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Dr James Zborowski's Outputs (19)

Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry (2025)
Journal Article
Brereton, J., Jones, B., Reeve, C., Zborowski, J., & Bramwell-Dicks, A. (in press). Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry. Popular Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2025.2486773

Screen industry employers report that they are unable to recruit graduates with the right skills for entry-level roles in film and television, citing a lack of business awareness and various “soft skills” as barriers to employment. Traditionally, suc... Read More about Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry.

Play Your Way Into Production: Game-based Skills Development for the Screen Industries (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brereton, J., Jones, B., Reeve, C., Zborowski, J., & Bramwell-Dicks, A. (2024, October). Play Your Way Into Production: Game-based Skills Development for the Screen Industries. Presented at Proceedings of the European Conference on Games-based Learning, Aarhus University, Denmark

Screen industry employers report they are unable to recruit graduates with the right skills for entry level roles in film and television (e.g. runners or production assistants), citing a lack of business awareness and various ‘soft skills’ as barrier... Read More about Play Your Way Into Production: Game-based Skills Development for the Screen Industries.

Careers guidance and support for media students (2024)
Report
Zborowski, J., Mayne, L., & Macrae, S. (2024). Careers guidance and support for media students. Zenodo: Screen Industries Growth Network

Media students lack detailed and realistic knowledge about what jobs are available in the UK creative industries, how to find them, and about how career progression works beyond entry-level roles. Careers advisors report that they lack good and up-t... Read More about Careers guidance and support for media students.

Bridging the expectation gap? Evaluating the work-readiness of pre-university media students in Yorkshire and the Humber (2024)
Report
Zborowski, J., Mayne, L., & Macrae, S. (2024). Bridging the expectation gap? Evaluating the work-readiness of pre-university media students in Yorkshire and the Humber. Screen Industries Growth Network (SIGN)/Research England

Opening paragraph, Executive Summary:
It is difficult for providers of pre-university media qualifications (such as BTECs, A-levels, Cambridge Technicals, and the UAL award) to meet the demand for work experience in the screen industries among their... Read More about Bridging the expectation gap? Evaluating the work-readiness of pre-university media students in Yorkshire and the Humber.

Surveillance, State Violence and Resistance: A History of “Dangerous Incidents” between Police Officers and Black Individuals in the United States (2024)
Thesis
Blance, K. Surveillance, State Violence and Resistance: A History of “Dangerous Incidents” between Police Officers and Black Individuals in the United States. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4587924

[From the introduction]:
This thesis will seek to explore racialised surveillance and Black resistance to this surveillance in both historical and contemporary forms in the United States. At its core, this research will argue that racialised surveil... Read More about Surveillance, State Violence and Resistance: A History of “Dangerous Incidents” between Police Officers and Black Individuals in the United States.

Notes towards a formal and social poetics of television drama (2022)
Journal Article
Zborowski, J. (2022). Notes towards a formal and social poetics of television drama. Journal of Popular Television, 10(2), 213-224. https://doi.org/10.1386/jptv_00080_1

This article seeks to build a bridge between approaches to television drama that explore form and style, and those that explore realism and representation. It proposes questions which can be applied to any television drama, and reveal meaningful dist... Read More about Notes towards a formal and social poetics of television drama.

Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television (2020)
Thesis
Khorikian, A. L. (2020). Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922443

Familial teams were a pronounced and novel trend in 00s British crime series, with nearly 18% employing a structure wherein multi-protagonist teams display nuclear family-like bonding and dynamics, informing patterns within an individual episode, and... Read More about Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television.

Complexity and clear-sightedness in The Wire (2020)
Book Chapter
Zborowski, J. (in press). Complexity and clear-sightedness in The Wire. In S. Cardwell, J. Bignell, & L. F. Donaldson (Eds.), Complexity / simplicity : Moments in television (126-42). Manchester University Press

Craptacular science and the worst audience ever : memetic proliferation and fan participation in The Simpsons (2016)
Thesis
Gilboy, J. D. Craptacular science and the worst audience ever : memetic proliferation and fan participation in The Simpsons. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218439

The objective of this thesis is to establish meme theory as an analytical paradigm within the fields of screen and fan studies. Meme theory is an emerging framework founded upon the broad concept of a “meme”, a unit of culture that, if successful, pr... Read More about Craptacular science and the worst audience ever : memetic proliferation and fan participation in The Simpsons.

Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social (2016)
Journal Article
Zborowski, J. (2016). Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social. Critical studies in television, 11(1), 7-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602015619632

This article seeks to intervene in the ‘television aesthetics’ versus ‘media and cultural studies’ debate. It argues that aesthetic evaluation does not necessarily rely upon bad textual others or result in canon construction. It engages with Bourdieu... Read More about Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social.

Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication (2015)
Book
Zborowski, J. (2015). Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication. Manchester University Press

© James Zborowski 2016. All rights reserved. This book offers a new approach to filmic point of view by combining close analyses informed by the tools of narratology and philosophy with concepts derived from communication studies. Each chapter stages... Read More about Classical Hollywood cinema: Point of view and communication.

How time works in the Simpsons (2015)
Journal Article
Gilboy, J., Davis, A. M., & Zborowski, J. (2015). How time works in the Simpsons. Animation : an interdisciplinary journal, 10(3), 175-188. https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847715602403

© The Author(s) 2015. This article uses two groups of case-study episodes to explore the complexities and perplexities that arise from the long-running use of a 'floating timeline' within The Simpsons. First, the conflicting representations of the yo... Read More about How time works in the Simpsons.

New mobile visualities and the social communication of photography : Instagram as a case study (2015)
Thesis
Serafinelli, E. New mobile visualities and the social communication of photography : Instagram as a case study. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217513

This research intends to show how visuality, through the mobility of Instagram (a social media platform designed for photo sharing), is modifying individuals’ perception of the world and their mediated lives. It examines how Instagram transforms indi... Read More about New mobile visualities and the social communication of photography : Instagram as a case study.

(G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium (2014)
Journal Article
Steward, T., & Zborowski, J. (2014). (G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium. Journal of British cinema and television, 11(2-3), 189-212. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0203

This article’s subject is Ghostwatch (BBC, 1992), a drama broadcast on Halloween night of 1992 which adopted the rhetoric of live non-fiction programming, and attracted controversy and ultimately censure from the Broadcasting Standards Council. In wh... Read More about (G)hosting television: Ghostwatch and its medium.

Townes Van Zandt: "Now here's what this story's told." (2013)
Book Chapter
Falconer, P., & Zborowski, J. (2013). Townes Van Zandt: "Now here's what this story's told.". In T. A. Holmes, & R. Harde (Eds.), Walking the line: country music as literature (131-144). Lexington Books

The Rhetoric of The Wire. (2010)
Journal Article
Zborowski, J. (2010). The Rhetoric of The Wire. Movie : a journal of film criticism, 1-6