伦敦东区人和环境:在黄金时段传播地球危机?

IF 0.9 2区 艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION
Lesley Henderson
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英国广播公司的旗舰剧《伦敦东区人》(1985-)被广泛认为是“娱乐-教育”模式的典范,体现了一种强烈的公共服务意识形态,植根于雷希斯价值观。在本文中,我探讨了该计划在解决数字时代环境问题方面的定义作用,并认为这是一个新的机会,可以检查该类型参与人为危机的局限性和可能性。我的分析是基于《伦敦东区》的编剧/顾问和可持续发展专业人士的观点,他们认为黄金时段的戏剧提供了一种独特的工具,可以吸引那些被蓝筹自然系列边缘化的独特的、多样化的观众。我第一次探讨了英国流行的环境故事情节产生的背景,并确定了当代充满敌意的电视环境如何在流媒体频道和社交媒体平台的激烈竞争下调节故事情节。我概述了环境故事的动态是如何被外部因素明确塑造的,这些因素包括对气候内容的组织承诺和BBC在催化“全国对话”方面的感知作用。考虑到环境科学家不愿意与这种“低地位”的媒体产品合作,关于“好故事”根植于人际摩擦的强大的隐性假设可能会产生错误的等价物。不断上演的戏剧为通过以人为中心的叙事将气候危机与生活经验联系起来提供了独特的机会,但当代电视制作背景处于不断变化的状态,需要重新审视其在构建公众态度和信仰方面的作用。
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EastEnders and the environment: Communicating the planetary crisis in prime time?
The BBC flagship continuing drama EastEnders (1985-) is widely accepted as an exemplar of the ‘entertainment-education’ approach, embodying a strong public service ideology and rooted in Reithian values. In this paper, I explore the definitional role of the programme in addressing environmental issues in the digital age and argue that this is a novel opportunity to examine the limits and possibilities of the genre to engage with anthropogenic crises. My analysis is informed by the perspectives of EastEnders scriptwriters/consultants and sustainability professionals who perceived prime time drama as providing a unique tool to engage distinctive diverse audiences who are marginalised by blue-chip nature series. For the first time, I address the context in which popular environmental storylines are produced in the UK and identify how storytelling is mediated by the contemporary hostile television environment with intense competition from streaming channels and social media platforms. I outline how the dynamics of environmental storytelling are shaped explicitly by external factors including organisational commitment to climate content and the perceived role of the BBC in catalysing a ‘national conversation’. Powerful tacit assumptions concerning ‘good stories’ being rooted in interpersonal friction potentially risk presenting a false equivalency – given that environmental scientists are reluctant to collaborate with this ‘low status’ media product. Continuing drama facilitates distinct opportunities to connect climate crisis to the lived experience through human-centred narratives but the contemporary television production context is in a state of flux and dated assumptions concerning its role in constructing public attitudes and beliefs need to be revisited.
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Critical Studies in Television
Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-
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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.
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