John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Speaking to Each Other at Last? The Ghost of TV Past, Present and To Come…

January 13, 2006 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 3 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia
A look backwards at the role of television scholarship reveals some insights about where we can go from here, as well as the roads not travelled.

Laughs and Legends, or the Furniture that Glows?: Television as History

November 4, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 10 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland College of Technology
How do we write television as history?

To Have and Have not (You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone)

September 9, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 36 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
The afterlife of Dead Like Me on Australian cable television and the pleasures and perturbances of watching an already-in-the-grave series.

Flowers Powers: Mars or Venus?

June 24, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 6 comments

by: John Hartley/ Queensland University of Technology
Is media studies in need of planetary realignment? Or, how learning to appreciate Benny Hill might solve the Fiske/McChesney divide.

Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?

April 15, 2005 John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology, Australia 8 comments

by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
Is ‘disappointment’ and ‘the teaching of disgust’ the ‘core of our discipline’? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn’t reality TV do it better than we do?