Book Review: Contemporary British Television Drama

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Radical Television Drama Introduction

The origins of this issue reside in a season of television dramas, entitled ‘United Kingdom!: Radical Television Drama Before and During Thatcher’, that ran at BFI Southbank from November to December 2009. The season was conceived by members of staff (Susanna Capon, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and Rob Turnock) in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and was jointl...

Flaws bug television gene drama

MEDIAWATCH: Rejection of scientific advice by the writers of a BBC thriller based on the consequences of genetic modification of wheat with an antibiotic-resistance gene renders the plot absurd, writes Bernard Dixon.

Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama

Book Review: Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology