The history of television culture and production
Friday 19th September, 14.30 – 16.00 Room 104, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU This event will ask how 1980s Black British Workshop films are being re-shown today—in galleries, cinemas, and online—and what political and cultural work these screenings can do Read More …
Helen Littleboy’s new two-part documentary series Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army launched on BBC Two on 27th July, subsequently becoming available on BBC iPlayer. Helen, who lectures at Royal Holloway and is a TV Centre associate, is the Read More …
Two PhD researchers associated with the Centre, and supervised by TV Centre director Professor John Hill, have joined the AHRC-funded research project ‘Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible’ led by Professor Helen Hanson at the University of Exeter. Read More …
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 …
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 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 …