Introduction In this post, we reflect on our TV Dictionary entries on The Bridge/Bron/Broen (2011-18), which were released at around the same time and made completely independently of each other.
This is a taster of a chapter I have just published about unusual and expressive uses of sound in TV.[1] The chapter is in one of the Moments in Television series books that I blogged about recently, and focuses on an episode of the science fiction series The Twilight Zone : ‘The Invaders’ (1961). The episode has no dialogue, though it has some narration spoken to camera and some music, and the absence of speech made me think about what
Two years ago, I wrote a provocation for CST about the problems that the continued tendency to priorities research on a particular kind of television creates for the academy. I argued that all we do is underpin existing hierarchies of gender and race in the academy and that a solution could be that we look at other television.
My TV Dictionary entry, on the show American Bandstand (ABC, 1952-1989) was born of a struggle I experience as a scholar and videographer in being able to grasp, study and say something about daily television programs. Televisual fiction genres are usually studied as a single text, comprised of several or many episodes.
Event Website https://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/research/projects/global-natives/news/young-people-entertainment-and-cross-media-storyte.html This pre-conference is timed to coincide with the start of the ECREA Conference, taking place from 19-22 October 2022 in Aarhus. Keynote Sophie H. Bishop: ‘Young People and Influencer culture in the UK’
Application for roundtable sessions at The BBC at 100 symposium, 14-15 Sept 2022 The BBC at 100 symposium will take place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online on 14-15 Sept 2022.
Brian’s music taps into the same source that gospel music taps into. That deep, fundamental sadness or darkness that we all carry. It’s like it finds you there and it takes you up out of it. That was just innately in the music. The harmonies, the sound, offered a way out and a transcendence. — Jim James, lead vocalist and guitarist for My Morning Jacket
As a film, television and digital media scholar, videographic criticism is a format that I was aware of but had not yet put into practice. My interest in this medium led me to Ariel Avissar’s “TV Dictionary” which for me became a form of practical access into this world of videographic criticism. Participants familiar and new to this medium create content through a specific rubric, or algorithmic guidance: a tv show;
Networking Knowledge, the journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies (MeCCSA) Postgraduate Network, invites contributions from postgraduate students and early career researchers for publication in an upcoming issue focused on television, video-on-demand, and binge watching. Academic articles, creative work, interviews, and media reviews from any field of media, communication, and cultural studies are welcome.
The “TV Dictionary” is a collaborative collection of videos premised on a simple prompt: each video attempts to capture the essence of a television series using a single word, by juxtaposing the dictionary definition(s) of that word with a clip or several clips from the series. It is currently comprised of 48 videos by 25 makers, and has been warmly embraced by the academic videographic community, receiving numerous mentions on Sight &