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Continue reading →: Sound Bridges, Sound Walls – call for papers
During a break of the 2009 IAMHIST conference in Aberystwyth, Wales, I sat down to coffee with my colleague Thunnis van Oort and it soon came up that he sat on the board of the Dutch/Flemish Vereniging Geschiedenis Beeld en Geluid (Association for the History of Sound and Vision) and…
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Continue reading →: Driving Curiosity at EU Screen, Rome
It is now over a month ago, but I want to stop and note a fantastic conference, namely the First EU screen conference on content selection and contextualization. Not only was it at Cinecitta in the amazing city of Rome (they also fed us the most opulent lunches I ever hope…
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Continue reading →: Stuck in
So events major and minor have been coming thick and fast of late. I will try to catch up in a series of posts over the next few days. The first of these is to say I am now ensconced for the academic year at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in…
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Continue reading →: Hello Lenin, June 7
As part of the upcoming year-end meeting of the TViT group , my new film will be screened as part of an illustrious programme. Hello Lenin! (UK/Netherlands 2010) 12 min, b/w silent w/ English intitles What is the power of one man to change the world? In the…
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Continue reading →: Rocking the Boat
The Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Centre for Contemporary Histroy, ZZF) in Potsdam has a very interesting internet portal for documents, discussions and current research on contemporary history. One feature of this is discussions of contemporary history as it appears in popular media. Late last year I had the pleasure of writing a review of Richard…
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Continue reading →: Chocolate, Not just for Christmas Dec 19
The holidays are upon us, and with them come rampant consumerism, an annual environmental disaster, not to mention guilt and annoyance, but also public expressions of love, giving and social responsibility. The question is: how can we reduce the negative aspects and make the positive ones sustainable? My friends Damian…
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Continue reading →: Phil Archer
And here is the last episode. Of course it is poignant that Phil Archer is mentioning traditions, and the year of his birth…
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Continue reading →: and something happy…
Happy 40th Birthday, Sesame Street! How many other global TV brands can America actually be proud of? Thanks for everything.
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Continue reading →: Starting with sad news is probably not a good idea, but…
…I am still thinking about the death of Norman Painting, known to literally millions of people as Phil Archer, a character he played on BBC radio week in, week out for nearly 60 years: the longest character stint anywhere in the world. There are people listening now who heard him go from…
Alec
I’m a media historian, with special interests in broadcasting, transnational processes and cultures, archives, women’s history and a few other things. I am Assistant Professor for Media and Culture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I am also a migrant, a dad, a Gen-Xer, and a widower. Sometimes I write about those things, too.
Alec Badenoch 