Vicky Ball
@yellowmousey
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Senior Lecturer Cinema and TV Histories. Research interests: feminist TV studies, TV drama and women's work in TV production. Views my own.
De Montfort University
Joined May 2016
Hurrah!! Submit an abstract to this conference. It’s the best!!
The CFP for our next conference is live! Doing Women's Film and Television History VII - Entangled Media: Past and Present CFP deadline 6 December 2024. Conference held at University of Lincoln, 18-20 June 2025. https://t.co/sA1u92hGs2
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My first book "Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy" is now available for pre-order on the @EdinburghUP website & is 30% off with the code NEW30. Please recommend it to your library/librarian! 🥰
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My article on #DriveAwayDolls and lesbians in film for @ConversationUK:
theconversation.com
Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s odd-couple road movie caper shows just how far lesbian film has come in the last century.
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We have another TV blog, this time from Christa Van Raalte, on how we should remember the work of production managers following the announcement of the BAFTA TV Awards nominees. Read it - and a summary of their report 'Where have all the PMs gone?' - here:
wfthn.com
by Christa van Raalte This week, the nominations for the British Academy Television Awards will be announced. There will be nominations for a range of TV craft roles, including directors, cinematog…
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📣 One week left! 📣
CFP: 'Beyond the messy millennial woman: televising perfection, imperfection and resilience'. This special issue, edited by @_claireperkins and me, invites submissions that consider how imperfect women on TV function in different social, national and cultural contexts. Pls share!
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🚨 New TV blog post about the amazing collection on women's television history at DMU! 🚨
We have a new TV blog post from Justin Smith and Katharine Short on De Montfort University's Special Collections @DMUSpecialColls, which contains various riches documenting the history of women working in television. Check it out here! --->
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We have a new TV blog post from Justin Smith and Katharine Short on De Montfort University's Special Collections @DMUSpecialColls, which contains various riches documenting the history of women working in television. Check it out here! --->
wfthn.com
by Justin Smith and Katharine Short Out of the Attic Recent revisionist histories have recovered neglected and marginalised accounts of women’s roles in the UK’s film and television ind…
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We've got space for new TV blogs between April & July - please consider submitting one @WFTHN! There are loads of cool conferences (@baftss @SCMStudies @ConsolePassions) coming up, too, if you fancy writing a report on one 📺💘
Some good news: I'll be the editor of a new TV Blog Series for @WFTHN, working with @CSTonlinetv. We're after blogs between 800-1200 words on women & TV (history). If you're interested in contributing, DM/email me! You can find my editor's intro here:
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Learn about girls in the workhouse, c.1880-1920, and the social concerns this prompted. #WomensHistoryMonth
https://t.co/LyFdrSXZaZ
womenshistorynetwork.org
In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute…
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"Girls are Powerful" A fantastic poster from See Red Women's Workshop, creators of feminist posters from 1974 to 1990. More online: https://t.co/evz2b036jq
#WomensHistoryMonth
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CFP: 'Beyond the messy millennial woman: televising perfection, imperfection and resilience'. This special issue, edited by @_claireperkins and me, invites submissions that consider how imperfect women on TV function in different social, national and cultural contexts. Pls share!
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Extraordinary postdoc opportunity to work with Professor Helen Wood @helentellywood on the extraordinary ‘ReCARE TV: Reality Television, working practices and duties of care’ project 👇🏽 0542-23 Postdoctoral Researcher - Jobs at Aston
jobs.aston.ac.uk
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Very sad to announce my friend the wonderful TV Director Yvonne Littlewood passed away on Friday at the age of 96. Her cousin Peter couldn't contact her by phone on Saturday so arrived at 2am this morning to find her resting peacefully on her sofa.
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BREAKING: Tina Turner, the unstoppable musical force with hits like 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' has died at age 83, her manager says. https://t.co/QMcMdS7DK6
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Any location suggestions to do a writing retreat? Preferably within a couple of hours drive of Loughborough?
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We need to talk about online sexual harassment of young people: Expert https://t.co/fIM6lc5JSV
#LdnOnt
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"The moment of crowning has arrived." Having had two kids, I recommend Charles mashes the gas & air and tries to relax his fanny.
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Remembering electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire, born on this day in 1937 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England. Here she is demonstrating her compositional techniques using tape loops at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in London in 1965.
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