{"title":"Tracing Bergman in Contemporary Indian Cinema: Philosophical Cross-Connections in Through a Glass Darkly, Ship of Theseus and Dear Molly","authors":"A. Devasundaram","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1868046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868046","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ingmar Bergman’s cinema has most often been framed within strictures of a Eurocentric scholarly template and structuralist or modernist philosophical approaches. Meanwhile, the filmmaker’s monumental influence on and relevance to global cinema beyond the West has often been overlooked or elided in Anglophone writing. Against the canvas of this gap in scholarship, this article ultimately discloses how Bergman’s fairly well-known filmic influence on Indian Bengali arthouse auteur Satyajit Ray was not an arbitrarily evanescent one-off. The trace of Bergman’s cinematic imprimatur – particularly, I will argue, Through a Glass Darkly – is also legible in India’s new independent cinema, exemplified by two films analyzed ahead: Anand Gandhi’s Ship of Theseus and Gajendra Ahire’s Dear Molly. These films’ translocation of storyline segments to Sweden and portrayals of the Scandinavian landscape testify to the trace of Bergman that haunts such Indian film narratives. Through comparative close textual analyses, this study maps intertwining threads of existential and nihilism-engaged philosophies combined with esthetic aspects connecting the three films, to demonstrate the enduring cinematic impact and resonance of Bergman’s cinema beyond the Western sphere.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49424137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"K-pop idols: popular culture and the emergence of the Korean music industry","authors":"M. Adams","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1868045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45172365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representing rape culture on teen television","authors":"E. Ryalls","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1868044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868044","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Increasing cultural attention to sexual assault in the U.S. has raised questions about consent, leading some states to implement “yes means yes” laws. In order to provide insight into how mainstream discourse take into account feminist understandings of sexual violence and affirmative consent, this article considers representations of rape culture and affirmative consent in two recent teen television programs, 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020) and Sweet/Vicious (2016–2017). Both shows reference sexual assault in nearly every episode, constructing a world in which rape culture is rampant. In portraying rape as lack of consent, as opposed to outright refusal or resistance, the shows do the important work of emphasizing why affirmative consent is essential. While progressively suggesting that rape culture necessitates affirmative consent, 13 Reasons Why and Sweet/Vicious simultaneously contribute to rape culture by relying on the long-standing trope that, when it comes to girls and sexual assault, “no” may mean “yes.”","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46082036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Israeli TV creators’ social justifications","authors":"Yuval Gozansky, Noa Lavie","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1868043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868043","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the past three decades, side-by-side with the growing precariousness of the global television industry, a distinction between “quality” TV and “trashy,” commercial TV has been established in many Western TV production fields. As a result, television creators – writers, producers, and directors – confront multi-faceted moral, financial, and professional dilemmas as well as struggles over positions and prestige. Taking the Israeli TV field as a case study, this article aims to study the set of social justifications employed by television creators vis-à-vis the above dilemmas. Drawing on Boltanski and Thévenot’s concepts of social justification and the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, this article finds that in trying to resolve ideological contradictions between commerce and notions of artistry, Israeli television creators assume the position of professionals with social responsibility and artistic conviction.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1868043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43539970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exile Bergman a play written and directed by America Vera-Zavala","authors":"America Vera-Zavala","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1841201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841201","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In EXILE BERGMAN, five individuals from around the world recount their experiences learning about Sweden from afar through the films of Ingmar Bergman. Once immigrated to the Scandinavian nation, however, each of these travelers realizes that the enthusiasm they have for the superstar Nordic director is not shared by their new neighbors. America Vera-Zavala’s play, which premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm under her direction on August 31, 2018, explores a different kind of exile, where emigrants’ specific understandings of their new culture is not, in fact, largely shared by other members of that culture. Vira-Zavala’s work, crafted in collaboration with her subject-performers, shows Sweden as an globally imagined community, one contested by many of its citizens but no less real for that.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47136865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surveying research on favelas and the media: emphases and absences in decades of critical explorations","authors":"Helton Levy","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1841195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Brazil’s favelas have grown in visibility over the last decades much because of the media produced from these communities. This paper surveys decades of scholarly research to review what it is known about relationship of these communities with the media. Results find emphases on the use of the media to memorialize dwellers’ struggles, favela media as popular culture, and a set of partnerships with NGOs. After the 2000s, as these communities are rendered on mainstream media productions, scholars also started seeing favela inhabitants turning into digital activists. Methodologically, much attention has been given to ethnographic observation, while scholarship remains less invested in understanding local frames and discourses.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48963080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Title: Who are the “grassroots”? On the ambivalent class orientation of online wordplay in China","authors":"Yanning Huang","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1841196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841196","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Chinese cyberspace is vibrant with new expressions created and disseminated by Internet users. Generally light in tone, they have been viewed by numerous media scholars as constituting a playful and satirical form of speech which exemplifies “grassroots” netizens’ carnivalesque resistance against the authoritarian party-state. Adopting a critical sociolinguistic perspective, the article focuses on the textual constructions of two online buzzwords diaosi and shamate to illustrate the ambivalent class orientation of Chinese Internet discourse. It argues that while the diaosi wordplay appears to signify an underprivileged or grassroots identity, its discursive construction is in effect characterized by an intermediate position which oscillates between identifying with the economically dominant and recognizing the truly subordinate social groups in contemporary China – such as rural migrant workers. The social stratification and hierarchy of Internet users, as well as the simultaneous cooption of digital culture by institutional forces must be taken into account so as to fully evaluate the political implications of playful online practices in China and beyond.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45357789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thriving telenovelas: TV Globo’s strategies for keeping the genre relevant","authors":"S. Joyce","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1841198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841198","url":null,"abstract":"Brazilian telenovelas are the number one locally produced and consumed program in the country and the majority of Brazilians still watch their beloved shows “on TV.” In fact Brazilians spend on ave...","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47648301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The dialectic of digital culture","authors":"J. DeCook","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2020.1841199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841199","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century has been marked by endless debates about the nature of digital technology. Particularly in the last ten years, there have been many questions raised about the simultaneous empoweri...","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2020.1841199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44778452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}