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EastEnders and the environment: Communicating the planetary crisis in prime time? 伦敦东区人和环境：在黄金时段传播地球危机？

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251340359

Lesley Henderson

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Syndication in a FAST world: Lineages and ruptures 快速世界中的辛迪加：传承与破裂

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251344737

Mike Van Esler

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Television beyond the pleasure principle: The death drive in The Office (UK) and other cringe comedy 超越快乐原则的电视：《办公室》（英国）和其他令人畏缩的喜剧中的死亡驾驶

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251344580

Marshall Meyer

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Queen of Netflix: Streaming Shondaland Netflix的女王：流媒体秀德兰

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251342021

Olivia Khoo

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An ( EastEnders ) education: Social interventions, collective proselytising, male fandom and EastEnders 《东区人》教育：社会干预、集体传教、男性狂热和东区人

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251340583

Mark Fryers, Adrian Ashby

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BeastEnders: Pets and Soap Opera 《野兽终结者：宠物与肥皂剧

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251340357

Brett Mills

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Death of a matriarch: Soap opera aesthetics, space and memory 女族长之死：肥皂剧美学、空间与记忆

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251339438

Faye Woods

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Women’s broadcasting histories and the archive: National, transnational and transmedial entanglements 妇女广播的历史和档案：国家、跨国和跨媒体的纠缠

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251330853

Sarah Arnold, Janet McCabe, Kylie Andrews, Alec Badenoch, Jeannine Baker, Vicky Ball, Elisa Hendriks, Vanessa Jackson, Kate Murphy, Ipsita Sahu, Kristin Skoog, Kate Terkanian, Helen Warner

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Solving ‘The Six’: EastEnders , convergence culture, and ‘forensic fandom’ 破解“六人组”：伦敦东区人、融合文化和“法医粉丝圈”

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-04-30 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251339398

Rebecca Williams

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Spaces for criticism: the Play for Today Viewing Group on work, gender and the body in The Bevellers (1974) and Not for the Likes of Us (1980) 批评的空间：《今日之戏》（1974）和《不适合我们这样的人》（1980）中观看组对工作、性别和身体的看法

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Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1177/17496020251336669

Katie Crosson, Tom May

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