《野兽终结者：宠物与肥皂剧

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

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

Brett Mills

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摘要

虽然肥皂剧通常把故事情节集中在人类身上，但动物在其中也扮演着重要的角色。以系列中最常见的动物——狗为重点，分析了动物在《伦敦东区人》（1985年至今）中扮演的角色，突出了基于物种的等级制度和流行文化中常态化的人类中心主义。这里的重点是宠物如何作为家庭、家庭和人与动物关系的象征。利用动物研究和批判性动物研究方法，分析显示了肥皂剧是如何利用宠物的表征的，以及这些功能在长期运行的情节肥皂剧提供的特殊乐趣方面所实现的功能。

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BeastEnders: Pets and Soap Opera

While soap operas typically focus their storylines on human characters, animals serve significant roles in them too. Focussing on the most common animal in the series – dogs – this analysis examines the functions animals play in EastEnders (1985-present), foregrounding species-based hierarchies and popular culture’s normalised anthropocentrism. The focus here is on how pets function as symbols of the domestic, the familial and human-animal relationships. Drawing on Animal Studies and Critical Animal Studies approaches the analysis shows how soap operas make use of representations of pets, and the functions these fulfil in terms of the particular pleasures long-running, episodic soap operas offer.

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

30.00%

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.