Tv & samhälle

An entertaining look at the changing face of the Eurovision Song Contest and the political and cultural influences behind its kitsch and glitzy facade.

In late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly …

Her dream escape is about to become a nightmare… Kimberley King has spent the last five years trying to outrun the reason she left the police force. Her life is a mess and she’s …

With its twisty serialized plots, compelling antiheroes, and stylish production, Breaking Bad has become a signature series for a new golden age of television, in which some …

Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic ââ?¬â?? the state of British food.

To help students think critically about international relations and politics, Stephen Benedict Dyson examines the fictional but deeply political realities of three television …

Als "Sklave der Erkenntnis" und "Für einen Sack voll DeMark" schreibt Willemsen seit mehr als zehn Jahren Glossen und Kolumnen. Seine großen Themen "Fernsehen im Tierversuch" und …

How the internet transformed television Before HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of …

Already in the late nineteenth century, electricians, physicists, and telegraph technicians dreamed of inventing televisual communication apparatuses that would “see” by …

In Black Power TV, Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows, New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant …