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British History

Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph: Part Two

posted by Teri Williams September 24, 20207 min read101 Views

By Julian Petley and Andrew Roberts Catch up with Part One of Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph For…

Cultural Studies

Detective storyworlds: why do you keep watching?

posted by Teri Williams March 25, 20206 min read411 Views

By Antoine Dechêne A few months ago, my wife and I were having one of our numerous chats about the…

Diversity in British Cinema
Cultural Studies

Diversity in British Film and Television

posted by Teri Williams January 27, 20203 min read506 Views

The controversy over ‘all-white’ 2020 BAFTAs once again shows the importance of understanding that issues of diversity are at the…

British History

Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey

posted by Teri Williams February 8, 20195 min read1196 Views

Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…

Atlantic Literature

6 Books for TV Lovers

posted by Carla Hepburn December 14, 20176 min read2562 Views

By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming…

Film and TV

American television and off-screen registers: a corpus-based comparison

posted by Teri Williams August 17, 20174 min read1745 Views

In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen…

Cultural Studies

Five Unmissable Performances from Penny Dreadful

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals March 14, 20166 min read2968 Views

By Benjamin Poore For the uninitiated, Penny Dreadful is a genre-busting neo-Victorian fantasy horror show, set in the 1890s, in…

Cultural Studies

John Cura: Pioneer of the Television Archive

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals February 17, 20165 min read2012 Views

By Richard Wallace The work of John Cura is a fascinating side-note in the history of British television. Between 1947…

Publishing

2015 round-up: Most read in Edinburgh Journals

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals January 12, 20162 min read2202 Views

2015 was a great year for Edinburgh University Press Journals. We published over 750 articles across 39 journals, several of…

Cultural Studies

‘Don’t pump up the emotion’: The creation and authorship of a sound world in The Wire

posted by Ruth at EUP Journals March 17, 20152 min read1674 Views

The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around…

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