By Julian Petley and Andrew Roberts Catch up with Part One of Culture Wars, Talking Pictures and the Telegraph For…
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By Antoine Dechêne A few months ago, my wife and I were having one of our numerous chats about the…
The controversy over ‘all-white’ 2020 BAFTAs once again shows the importance of understanding that issues of diversity are at the…
Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…
By Jennifer J. Smith It is a truth universally acknowledged that there is so much great television. From limited streaming…
In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen…
By Benjamin Poore For the uninitiated, Penny Dreadful is a genre-busting neo-Victorian fantasy horror show, set in the 1890s, in…
By Richard Wallace The work of John Cura is a fascinating side-note in the history of British television. Between 1947…
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
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around…