operators at the BBC during the 1970s and 1980s’ . Published in Women’s History Review (31: 4), the article draws upon 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 …
Along with colleagues Julie Münter Lassen and Jannick Kirk Sørensen from the Universities of Aarhus and Aalborg, J P Kelly presented on their research on video-on-demand [VOD] services, and the need for more data-driven approaches to their study and understanding, Read More …
The Department of Media Arts is happy to announce excellent results in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The department’s research outputs, which included books, journals and television productions linked to the work of the Centre, were ranked 2nd for Read More …
A Special Issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television (Vol 19:2) on ‘Play for Today at 50’, edited by John Hill, has been published online. In addition to Hill’s contributions this volume includes a range of articles by Read More …
Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Nick Hall and John Ellis, and containing articles by ADAPT project researchers John Ellis, Nick Hall and Amanda Murphy, is now available as an open Read More …
As part of the ADAPT project into the history of the uses of television technology, both Tim Heath and Rowan Aust have now successfully completed their PhDs on the history of British television production practices. Tim’s research focused on the Read More …
The ADAPT Social Media Project team has now published their final report: ‘Adapting to Social Media: Commerce, Creativity and Competition in UK Television Production’ by James Bennett and Niki Strange (May 2018). The report is free to download here. The Read More …
A special issue, on Scottish television drama, of Visual Culture in Britain (Volume 18, Issue 3) inspired by ‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project and drawing on papers delivered at the ‘Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Read More …
A special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Volume 37, Number 1, 2017) edited by Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart, has now appeared. The articles contained in this issue derive from our conference, ‘Television Read More …