University of Nottingham

Graduate Student, Department of Culture, Film and Media

Other Affiliations: University of Derby, Arts, Design and Technology

PhD Student

Thesis Title: Prime Times: Technology, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Contemporary US TV Drama

About

JP Kelly is a doctoral student in the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. He recently served as the articles editor for Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies. His main research interests include contemporary American Television, branding, media technologies and neo/post-network TV distribution.

Before beginning his PhD, he worked as an editing instructor at The London Film School. More recently, he has pursued this interest in film and television production, convening a course on television drama at the University of Derby.

Recent conference papers include:

‘Sky Vs. Virgin: the battle of the brands’, TV Without Borders, University of Reading, June 2008.

‘Branding Subscription TV: the promotional discourse of Lost and Sarah Connor’ Flow, University of Austin, Texas, October 2008. Available at: http://www.flowtv.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/jp-kelly.pdf

'Beyond the Broadcast Text: New Economies and Ephemeralities of Online TV', Ephemeral Media, University of Nottingham, July 2009.

'Lost in Prime Time: The Temporal Complexities and Narrative Continuities of Contemporary US TV Serials', Memory, Identity and New Fantasy Cultures, University of Kingston, October 2010.

Book Reviews:

"Television in Transition: The Life and Afterlife of the Narrative Action Here" by Shawn Shimpach, 227-229. In Journal of Popular Communication, 9 (3), 2011. Available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15405702.2011.587169

"Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema" by Garrett Stewart. In Scope: An Online Journal of Film & Television Studies, (13) Feb 2009. Available at: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/bookreview.php?issue=13&id=1111


Twitter: @jippykelly

http://twitter.com/#!/jippykelly

Google Profile:

https://plus.google.com/103286136704700757413/about

Mendeley Profile:

http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jp-kelly

Ephemeral Media Book:

http://us.macmillan.com/ephemeralmedia/PaulGrainge

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/products/paul+grainge/ephemeral+media/8596956/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ephemeral-Media-Transitory-Culture-Television/dp/1844574342


Keywords: JP Kelly Nottingham; John-Paul Kelly Nottingham; TVIII; Narrative Time; Temporality; Distribution

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