Tinsel, Temporal Loops, and the Televisual Sublime: Christmas TV
To speak of Christmas television is not merely to catalogue schedules or to rank puddings of content by their calorific familiarity. It is, rather, to engage in a seasonal phenomenology: a study of how the nation, draped in LED lights and post-banquet exhaustion, gathers before the softly humming altar of the television set and submits … Read more