{"title":"Television’s scalar play: Invitations to scalar thinking across the intimate and the global","authors":"Sofia Bull","doi":"10.1177/17496020261486245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261486245","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines how contemporary television engages with scale, arguing that the medium routinely prompts viewers to navigate conceptually between micro and macro perspectives. Bringing television studies into dialogue with scale theory, the article demonstrates how diverse programmes – using <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Last of Us</jats:italic> (2023–present), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Familier som vores</jats:italic> [ <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Families Like Ours</jats:italic> ] (2024), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Eurovision Song Contest</jats:italic> (1956–present) and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">UEFA Champions League</jats:italic> (1956–present) as case studies – mobilise narrative, thematic and visual strategies of scalar play that invite the viewer to conduct scalar thinking across individual experiences, collective formations and planetary frameworks. Aerial views, long shots emphasising size differences, glocal address and repeated returns to life-sized close-ups invite audiences to consider their position within networks that extend beyond the human. While television often re-centres anthropocentric perspectives through its grammar of intimacy, these scalar dynamics still encourage meaningful shifts in perception. The article argues that television’s routine engagements with scale cultivate everyday multi-scalar awareness.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149229873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Radical Children’s Film and Television BrownNoel (ed.), Radical Children’s Film and Television (2025) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. 326 pp. ISBN 9781399536059.","authors":"Emma Horsley-Heather","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480576","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Penda’s Fen: Scene by Scene GreavesIan, Penda’s Fen: Scene by Scene (2025). London: Ten Acre Films. 362 pp + 21 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-9086-3087-2.","authors":"Tom May","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History Darian-SmithKateTurnbullSueKhoranaSukhmaniHarveyKyle (2025). Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History. Routledge. 278 pp. ISBN 9781032856940.","authors":"Liam Burke","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480577","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Alexandre Diallo and Sandra Laugier (eds). Women in security television (2025) DialloAlexandreLaugierSandra (eds) (2025). Women in Security Television. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 194 ISBN 9781032819204","authors":"Peter Chai","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480515","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: New Queer Television: From Marginalisation to Mainstreamification BrassingtonThomasFerredayDebraGirardDany (eds), (2024). New Queer Television: From Marginalisation to Mainstreamification. Bristol, UK: Intellect. 211 pp. ISBN 9781835950067.","authors":"Craig Haslop","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Beyond the Screen: The Future of Television and Advertising AycockFrank A.. (2026). Beyond the Screen: The Future of Television and Advertising. New York: Routledge. 207 pp. ISBN 9781041037903.","authors":"Yixin Chu","doi":"10.1177/17496020261480506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261480506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural specificity and transnational coproduction: A case study of Irish/New Zealand crime drama, The Gone","authors":"Trisha Dunleavy","doi":"10.1177/17496020261484580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261484580","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a case study in transnational coproduction using Irish/New Zealand crime drama serial, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Gone</jats:italic> (TVNZ/RTÉ, 2023-24), the first major coproduction between these countries. Examining <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Gone</jats:italic> ’s exemplification of what Havens’ (2018) terms ‘conspicuous localism’, the article links the cultural equality that characterised this drama’s writing and filming to the maximisation of cultural specificity in the finished show. Informed by interview insights from <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Gone</jats:italic> ’s producers and writers, the article foregrounds creative processes for high-end drama, and reveals the continuing importance of traditional coproduction pathways when SVoD investment is unavailable, for high-end TV dramas produced in small markets.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"430 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148979508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Getting along with despair”: finding healing within the post-apocalypse","authors":"Susan Noh","doi":"10.1177/17496020261484585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261484585","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the manga-turned-anime, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou</jats:italic> , to analyze the potential for the hybrid genre of post-apocalyptic <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">iyashi-kei</jats:italic> to transcend the neoliberal ideologies that tend to characterize each genre respectively. <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Iyashi-kei,</jats:italic> translated to mean ‘healing’, is a category of self-care that prioritizes control over one’s ambiance to help individuals regulate the psychosomatic self. In observing how these qualities manifest in post-apocalyptic television, I argue that <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">iyashi-kei</jats:italic> healing leverages the post-apocalyptic genre to embrace the potentials of queer failure and aligning the self with the Other, while simultaneously rejecting repro-futurism.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I don’t want to be a Hulk. I just got my own office!”: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) and representations of gendered corporate cultures","authors":"Ellie Tomsett","doi":"10.1177/17496020261484572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261484572","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses, through a feminist media studies lens, the representations of corporate cultures portrayed within the Marvel series <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">She-Hulk: Attorney at Law</jats:italic> (2022) produced for Disney+. The protagonist, Jennifer Walters, in both “normal Jen” and “She-Hulk” forms, is forced to navigate numerous gendered environments and expectations as part of working within the legal profession as a defence lawyer. The show, in line with popular forms of western fourth wave feminism engages with numerous contemporary gender issues, including women’s safety, expectations of normative femininity, workplace identity, and diversity work. This article explores how the character of Jen/She-Hulk, within the parameters of the superhero comedy form, provides a site for pop culture critique of the gendered aesthetic and emotional labour women undertake within corporate workplaces, as well as the diversity work expected of women and racially minoritised people. In a post #MeToo context the series makes sophisticated use of its comedic elements to humorously examine the pressures women experience when working in male-dominated corporate environments.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"372 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148898898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}