{"title":"Book Review: The Early Years of Television and the BBC","authors":"Nick Hall","doi":"10.1177/17496020231177828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231177828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"328 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41539617","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":"Supporting children’s drama in the on demand age: Assessing the efficacy of forty years of Australian policy frameworks and funding schemes","authors":"A. Potter","doi":"10.1177/17496020231170266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231170266","url":null,"abstract":"This is a case study of 40 years of policy approaches in Australian children’s television during which the children’s television production ecology was profoundly altered by new distribution technologies. For decades Australia used quotas, subsidies and screen organisation The Australian Children’s Television Foundation to safeguard supplies of children’s television including drama. Digitisation has caused enormous industrial disruption while delivering abundant children’s content on demand. The article calls for new approaches to supporting local children’s screen content through increased funding of public service media rather than the ad hoc distribution of resources to an organisation without direct pathways to audiences.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83824736","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":"‘That’s good’: An industrial, ethics-focused analysis of the televised works of Anthony Bourdain","authors":"M. Beattie","doi":"10.1177/17496020231168067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231168067","url":null,"abstract":"Despite critical and popular acclaim, the travel/food television series of Anthony Bourdain have not received much academic attention. This paper examines the negotiations required of the series’ production team with regard to industry and ethics, including engagement with multiple forms of ‘quality’ to acquire audience share, which can exist in tension with the ethical requirements of veracity and protecting factual media subjects from harm. Ultimately, this paper shows that, while the series did negotiate both industrial and ethical requirements with regard to the places and cultures they represented, they were prone to ethical slippage with regard to practitioner/subject Bourdain himself.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84393277","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: Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television","authors":"K. Gorton","doi":"10.1177/17496020231160827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231160827","url":null,"abstract":"Alexandra James Salichs is an HSF Scholar and Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research includes Latinx and Latin American representation with a focus on Puerto Rico. She has presented in past conferences such as Visible Evidence, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Northeast Modern Language Association, and the Midwest Popular Culture Association. She has received awards which include the Roland Wood Fellowship, the Amherst Memorial Fellowship and the Plitt Southern Theatres Employees Fellowship.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"233 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41533562","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":"Autism spectrum disorder in contemporary American sitcoms: Narrative and social implication","authors":"Betty Kaklamanidou","doi":"10.1177/17496020231163306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231163306","url":null,"abstract":"The Big Bang Theory, Atypical and Community are sitcoms paradigmatic of a recent representational shift, in which center stage is assumed by individuals who face psychological and neurological challenges. Sheldon Cooper ( TBBT), Sam Gardner ( Atypical) and Abed Nadir ( Community) are young male protagonists who all fall somewhere on the spectrum of autism. These representations signal a breakthrough from past, mainly cinematic depictions, which stereotypically addressed mentally challenged individuals as unstable, problematic, and crazy. Our goal is to examine the narrative and social function of autism in these three sitcoms. The theoretical context uses Thomas Elsaesser ’s concept of “productive pathologies” (2009) to argue that autism is also a “productive pathology” that can be applied in the study of contemporary sitcoms. Autism spectrum disorder as a “productive pathology” is then combined with the Incongruity Theory of humour in order to analyze how Sheldon’s, Sam’s and Abed’s developmental disorder is used to create a distinct type of incongruous comedy and at the same time destabilize notions of identity and social “propriety.”","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73619026","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":"Queen Sono: Netflix Original as postfeminist South African spy thriller","authors":"Shelley-Jean Bradfield","doi":"10.1177/17496020231161442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231161442","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Netflix’s changing business strategies to diversify its catalogues, examining the practices of ‘direct commissioning’ and genre adaptation. The case study of Queen Sono, the first Netflix African Original, reveals how the spy thriller conventions are leveraged to attract a Western audience even as the series is adapted to the African context. Although Queen is portrayed as a female spy with clear moral impulses, I argue that her agency is constrained by the male-dominated spy thriller conventions and the transnational postfeminist sensibility of the series which Netflix paradoxically needs to utilise to attract both African and transnational subscribers.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"163 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44659765","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 Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama","authors":"Trisha Dunleavy, E. Weissmann","doi":"10.1177/17496020231161643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231161643","url":null,"abstract":"In January 2023, yielding what was described as a “landmark moment for the creative industry in Wales” (Morris, 2023) it was announced that Netflix had purchased Welsh heist drama Dal y Mellt [Catch the Lightning] (S4C, 2023-present). This acquisition has further extended the already impressive linguistic diversity of Netflix’s TV drama catalogue, will be the first long-form drama on Netflix which was filmed entirely in Cymraeg (Welsh language), and it allows this Welsh drama and Cymraeg itself to reach a multinational audience (Morris, 2023). Since this acquisition occurred within just a few months of this drama’s S4C debut in October 2022, Netflix’s purchase of Dal y Mellt suggests a pleasing level of confidence in its potential to engage this streamer’s nearglobal audience. Although an acquisition rather than a full commission or coproduction for Netflix, this decision provides further evidence of the increasing cultural diversity and specificity of the high-end TV drama that is now on offer to international audiences and of the contributions of Netflix and other multinational premium providers to this development. Entitled ‘Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-End Drama’ this themed issue examines an increasing flow of high-end drama productions being produced outside the US, often facilitated by means of transnational coproduction deals that entail full financing or co-financing from leading US-owned premium players. While TV drama continues to be facilitated and produced in traditional ways, and national broadcasters remain the mainstay for this, the most notable recent change, in terms of sustaining this flow of transnational high-end dramas, has been the increasing commissioning activity of multinational subscription video-on-demand (or SVODs), indicatively Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Disney+. As the TV drama case studies that comprise this","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"117 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42019359","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":"Finding words: Aesthetic criticism and television","authors":"James Walters","doi":"10.1177/17496020231154462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231154462","url":null,"abstract":"Those endorsing or opposing the development of television aesthetics scholarship have exhibited an admirable willingness to reflect upon the rationales and motivations for formulating value judgements. However, very little equivalent attention has been afforded to processes that occur within this area: how scholars conduct analysis and develop claims for achievement in television. In addressing this lack, the following article surveys some of the meanings that ‘criticism’ has encompassed in Television Studies, offering ‘aesthetic criticism’ as a useful term to describe the work of analysis and evaluation, before moving to a series of close readings of aesthetic criticism in practice.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82079937","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":"Netflix, Spanish television, and La casa de papel: Growing global and local TV together in the multiplatform era","authors":"Gary Edgerton","doi":"10.1177/17496020221146057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221146057","url":null,"abstract":"This institutional-industrial analysis evaluates how Netflix’s post-2016 rebranding efforts resulted in its ongoing transition from a centrally-managed multinational corporation, based mainly in Silicon Valley, to a more decentralised transnational operation with multiple interconnected headquarters worldwide. Utilising a blended macro-micro critical perspective, Netflix’s October 2015 debut in Spain is examined as an inflection point for this subscription video on demand (SVOD) change agent, Spain’s then-traditional TV infrastructure and the transnational television industry. Netflix’s eventual integration into the Spanish television landscape and its transnational distribution of La casa de papel [Money Heist] (2017–21) serve as a two-fold object lesson into how glocal relations occur during TVIV.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"128 - 147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46485126","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":"Government public relations, audiovisual communication and the informalisation of Sweden","authors":"E. Stjernholm","doi":"10.1177/17496020221146067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221146067","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the role of television as a ‘new media’ in government public relations. Drawing on sociological theories on informalisation, this study analyses three features of the Swedish public information programme Anslagstavlan during the 1970s and 1980s: first, formal techniques such as editing, pacing and use of animations; second, narrative strategies including the utilisation of celebrity advertising and intertextuality; and last, the rhetoric of public information. The study shows that the engineering of informality was a key communication strategy for government agencies and that televised information contributed to the conversationalisation and personalisation of government agencies’ communication in medium-specific ways.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75011198","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}