Disappearing Bodies, Disappearing Objects: What Years and Years Can Teach Us About Design by Saul Pandelakis

“…British television has recently acquired a reputation for producing challenging dystopian visions of the future. …”
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Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty? by Amandine Ducray

“…Adopting a diachronical approach, the present article will observe the transformations in the comical series of British television in their approach to the ethnic question, in the large sense of the term, in order to see how, between shifts, hybridization, and oscillation, they have been able to reflect a long-standing, complex, and still largely relevant questioning on racial relations.…”
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Representations of Power Shifts Between Great Britain and India in The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984) by Florence Cabaret

“…However, since The Jewel in the Crown is also described as one of the most critical representations of the presence of Great Britain in India in the 1940s, I will also focus on the ways the serial refers to Great Britain as a privileged vantage point but also as a locus of ambivalent attitudes, particularly so as it is seen by characters living in India but appearing on television screens at a moment when British television was trying to represent the British colonial past through various kinds of programs (documentaries, fiction, serials). …”
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Between Poetics and Production. A Russian Trace in Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (Soyuzmultfilm / Christmas Films / S4C / BBC Wales) by Polina Rybina

“…Edwards, the series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992-94) could easily be viewed as a purely British television adaptation of British classics. However, this is a joint project, in which Russian studios Soyuzmultfilm and Christmas Films were responsible for animating the shows. …”
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Qualitative exploration of the effect of a television soap opera storyline on women with experience of postpartum psychosis by Lewis Roberts, Giles Berrisford, Jessica Heron, Lisa Jones, Ian Jones, Clare Dolman, Deirdre A. Lane

“… Background Postpartum psychosis has recently been the focus of an in-depth storyline on a British television soap opera watched by millions of viewers. …”
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Reflecting the Changing Face of American Society: How 1970’s Sitcoms and Spin-Offs Helped Redefine American Identity by Dennis Tredy

“…As this paper will demonstrate, situations used in these situation comedies were often adaptations of lesser known British television programs (as is the case with Norman Lear’s long-running series All in the Family and Sanford and Son), or of landmark films and plays pointing to new social norms (as with Robert Gutchell’s Alice or James Komack’s The Courtship of Eddie’s Father). …”
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Television and memory: history programming and contemporary identities by Erin Bell

“…Although, as Bill Nichols (156) asserted in the early 1990s, subjectivity and identification are less frequently explored in documentaries than in fiction, I will also consider the extent to which some recent factual programmes on British television have succeeded in doing so, and also viewers’ responses to them. …”
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Television Dramas as Memory Screens by Teresa Forde

“…Both dramas share a number of concerns yet each has a very different context within British television. The relationship between viewers’ adopting memories from the dramas and incorporating these into their own sets of memories, including my own memories of the dramas is considered. …”
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Leaders in the living room

“…This study explores the first-ever British televised prime ministerial debates with a view to understanding how they were received by the public; how they were depicted in the press and on television; and how far they registered online. …”