The history of television culture and production
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 UK’s largest immersive storytelling project StoryTrails is beginning its tour of the UK in 15 locations, starting in Omagh on 1-2 July 2022. Drawing on television archival material from the BBC, the BFI and regional collections, the project involves Read More …
CALL FOR PAPERS CHANNEL 4 THEN AND NOW 23-24th September 2022 Channel 4’s first programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1982, 40 years ago. Royal Holloway University of London’s School of Performance and Digital Arts, and Centre for the History Read More …
Fifty of the next generation of UK creative talent have been recruited by StoryFutures Academy to help develop and deliver StoryTrails, a unique immersive storytelling experience for audiences in 15 town and cities across the UK as part of UNBOXED, Read More …
J P Kelly has recently published an important article in Television and New Media entitled: ”This Title Is No Longer Available”: Preserving Television in the Streaming Age (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476420928480). This article examines several recent changes in the technological composition and market Read More …
In 2015 I edited a book called Adventures in the Lives of Others, a collection of gripping and intimate accounts of problem-solving and decision-making at the cutting edge of documentaries and factual television. An extraordinary line-up of contributors took part, Read More …