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Spoiler warning for the season six finale of The Walking Dead. We talk point-of-view shots and the visual language of empathy.
Who would you rather have as president: Frank Underwood or Donald Trump?
‘I suppose that, as I’m 50, Molly is absolutely my demographic: I was nine when Countdown began and 23 when it ended, and I was a devotee for most of that time – a devotee who was often disgusted …’
Reading this with your eyes half closed for fear of plot spoilers? There’s something wrong with you.
Is there now so much information being shown on football broadcast screens that it’s time for another announcerless game?
New technology could allow you to “feel” a TV show by transmitting touch feedback through the air.
Netflix’s recent ban on proxies, unblockers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is unlikely to provide a long-term cure to content providers’ chronic headaches.
In the post-9/11, post-Iraq television landscape we’re familiar with government and terrorist conspiracy shows. How will aliens hold up?
The rise and fall of video and music formats.
You might be forgiven for wondering if there’s any connection between ITV’s Jekyll and Hyde and Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella other than the title.
Why so many are utterly compelled by shows about extremely mundane, even retro exercises such as baking, sewing and throwing pottery.
Footage of wars, bombings and shootings can traumatise children. Here’s how parents can help them cope with distressing content.
The screen is as close as many people get to experiencing prison. But do these dramas offer a realistic insight into life behind bars?
Federal arts minister Mitch Fifield said every job in the film and television industry supported 3.57 jobs in other industries. We should be wary of such promises.
The battle for public opinion over whether Edward Snowden was right might just be won out, not in the press or the US Congress, but in fiction.
In a media ecology defined through “interactive” behaviour – “web 2.0,” the blogging platforms now favoured by news and cultural criticism sites – a new figure has emerged from the digital abyss: the serial commenter.
Mass media is on its way out, and the pursuit and influence of niche audiences has fundamentally reshaped everything from the music industry to publishing. Now it’s reshaping television.
Before Buffy The Vampire Slayer intrigued academics, shows like I Love Lucy dominated the cultural conversation. This is worth remembering, because Mad Men and The Wire didn’t emerge from nowhere.
Both Netflix’s Narcos and the documentary Cartel Land fall into the trap of sensationalising violence and in doing so horribly simplify the story.
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Associate Professor of Screen Media, Victoria University
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