Themed Playlist: The New Politics of Food Television
Michelle Phillipov, The University of Adelaide After dominating broadcast and cable television schedules for much of the 2000s, food TV has found a range of new lives in non-linear, digital …
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Themed Playlist: Blackstar Theory- Drama, Dream, and David Bowie
Leah Kardos (Kingston University) shares a playlist that illuminates the intertextuality of David Bowie’s work and informs his last three projects, The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015), and the album Blackstar (2016).
Themed Playlist: Ukrainian Films
Inspired by community interest, the FLEFF team decided to develop a film list that would include both historical and contemporary films from Ukraine, a country with a long history of cinema. This is a selection of ten, all available through streaming services.
Themed Playlist: Queer Memory on Screen
From Anamarija Horvat (University of Nottingham), a playlist of films and television programmes that have contributed to the formation of queer memory, shaping how viewers imagine queer history and the past …
Themed Playlist: The Female Detective on TV
To coincide with the publication of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture’s issue on the Female Detective on TV, this collaboratively-created playlist features several of the collection’s contributors offering their recommendations of TV shows featuring female detectives. Enjoy this list of things to watch and read.
Themed Playlist: Low Stakes TV; Cleaning Drains, Washing Cars and Long Walks
Mike Wyeld (University of Hertfordshire) suggests a list of digital works rethinking how we use online video. In a time filled with public and private trauma and slow violence we …
Themed Playlist: A Chthululist
William Brown and David H. Fleming present A Chthululist As the proverb goes: try saying that with false teeth! Shamelessly to tie in with the release of …
Themed Playlist: Mediating Motherhood
From Tanya Horeck (Anglia Ruskin University ) a reflection on motherhood and mediating functions that risk limiting our visions of kinship, especially under lockdown.
Themed Playlist: Better Worlds
Tanya Horeck’s playlist, ‘Better Worlds’ contains serialised TV shows whose utopic visions are deceptively political as they offer ways of imagining and feeling possibilities and alternatives.
Themed Playlist: The Bottle Episode
At a time when we’re pretty much living our own ‘Bottle Episode’, Zoe Shacklock offers a list of some of the most notable examples of this particular genre.