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Soderbergh Goes Legit

By Mark Gallagher, Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham New York City recently hosted the 12th edition of its homegrown Tribeca Film Festival.  Surely this would be a good time to visit the city and catch the newest offering from Steven Soderbergh (whose work and career I explore in my recent monograph, …

Bollywood, Hollywood — Tollywood?

By Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin About the author: Michele Hilmes is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies in the Department of Communications Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Prof. Hilmes is a major scholar of US television and radio broadcasting, best known for her pioneering work Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United …

The Mutual Benefits of Engaging with Industry

By Catherine Johnson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham [Note: This post originally appeared last year at the Critical Studies in Television blog and is now being reposted here at Screen Focus with updated links and other minor revisions.] To what extent should academics be engaging with industry, and how? What …

Tom Walsh’s Letter From Cuba

About the author: Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director Thomas Walsh served as President of the Art Directors Guild (ADG) from 2003 to 2013.  He is a founding co-chair of the Art Directors Guild Archives and Research Library as well as its Production Apprenticeship Program and its Art Directors Film Society. Tom is also …

‘S*** This, I’m getting a PS4’: The Xbox One Launch and the Battle for Digital Agency’ by Elizabeth Evans

2013 is turning into a heady year for the gaming industry. Faced with the rapid development of online technology, and the way in which online modes of engagement have permeated almost every aspect of media culture, gaming had been proving itself to be rather resilient. Whilst the television and film industries have had to respond …

Breaching boundaries

Welcome to the blog of ISIR, the Institute for Screen Industries Research. ISIR was created to foster collaborations between academia and film, television and screen industries. Since this is our first blog, it might be helpful to outline the philosophy behind ISIR and its aims. In particular, two areas are important in this sense, what …