The history of television culture and production
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 …
From January to March 2025, PhD research student, Ben Stoll, supervised by John Hill and Manishita Dass, visited the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas following the award of an AHRC Fellowship. While there, he researched material on Black British Read More …
PhD researcher Jess Boyall has co-curated an exhibition, series of screenings and live performance programme at Ormside Projects, 24th – 28th November 2024. Drawing on the London Community Video Archive’s extensive collection, the programme showcases films, live performances, and sonic Read More …
BBC Northern Ireland began broadcasting over the radiowaves in 1924 and to coincide with this anniversary the Belfast Film Festival put together a special archive television event around the first programme to be made locally, Ulster Mirror. Launched in 1954, 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 …
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 …