Television as technology of remembrance: Cultural alchemy in post-apocalyptic seriality

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2026-05-26 DOI:10.1177/17496020261455956

Reza Ashouri Talooki

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Abstract

This article develops ‘cultural alchemy’ as a media studies framework for understanding how post-apocalyptic television recasts survival as creative cultural practice rather than mere endurance. Focusing on The Walking Dead (AMC, 2010–2022) and Station Eleven (HBO, 2021–2022), it examines how serial storytelling, industrial context, and visual aesthetics model cultural transformation through objects, performance, and chosen kinship. Drawing on television studies (Mittell, 2015), memory theory (Assmann, 2011; Nora, 1989), and material culture scholarship (Hoskins, 1998; Miller, 2010), the article argues that serial form builds ‘memorial density’, enabling both audience meaning-making and corporate narrative control within a technology of remembrance.

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电视作为记忆的技术：后启示录系列的文化炼金术

本文将“文化炼金术”发展为一种媒体研究框架，以理解后启示录电视如何将生存重塑为创造性的文化实践，而不仅仅是忍耐。以《行尸走肉》（AMC, 2010-2022）和《十一站》（HBO, 2021-2022）为重点，研究了连续剧叙事、工业背景和视觉美学如何通过对象、表演和选择的亲属关系来模拟文化转型。根据电视研究（Mittell, 2015）、记忆理论（Assmann, 2011; Nora, 1989）和物质文化研究（Hoskins, 1998; Miller, 2010），本文认为，连续剧形式建立了“记忆密度”，使观众的意义制造和企业叙事在记忆技术中得到控制。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

30.00%

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.