‘Black Lives Have Always Mattered’: Cultural specificity and transformative representations in Small Axe

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

Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI:10.1177/17496020221122184

Trisha Dunleavy

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Abstract

Small Axe, a series of five films, has brought innovation and prestige to TV drama not only for its overdue history of Caribbean migrant experiences in post-war Britain but also for its transformative representations of Black British people. The article examines three areas of the Small Axe production and text in recognition of their importance to these achievements: its creative genesis as a TV drama inspired by the under-representation of Britain’s Caribbean diaspora; the opportunities it gained as a BBC commission and Amazon coproduction; and the indicators and outcomes of its deployment of the four ‘markers’ of Third Cinema textuality.

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“黑人的生活总是蒙上阴影”：《小斧头》中的文化特异性和变革性表现

由五部电影组成的《小斧头》为电视剧带来了创新和声望，不仅因为它讲述了战后英国加勒比移民经历的历史，还因为它对英国黑人的变革性表现。本文考察了《小斧头》制作和文本的三个方面，以认识到它们对这些成就的重要性:它作为一部电视剧的创作起源，受到英国加勒比侨民代表性不足的启发;作为BBC委托和亚马逊合作制作的机会;以及第三电影文本性的四个“标记”的部署的指标和结果。

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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2.10

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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.