{"title":"Book review: Filming in European cities: The labor of location Çelik RappasIpek A. (2025) Filming in European Cities: The Labor of Location. New York: Cornell University Press; 180 pp. ISBN 9781501779978 (hbk), ISBN 9781501779985 (pbk), ISBN 9781501779992 (epub).","authors":"Yufei Guo","doi":"10.1177/17496020261454974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261454974","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"155 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286098","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: Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics RustadGry C (2025) Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics. London and New York: Routledge. 104 pp. ISBN 9781032657806, (hbk), ISBN 9781032657844 (ebk).","authors":"Shiyuan Shi, Biyu Wu","doi":"10.1177/17496020261454958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261454958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286100","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: Rewriting television PeirseAlison (2025) Rewriting Television. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press; 178 pp. ISBN 9781978839625 (hbk), ISBN 9781978839618 (pbk), ISBN 9781978839632 (ebk).","authors":"Julia Stolyar","doi":"10.1177/17496020261454957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261454957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286101","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":"Television as technology of remembrance: Cultural alchemy in post-apocalyptic seriality","authors":"Reza Ashouri Talooki","doi":"10.1177/17496020261455956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261455956","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops ‘cultural alchemy’ as a media studies framework for understanding how post-apocalyptic television recasts survival as creative cultural practice rather than mere endurance. Focusing on <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Walking Dead</jats:italic> (AMC, 2010–2022) and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Station Eleven</jats:italic> (HBO, 2021–2022), it examines how serial storytelling, industrial context, and visual aesthetics model cultural transformation through objects, performance, and chosen kinship. Drawing on television studies (Mittell, 2015), memory theory (Assmann, 2011; Nora, 1989), and material culture scholarship (Hoskins, 1998; Miller, 2010), the article argues that serial form builds ‘memorial density’, enabling both audience meaning-making and corporate narrative control within a technology of remembrance.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286102","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":"Comedy as a Trojan horse for cultural-ideological pedagogy: The sitcom Las Fierbinți as hegemonic discourse in Romania","authors":"Aurelian Giugăl, Alexandru Gavriș, Romina Surugiu","doi":"10.1177/17496020261450007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261450007","url":null,"abstract":"The popular Romanian sitcom <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Las Fierbinți</jats:italic> serves as a cultural-ideological pedagogical instrument propagating urban middle-class and neoliberal values. The show ridicules semi-rural inhabitants, portraying them negatively and implying their inability to adapt to modern society. Multimodal critical discourse analysis reveals the sitcom’s national-pedagogical objectives, which it pursues through promoting several key themes. The show explicitly supports national public policies, positioning them as triumphs over rural ignorance and scepticism. It also espouses cultural progressivism, while reinforcing neoliberal individualism by attributing economic stagnation to individual moral failure and a supposedly weak work ethic, imposing its ideas towards a form of cultural hegemony.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286103","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":"Israeli-Palestinian intersectional cringe dramedy: HaTasritai ( The Screenwriter ) as case study","authors":"Itay Harlap","doi":"10.1177/17496020261450920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261450920","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the emergence of ‘intersectional cringe dramedy’ in the Israeli television landscape, following the concept of the ‘feminist cringe comedy’ (Nussbaum, 2017) and building on Havas and Sulimma’s observation on dramedies dealing with ‘intersectional relations of identity politics’ (Havas and Sulimma, 2020). The study first surveys how the Israeli sitcom has been influenced by American and British sitcoms, both in textual characteristics and discursive features, eventually leading to the rise of ‘cringe dramedy’. The article then analyses <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">HaTasritai</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Screenwriter</jats:italic> ) as a case study, examining how generic awareness facilitates viewer identification with the series’ Palestinian-Israeli protagonist as he navigates the contradictions of Palestinian cultural production within Israeli society. This complex identity position, as I will argue, becomes central to both the narrative of the series and the cringe-inducing viewing experience for the Israeli audience.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286104","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":"In front of a live studio audience: Production design and liveness in celebrity chat shows","authors":"Geraint D’Arcy","doi":"10.1177/17496020261449050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261449050","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the spatial and aesthetic use of a live studio audience as an element of design in celebrity chat shows. It establishes an aesthetic framework of un-scripted television formats using Richard Levin’s 1961 book <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Television by Design</jats:italic> , identifying abstraction and stylisation as fundamental to shaping the audience and performance spaces of contemporary chat show formats. With close analysis of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Wogan</jats:italic> (1983-1991) and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Graham Norton Show</jats:italic> (2007-2026), the categories of space, the inclusion of a studio audience, their performative functions, and their live aesthetics are established as an integral element to the design of the show format in an era of fragmented, on-demand content.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148289693","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":"In pursuit of authenticity: Netflix’s algorithmic cosmopolitanism","authors":"Jean K. Chalaby","doi":"10.1177/17496020261440235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261440235","url":null,"abstract":"Netflix’s competitive edge lies in its capacity to make its programmes travel. Its digital architecture and content strategy are aligned to achieve this objective. While Netflix has expanded its commissioning footprint to seek out local narratives, this pursuit of cultural specificity is shaped by commercial imperatives. Cultural specificity is no longer self-contained but reconstructed and performed as authenticity for an algorithmic infrastructure. Consequently, Netflix’s catalogue resembles a Derridean universe in which cultural difference is reconfigured as algorithmic <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">différance</jats:italic> . As the meaning of cultural values is deferred in time and space, the value of cultural meaning becomes fleeting and uncertain.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286106","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":"Breaking boundaries: Smallness and the dynamics of European audiovisual industries in the age of streaming","authors":"Nino Domazetovikj, Tim Raats, Karen Donders","doi":"10.1177/17496020261441478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261441478","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the foundational work on small-nation screen industries in Europe was developed when linear broadcasting was the norm. Digital distribution and subscription video-on-demand business models have since reshaped sector dynamics. This study examines whether existing frameworks still capture the dynamics shaping audiovisual sectors in small nations. The findings show that the small-market perspective remains a useful analytical framework in a multiplatform environment as many of the established patterns of smallness persist in the streaming age. However, streaming also reshapes traditional definitions of small-nation broadcasting and screen sectors and reveals important qualitative differences among European small markets, opening up new opportunities to overcome some of the constraints of smallness.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147636045","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":"A utopian desire called dystopia: Analysing transnational projections of anti-capitalist futures in four post-apocalyptic television series","authors":"Ruben Perez Hidalgo","doi":"10.1177/17496020261439539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261439539","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the transnational appeal of post-apocalyptic narratives lies in the fact that, even as they depict new forms of domination, they also envision the end of a world in which one of capitalism’s defining ideology of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">homo economicus</jats:italic> is non-existent and its concurrent malady, the axis of alienation and exploitation, has been extinguished. Accordingly, through analysis of four post-apocalyptic television series – <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Station Eleven</jats:italic> (2022), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Last of Us</jats:italic> (2023), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Collapse</jats:italic> (2019), and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Offworld</jats:italic> (2022) – the article shows how these televisual texts articulate utopian possibilities emerging through the dystopian conditions generated by societal collapse.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147524049","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}