I recently came across Sudeep Dasgupta’s article ‘Policing the people: Television studies and the problem of “quality”’ and liked it a great deal. Thoughtfully-argued and well-theorised, the piece worries about a critical enterprise that would presume to defend ‘the people’ from an elitist discourse on ‘quality’ television. I agree with Dasgupta insofar as it seems […]
The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) has posted their 2014 conference program online. The BAFTSS 2014 conference will take place from 24-26 April 2014 at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies in London. NECSUS editorial board member Dorota Ostrowska will introduce the conference as the representative of the hosting institution Birkbeck […]
by Hanna B. Hölling Introduction Standing amidst the lively garden of the campus of the University of California, San Diego, I am looking at the many television sets, Buddhas, and elements of various electronic devices scattered around. As the first outdoor ensemble of the Korean video artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the installation Something Pacific […]
by Lorenz Engell This article is motivated by the experience of the traditional television user. The experience of television is (at least in one of its dominant forms), as everyone can assert, and as Raymond Williams marvelously described it, one of a medium state between day and night, sea and land, closeness and distance, consciousness […]
Catherine Johnson’s book Branding Television (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2012) contributes to television studies by describing, explaining, and illustrating why and how television industries have turned to branding as a response to changes in technology. The book examines the television industries in the United States and the United Kingdom suggesting that, while the evolution […]
by Alexander Dhoest and Nele Simons For more than a decade now the very status of television as a medium has been one of the predominant themes in television studies. The tone is mixed – both jubilant, welcoming all the exciting innovations which make television so much more than it was before, and fearful, for […]
‘Lively, radiant, lush…’ This is how colour authority Pantone Inc. describes emerald green (Pantone code 17-5641), the colour of the year for 2013. Welcome to NECSUS #3_Spring 2013 with a special section on ‘Green’. While springtime is normally an ideal season to evoke the greening of nature, our aim in this special section is to […]
The website promoting the international documentary studies conference Visible Evidence XX is now online with information about this year’s event. The 2013 gathering of Visible Evidence, celebrating its 20th anniversary, will convene 15-18 August in Stockholm where it will be hosted by the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm University, and organised in collaboration with The […]
BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) is hosting its 1st Annual Conference from 19-21 April 2013 at University of Lincoln. The conference theme is “Critics & Criticism: Writing on Audiovisual Media” and the call for papers is currently open until 17 December 2012. A Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to NECSUS […]
In recent research on academic knowledge production there are intimations that a certain fuzziness of the investigated object, even a somewhat vague set of questions, are not the worst starting points for scholarship. These points often lead to exciting insights. This might explain why, for some time now, various academic engagements with television have provoked […]
by James Zborowski As part of her ‘attempt to establish the specificity of contemporary [lifestyle] programmes’[1] on British television, Charlotte Brunsdon identifies ‘a changing grammar of the close-up’[2] as an important element of what she argues is a tendency for these programmes to offer melodrama rather than realism.[3] Brunsdon argues that in the preceding ‘hobby’ […]
In the second part of the much celebrated recent novel 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, 2004), a Chilean philosopher with an Italian surname teaching in a Northern Mexico university unexpectedly finds a book in his library: Testamento geométrico, a treatise on geometry written by a poet named Rafael Dieste. Amalfitano (the name of the philosopher) cannot recall […]
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is organising a panel called ‘Greening the Screen’ on sustainable futures for film, tv, and games. The panel takes place on 12 November 2012 and will be hosted by Alistair McGowan, with introductions from Ben Roberts (BFI, Director of the Film Fund) and Kevin Price (BAFTA, COO). […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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