Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/17496020231177826
Janna Houwen
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1177/17496020231177839
A. Mascio
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020231160816
Catalina Iordache
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020231160854
L. Weston
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020231160853
A. Salichs
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17496020231177825
K. Geddes
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/17496020231177828
Nick Hall
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Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1177/17496020231170266
A. Potter
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.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-05DOI: 10.1177/17496020231168067
M. Beattie
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.
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