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Fighting for Better Representation of Women in and on RTÉ: Women's Work in Promoting Gender Equality at Ireland's National Broadcaster, 1979-1981
No full textThis article examines the role that women’s activism and advocacy played in early Irish television and the opportunities for and representation of women in national broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). It focuses on two groups: RTÉ’s own Working Group on Women in Broadcasting, which reported in 1981, and the Women in Broadcasting Study Group of 1980, headed by Senator Gemma Hussey. Both investigated practices of employment of women and the roles that they undertook as well as the role of women in RTÉ programs and in television advertising on RTÉ. The article argues that, although there were tensions between the two groups and each group had different interests, different methodological approaches in their reports and were received in the public and by RTÉ very differently, they effectively worked together to compel RTÉ to implement their recommendations and take the issue of gender equality more seriously on a long-term basis
'These Are Not New Bigots' - Queer TV, Erinnerungskultur and the Potential of Unproduction Studies
No full textThe article discusses queer television using US and West-German prime-time soaps Dallas, Dynasty, Lindenstraße and drama series thirtysomething, outlining how they are in dialogue with each other through an entangled Cold War history. It places special focus on the depiction of gay and bisexual men during the HIV/AIDS crisis, as this chapter of queer history remains both decisive for public opinion on queer issues across borders, and its history is often obscured in collective memory. While the case studies consider actually produced/‘made’ work, they open up ways to engage with how systemic discrimination both on the level of production companies and audiences disrupt queer content, thus placing this in a framework of ‘unproduction studies’
Gone but Not to Be Forgotten: 1980s and 1990s Media Histories
No full textIntroduction to the special issue on Media histories of the 1980s and 1990s
Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory (2022) and Practice (2023)
No full textBook review of: Andreas Fickers, Annie van den Oever, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022) and Tim van der Heijden, Aleksander Kolkowski, Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023)
TrendMonitor Audiovisuele Collecties in Nederland 2022
Full text linkDeze vierde TrendMonitor Audiovisuele Collecties in Nederland geeft een overzicht van de stand van zaken wat betreft audiovisueel materiaal bij collectionerende instellingen in Nederland. Beeld & Geluid levert als landelijk knooppunt voor de audiovisuele en mediasector binnen het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed een actief bijdrage aan de Nationale Digitale Strategie, in het bijzonder rondom de duurzaamheid en toegankelijkheid van media en audiovisueel erfgoed. De uitkomsten van dit onderzoek zijn richtinggevend voor zowel de activiteiten van Beeld & Geluid als die van AVA_Net, het netwerk van audiovisuele collectiehouders in Nederland. Ook dienen ze als staalkaart en graadmeter voor de gezondheid en beschikbaarheid van de geluiden en bewegende beelden die ons nationale geheugen vormen
Make Film History: Opening Up the Archives to Emerging Filmmakers
No full textThis case study traces the evolution of the Make Film History project, an award-winning archival resource which gives emerging filmmakers and educators in the UK and Ireland access to 270 films for creative reuse on course-related projects. It explores the barriers to the creative reuse of audiovisual archive material in education; and how the project overcame these with the support of our project partners at the participating archives to create a new, sustainable model for creative reuse in a range of educational settings and in partnership with film festivals
Kunstzinnig vermaak in Amsterdam. Het Panoramagebouw in de Plantage 1880-1935
No full textBook review of: Sylvia Alting van Geusau and Ester Wouthuysen, Kunstzinnig vermaak in Amsterdam. Het Panoramagebouw in de Plantage 1880-1935 (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Virtùmedia together with Genootschap Amstelodamum, 2021), 239 pp., ISBN 9789491141270
From 'Mobile' to 'Really Mobile': Mobile phones in Scandinavian Advertisements from the 1980s
No full textMobile phones represent a new era in telecommunications beginning in the 1980s with the development of first-generation mobile phone networks. This article addresses the early history of the mobile phone from a cultural and aesthetic perspective with focus on representations of mobile phones in advertising. The aim is to explore whether images of early mobile phones as trendy and stylish artefacts suggested by examples in a previous study by the author represent a more common aesthetic trend related to advertising and consumer culture in the 1980s. The study is based on a sample of Scandinavian advertisements from 1980 to 1989
Keeping Up With Atari: Neoliberal Expectations in Early Electronics Advertising
No full textDuring the early 1980s, ad campaigns framed purchasing and using emerging consumer electronics as tools for accessing, what Lauren Berlant called, ‘the good life.’ Computers, video games, VCRs, and cassette players might help consumers cultivate a neoliberal, upwardly mobile, and implicitly white, lifestyle. This paper explores early personal computer and home console video game advertisements as a cultural discourse that framed emerging technology through normative gendered, raced, and classed everyday lifestyles in an American context. The central case study is the early 1980s televisual ad campaign for the Atari 2600 system, featuring the “Have You Played Atari Today?” jingle. The campaign was widely viewed and is representative of contemporaneous marketing approaches. The ad’s allusion to time management both reinforced broader neoliberal paradigms and enacted a gendered slippage between labour and leisure. This paper draws from feminist critical theory approaches and uses textual analysis to understand the ways that electronic advertisements appealed to late capitalist social attitudes
The Educational Dispositif: a Smaller Abstraction
No full textIntroduction to the special issue on The Educational Dispositif