{"title":"Rapid Evidence Analysis of Diversity in UK Public Service Television: What Do We Know and What Should We Find Out?","authors":"Lee Edwards, Giles Moss","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2024.0697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2024.0697","url":null,"abstract":"This article reports the results of a rapid evidence analysis (REA) of academic research focused on diversity in UK public service television broadcasting, published between 2016 and 2021. The aim of the REA was to establish the scale and quality of academic research on diversity in the context of public service television production, representation and reception, as well as to understand trends in research and gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed. The findings show that research is both sparse and fragmented. It is dominated by studies of on-screen diversity, rather than production or reception, and BBC content receives most attention, while other public service broadcasters are analysed much less frequently. In light of the findings, we propose a number of new directions for research, including a broader range of topics and methods and a more inclusive approach to the broadcast landscape. Analyses should facilitate an understanding of the impact of diversity across production, on-screen and among audiences, and adopt a longitudinal design, so that progress towards diversity over time can be evaluated.","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"140 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139393650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chris Pallant, Beyond Bagpuss: A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio","authors":"Christopher Holliday","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2024.0705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2024.0705","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139457468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jingan Young, <i>Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948–1963</i>","authors":"Steve Chibnall","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the Pastoral Paradise: Orienting Black and Muslim People in British Rural Space","authors":"Lélia Tavakoli Farsooni","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0686","url":null,"abstract":"While there is an increasing number of Black and Muslim stories in urban settings, cultural imaginations of the British rural as linked to whiteness are pervasive. Despite there being a long-established presence of Black and Muslim people in British rural areas, their bodies are excluded or made to disappear to make the rural and, by extension, the nation (supposedly) safe. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s notion of white habit worlds, this article explores the specific ways in which popular imaginations of rural spaces in the UK orient Black and Muslim bodies in relation to rurality. I will argue that whiteness as the racialisation of the pastoral form is closely imbricated with the Christian pastoral notion of Eden by close reading season five of the TV crime drama Shetland, the feature film Four Lions (2010) and the documentary Arcadia (2017). By asking how these configure British rural space through their orientation of Black and Muslim bodies and how they contest or reinforce the (lack of) belonging of bodies considered ‘non-white’/‘non-Christian’ in rural spaces, I inquire how these productions complement each other in what they have to say about the presence of Black and Muslim bodies in British rural space and how this relates to wider debates about immigration and national identity.","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘They know my face’: Surveillance Comedy in <i>Scot Squad</i>","authors":"Stephanie Clayton","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0689","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how surveillance is represented as a means of controlling and managing people in the BBC comedy programme Scot Squad (BBC One Scotland 2014–17; BBC Scotland 2019–). Scot Squad parodies the conventions and aesthetics of the docusoap, specifically the reality crime variety, aligning it with generic frameworks such as mockumentary and comedy vérité. Using Hutcheson's definition of parody, namely, a text that imitates an earlier original text with a crucial difference, I argue that Scot Squad questions the legitimacy and efficacy of a range of surveillance mechanisms, from CCTV to the confession to the observational documentary itself. It does so through its comic narratives but also its adoption of a mock docusoap aesthetic. However, despite its critiquing of surveillance culture, Scot Squad's deployment of these representational and aesthetic tropes in a comedic context arguably helps to normalise and domesticate surveillance behaviours.","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones and Emma Pett, <i>Cinema Memories: A People’s History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain</i>","authors":"Richard Farmer","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0692","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James Downs, <i>Anton Walbrook: A Life of Masks and Mirrors</i>","authors":"Sue Harper","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0690","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>No Time to Die</i>, the Bond Franchise and Global Hollywood: Film Release Patterns during Covid-19","authors":"Andrew Higson, Miya Treadwell","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0685","url":null,"abstract":"No Time to Die ( NTTD), the 25th entry in the Bond franchise, became central to the plight of theatrical film exhibition during the Covid-19 pandemic. Produced as one of MGM’s and the wider industry’s biggest commodities, a tent-pole film, it was due to be released in April 2020. One of the first big film casualties of the global lockdowns, NTTD endured several delays before finally reaching cinemas in September 2021. The Bond franchise and the disruption to NTTD’s release are symptomatic of developments in global Hollywood and the entertainment business. Covid-19 had a huge impact on film exhibition and provoked all sorts of radical experiments by the Hollywood studios with online releases for blockbuster films that would previously have been key players at the global box office. As EON and MGM held out for a theatrical release, the hype around the film in the UK and the USA suggested it might single-handedly save the film exhibition business and finally bring audiences back to cinemas. Indeed, its eventual success at the box office suggested to some that Covid, streaming platforms and the home entertainment business had not after all killed off cinemagoing. But the writing was on the wall, and the extended periods of lockdown in the UK, the USA and elsewhere allowed the digital disruptors to establish an even firmer foothold. Amazon’s purchase of MGM and the Bond IP are prime indicators of that shift.","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amelia Watts and Phil Wickham (eds), <i>Bill Douglas: A Film Artist</i>","authors":"Paul Newland","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135368266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Praise these daring men’: ACT Films Ltd, 1950–1963","authors":"Martin Spence","doi":"10.3366/jbctv.2023.0688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2023.0688","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1950s the film technicians’ trade union, the Association of Cinematograph Technicians (ACT), was a significant force in the film industry. At the same time the ‘second feature’ or ‘B-film’ sector was producing a constant stream of low-budget titles. This article examines an initiative which combined the two: ACT Films Ltd, a film production company active in the second-feature sector, which was created by the union to provide jobs for its unemployed members. It explores some of the internal tensions this generated within ACT, the company’s production record, including its occasional forays beyond B-films, and its relations with other industry players. It also sheds light on the role of the National Film Finance Corporation and the distributor British Lion during this period, and their relations with independent production companies.","PeriodicalId":43079,"journal":{"name":"Journal of British Cinema and Television","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}