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{"title":"Algorithmic Intimacy, Prosthetic Memory, and Gamification in Black Mirror","authors":"Jin Kim","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1871584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1871584","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Black Mirror (2011–current), an anthology science-fiction television series, portrays how digital technologies reflect and shape our dreams and nightmares about the current media environment. The ways in which Black Mirror depicts the world where digital devices are strongly tied to human consciousness and bodies can be elaborated by focusing on three keywords: algorithmic intimacy, prosthetic memory, and gamification. There are two major arguments presented. First, Black Mirror provides critical perspectives on quantified relationships, artificial memory, and social ratings. Second, at the same time, the ways in which this science fiction text portrays current media environments renders these critical representations of digital technologies ironically normalized.","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"152 1","pages":"109 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85392621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EXPLORING STAR TREK: VOYAGER: CRITICAL ESSAYS Ed. Robert L. Lively. McFarland, 2020. 278 pp. $39.95 paper.","authors":"A. Sanna","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1923296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1923296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"123 1","pages":"121 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79601136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE BIONIC WOMAN AND FEMINIST ETHICS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 1970s TELEVISION SERIES By David Greven. McFarland, 2020. 178 pp. $39.95 softcover.","authors":"Michael McKenna","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1923321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1923321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"56 1","pages":"125 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80469687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cuban Television Police Series 1969–1981: A Weapon for the Revolution","authors":"Carlos Uxo","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2020.1842315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2020.1842315","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article analyzes the Cuban television production of police series between 1969 and 1981. It shows the relationship between the series, the cultural policy of the Cuban Revolution, and the primarily educational role of television after the 1959 revolutionary triumph. These series have been produced and developed, until today, under the strict supervision of MININT (Ministerio del Interior, Home Office) and the FAR (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, Revolutionary Armed Forces), and perceived mainly as an invaluable means of propaganda and education. First, the article establishes the relationship between the sociopolitical context of the moment, Cuban cultural policies in the 1970s, and the decision to begin production of homegrown police dramas. Then, the series Sector 40 and Móvil 8 are examined. Both screened during prime time on alternating weekends for a decade (1969–1979), depicting the Cuban security forces’ fight against counterrevolutionary groups and common crime. Next, the article focuses on a number of series that depicted the work of Cuban agents who had infiltrated counterrevolutionary groups. Finally, the series El regreso de David is considered, to show how, by the time it was screened (1981), the Cuban sociopolitical context had undergone deep transformations, which rendered outdated the original formula.","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"451 1","pages":"81 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85853107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AMERICAN BLOCKBUSTER: MOVIES, TECHNOLOGY, AND WONDER By Charles R. Acland. Duke University Press, 2020. 400 pp. $29.95 paper.","authors":"H. Humann","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1923295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1923295","url":null,"abstract":"class, and racial contexts of sex and other intimacies they illuminate “black holes in our imagination” (29). These films reveal our own limited perspectives and help us to become aware of our inability to envision affective relations across difference and of our necessity to expand our imagination and literacies. Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s undeniable contribution to global cinemas is a fantastic read for film and cultural studies scholars and graduate students, as well as researchers in areas such as postcolonial, sexuality, and queer studies.","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"19 1","pages":"120 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78672372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE PROXIMITY OF OTHER SKINS: ETHICAL INTIMACY IN GLOBAL CINEMA By Celine Parreñas Shimizu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 264 pp. $39.95 paper.","authors":"Paula Talero Álvarez","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1923291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1923291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"134 1","pages":"119 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75844897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"YOU’RE NICKED: INVESTIGATING BRITISH TELEVISION POLICE SERIES. By Ben Lamb. Manchester UP, 2020. 232 pp. $120 hardcover.","authors":"K. Flanagan","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1923309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1923309","url":null,"abstract":"T his highly focused book works through British television’s engagement with the police procedural genre, a mainstay of many national traditions. Ben Lamb makes careful distinctions about the genealogy he is tracing, noting that crime in general and detective traditions more specifically are not quite what he has in mind. Instead, he notes “I have chosen for analysis here series that regularly depict the routine work of police constables and detectives” (3). Whatever the correspondences to related traditions (Sherlock Holmes adaptations, for instance), Lamb is looking at the hard core of police television series over several decades, from Dixon of Dock Green (BBC, 1955–1976) to Broadchurch (ITV, 2013–2017). While this is a potentially limiting choice, his methodological choices make up for some of the inherent restrictions in the premise, in that the series under consideration mutate over time such that they come to embrace other genre traditions as a matter of course. First, a word of caution. The book does not do an especially comprehensive job of contextualizing British series in relation to other national television traditions until the end. The first half of the book is very specifically focused on the British television context, such that there is little room for comparison to the genre elsewhere, especially the United States. While reading the chapter on the 1980s, which (to be fair) does provide a fascinating exploration of feminist thought in such series as Juliet Bravo (BBC, 1980–1985) and The Gentle Touch (ITV, 1980–1984), I could not help but think about how these slow, methodical, and somewhat cramped/interior-focused series compared to the cinematic sweep and serialized plots of American series like Miami Vice (NBC, 1984–1990) or Crime Story (NBC, 1986–1988). I would have especially liked to hear about the reception of US series by British audiences, given the major differences in approach. Lamb gets better at this sense of comparative contextualization later in the book, though, in situating 2000s tech and sci-fi inspired series in relation to American counterparts such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000–2015). The chapter on the series of the 2010s is even better in this regard, with Broadchurch and Happy Valley (BBC, 2014–) being discussed in terms of the boom for Nordic Noir, which has had a global resonance through remakes and re-imaginings, and whose focus on landscapes connects readily to the British tradition. Lamb’s approach throughout is to do close readings of a few series that form representative examples of the trends of a given decade. While there is some sense of the larger scope of cop-show series that were running during a given time frame, the book instead jumps quickly into close readings of the chosen series. Truth be told, I wanted a bit more mention of some of the other series, as many are unfamiliar to readers outside of the UK, and I left the book without feeling like I’d fully fleshed out a sense o","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"49 1","pages":"124 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79402627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chronicler of the “American Problem”: An Interview with Kevin Willmott","authors":"Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2021.1868935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2021.1868935","url":null,"abstract":"Kevin Willmott’s journey as an independent filmmaker is an improbable success story. He was born on the 31 August 1958 in Junction City, Kansas, a small city of a little more than 20,000 residents some ninety miles west of the university town of Lawrence and 125 miles from Kansas City, Missouri. He earned his BA in drama from Marymount College in nearby Salina, then an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University. Willmott is a multi-hyphenate—a writer, producer, director, and sometimes actor—who now is in his third decade as an independent moviemaker with major creative credits on fifteen films and counting.","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"30 1","pages":"2 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78023566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RACISM IN AMERICAN FILM. Ed. Salvador Jiménez Murguia. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 805 pp. $125 hardcover, $118 e-book.","authors":"Caroline V. Schroeter","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2020.1868919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2020.1868919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"7 Suppl 6 1","pages":"64 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88334410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THEY DREW AS THEY PLEASED: THE HIDDEN ART OF DISNEY’S MID-CENTURY ERA; THE 1950s AND 1960s.By Didier Ghez. Chronicle Books, 2018. 224 pp. $45.00 hardcover.","authors":"Farisa Khalid","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2020.1868924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2020.1868924","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"1 1","pages":"67 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77173315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}