{"title":"Reality television and the politics of mass surveillance in channel 4’s hunted","authors":"Sean Brayton","doi":"10.1177/17496020231185103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231185103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is interested in representations of mass surveillance in Hunted, Channel 4’s reality tv series in which ‘ordinary British citizens’ roleplay as ‘fugitives’ that must evade surveillance and capture by ‘the state.’ Here contentious powers of state surveillance are mitigated by (a) the programme’s deployment of a myth of surveillance ‘symmetry’ and a ‘fugitive fantasy’ that obfuscate the racial politics of ‘being watched’ in a post-9/11 climate; (b) personal stories of contestants or ‘fugitives’ that enable a ‘therapeutic self’ that situates the mass surveillance experience as productive and transformative; and (c) the ‘gamification’ of surveillance itself.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80349871","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":"The endeavour for political and professional freedom in Hungarian television during the 1956 October revolution","authors":"P. Rajcsányi","doi":"10.1177/17496020231183883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231183883","url":null,"abstract":"This study tracks the activities of Hungarian Television’s Executive Committee, elected during the October 1956 revolution, which played a key role in the establishment of said television. The work of the Executive Committee included the development of a new television programme policy and structure, as well as the first transmissions of sports events, operas and theatrical performances, the renewal of newscasts and the introduction of entertainment and scientific programmes. It had a long-lasting impact and provided a solid basis for the future operation of Hungarian television.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82063088","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: Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption","authors":"Janna Houwen","doi":"10.1177/17496020231177826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231177826","url":null,"abstract":"reflection and analysis triggered by the narratives animating them. The ability to interpret the contemporary world through the mirror of fiction is seen as a necessity regarding the opportunities that the future may unfold. Behind this practice, Lynch shows us a path of thinking taking shape and arising from an in-depth study of serials, accompanied by the voices of the many philosophers that are mentioned in the various chapters of the book; it is a path that moves under the surface of the texts and much of the sense of a story is produced through the many layers of meaning that are summoned through the ongoing exercise of thinking itself. Only in this way is it possible to produce unprecedented connections between features of the stories and the scenarios of reality. Although Between Habit and Thought undoubtedly presents elements of interest and originality, at times the philosophical speculation runs the risk of prevailing over the ability to bring out the specificities and intrinsic qualities of the serial as a television phenomenon. This is, nevertheless, a book which will be of much interest to those already engaged with philosophical approaches to television analysis.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"338 - 341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47431112","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: Between Habit and Thought in the New Serial Drama","authors":"A. Mascio","doi":"10.1177/17496020231177839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231177839","url":null,"abstract":"in China and the West should learn from each other. Documentaries and China’s National Image makes us realise that, although the communication strategies of the national image in Chinese documentaries have undergone various changes over time, the national agenda has always constrained the creation of documentaries within its own framework. The book is rich in case studies within a certain theoretical framework, and this is the first time the book has been translated into English, which opens a window for international readers to understand Chinese documentary creation.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"336 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48121993","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: Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars","authors":"Catalina Iordache","doi":"10.1177/17496020231160816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231160816","url":null,"abstract":"television exists for everyone. By attending to the diversity of television and the experiences of those watching, Holdsworth breaks down hierarchies of value and challenges the dominance of “quality” television within television studies. A landmark book that will undoubtedly be a foundational text and a catalyst for further research, On Living with Television offers its reader a much-needed alternate perspective on what it means to watch and live with television.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"227 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41400275","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: On Living with Television","authors":"L. Weston","doi":"10.1177/17496020231160854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231160854","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"224 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46530586","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: From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America","authors":"A. Salichs","doi":"10.1177/17496020231160853","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231160853","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"230 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42103349","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: Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating","authors":"K. Geddes","doi":"10.1177/17496020231177825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020231177825","url":null,"abstract":"Nick Hall is a lecturer in film and television studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on post-war British television technology and production. His publications include The Zoom: Drama at the Touch of a Lever (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and, together with John Ellis, the edited collection Hands on Media History: A New Methodology in the Arts and Social Sciences (Routledge, 2019). Most recently, he has completed a history of the independent producers lobbying organisation, Pact.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"18 1","pages":"330 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46376978","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}