Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.1177/17496020231160827
K. Gorton
Alexandra James Salichs is an HSF Scholar and Ph.D. student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research includes Latinx and Latin American representation with a focus on Puerto Rico. She has presented in past conferences such as Visible Evidence, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Northeast Modern Language Association, and the Midwest Popular Culture Association. She has received awards which include the Roland Wood Fellowship, the Amherst Memorial Fellowship and the Plitt Southern Theatres Employees Fellowship.
Alexandra James Salichs是加州大学洛杉矶分校的HSF学者和博士生。她的研究包括拉丁裔和拉丁美洲代表，重点关注波多黎各。她曾在过去的会议上发表演讲，如视觉证据、电影和媒体研究学会、东北现代语言协会和中西部流行文化协会。她获得了包括罗兰·伍德奖学金、阿默斯特纪念奖学金和普利特南方剧院员工奖学金在内的奖项。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-09DOI: 10.1177/17496020231163306
Betty Kaklamanidou
The Big Bang Theory, Atypical and Community are sitcoms paradigmatic of a recent representational shift, in which center stage is assumed by individuals who face psychological and neurological challenges. Sheldon Cooper ( TBBT), Sam Gardner ( Atypical) and Abed Nadir ( Community) are young male protagonists who all fall somewhere on the spectrum of autism. These representations signal a breakthrough from past, mainly cinematic depictions, which stereotypically addressed mentally challenged individuals as unstable, problematic, and crazy. Our goal is to examine the narrative and social function of autism in these three sitcoms. The theoretical context uses Thomas Elsaesser ’s concept of “productive pathologies” (2009) to argue that autism is also a “productive pathology” that can be applied in the study of contemporary sitcoms. Autism spectrum disorder as a “productive pathology” is then combined with the Incongruity Theory of humour in order to analyze how Sheldon’s, Sam’s and Abed’s developmental disorder is used to create a distinct type of incongruous comedy and at the same time destabilize notions of identity and social “propriety.”
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Pub Date : 2023-03-05DOI: 10.1177/17496020231161442
Shelley-Jean Bradfield
This article explores Netflix’s changing business strategies to diversify its catalogues, examining the practices of ‘direct commissioning’ and genre adaptation. The case study of Queen Sono, the first Netflix African Original, reveals how the spy thriller conventions are leveraged to attract a Western audience even as the series is adapted to the African context. Although Queen is portrayed as a female spy with clear moral impulses, I argue that her agency is constrained by the male-dominated spy thriller conventions and the transnational postfeminist sensibility of the series which Netflix paradoxically needs to utilise to attract both African and transnational subscribers.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1177/17496020231161643
Trisha Dunleavy, E. Weissmann
In January 2023, yielding what was described as a “landmark moment for the creative industry in Wales” (Morris, 2023) it was announced that Netflix had purchased Welsh heist drama Dal y Mellt [Catch the Lightning] (S4C, 2023-present). This acquisition has further extended the already impressive linguistic diversity of Netflix’s TV drama catalogue, will be the first long-form drama on Netflix which was filmed entirely in Cymraeg (Welsh language), and it allows this Welsh drama and Cymraeg itself to reach a multinational audience (Morris, 2023). Since this acquisition occurred within just a few months of this drama’s S4C debut in October 2022, Netflix’s purchase of Dal y Mellt suggests a pleasing level of confidence in its potential to engage this streamer’s nearglobal audience. Although an acquisition rather than a full commission or coproduction for Netflix, this decision provides further evidence of the increasing cultural diversity and specificity of the high-end TV drama that is now on offer to international audiences and of the contributions of Netflix and other multinational premium providers to this development. Entitled ‘Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-End Drama’ this themed issue examines an increasing flow of high-end drama productions being produced outside the US, often facilitated by means of transnational coproduction deals that entail full financing or co-financing from leading US-owned premium players. While TV drama continues to be facilitated and produced in traditional ways, and national broadcasters remain the mainstay for this, the most notable recent change, in terms of sustaining this flow of transnational high-end dramas, has been the increasing commissioning activity of multinational subscription video-on-demand (or SVODs), indicatively Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Disney+. As the TV drama case studies that comprise this
2023年1月，被称为“威尔士创意产业的里程碑式时刻”（Morris，2023），网飞宣布收购了威尔士抢劫剧《抓住闪电》（Dal y Mellt[Catch the Lightning]，S4C，2023至今）。此次收购进一步扩大了Netflix电视剧目录中本已令人印象深刻的语言多样性，这将是Netflix上第一部完全用Cymraeg（威尔士语）拍摄的长篇电视剧，并使这部威尔士电视剧和Cymreag本身能够接触到跨国观众（Morris，2023）。由于此次收购发生在该剧2022年10月S4C首播后的几个月内，网飞对Dal y Mellt的收购表明，网飞有信心吸引该流媒体近全球观众。尽管这是对Netflix的收购，而不是全额委托或联合制作，但这一决定进一步证明了目前向国际观众提供的高端电视剧的文化多样性和特殊性不断增加，以及Netflix和其他跨国优质提供商对这一发展的贡献。本期主题为“国际合拍高端戏剧中的文化多样性”，探讨了美国境外越来越多的高端戏剧制作，通常通过跨国合拍协议来促进，这些协议需要由美国领先的高端演员提供全额融资或共同融资。尽管电视剧继续以传统方式提供便利和制作，而国家广播公司仍然是这方面的支柱，但就维持跨国高端电视剧的流动而言，最近最显著的变化是跨国订阅视频点播（SVOD）的委托活动不断增加，例如Netflix、亚马逊Prime video、HBO Max，以及Disney+。作为电视剧案例研究的组成部分
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Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1177/17496020231154462
James Walters
Those endorsing or opposing the development of television aesthetics scholarship have exhibited an admirable willingness to reflect upon the rationales and motivations for formulating value judgements. However, very little equivalent attention has been afforded to processes that occur within this area: how scholars conduct analysis and develop claims for achievement in television. In addressing this lack, the following article surveys some of the meanings that ‘criticism’ has encompassed in Television Studies, offering ‘aesthetic criticism’ as a useful term to describe the work of analysis and evaluation, before moving to a series of close readings of aesthetic criticism in practice.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.1177/17496020221146057
Gary Edgerton
This institutional-industrial analysis evaluates how Netflix’s post-2016 rebranding efforts resulted in its ongoing transition from a centrally-managed multinational corporation, based mainly in Silicon Valley, to a more decentralised transnational operation with multiple interconnected headquarters worldwide. Utilising a blended macro-micro critical perspective, Netflix’s October 2015 debut in Spain is examined as an inflection point for this subscription video on demand (SVOD) change agent, Spain’s then-traditional TV infrastructure and the transnational television industry. Netflix’s eventual integration into the Spanish television landscape and its transnational distribution of La casa de papel [Money Heist] (2017–21) serve as a two-fold object lesson into how glocal relations occur during TVIV.
这份制度-产业分析评估了Netflix在2016年后的品牌重塑努力是如何使其从一家主要位于硅谷的中央管理跨国公司，转变为一家在全球拥有多个相互关联总部的更分散的跨国公司。本文运用宏观-微观-批判的混合视角，分析了Netflix 2015年10月在西班牙的首次亮相，作为订阅视频点播(SVOD)变革推手、西班牙当时的传统电视基础设施和跨国电视产业的拐点。Netflix最终融入西班牙电视领域，以及它的《金钱抢劫》(La casa de papel)(2017-21)的跨国发行，为TVIV期间全球关系的发生提供了双重对象教训。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1177/17496020221146067
E. Stjernholm
This article addresses the role of television as a ‘new media’ in government public relations. Drawing on sociological theories on informalisation, this study analyses three features of the Swedish public information programme Anslagstavlan during the 1970s and 1980s: first, formal techniques such as editing, pacing and use of animations; second, narrative strategies including the utilisation of celebrity advertising and intertextuality; and last, the rhetoric of public information. The study shows that the engineering of informality was a key communication strategy for government agencies and that televised information contributed to the conversationalisation and personalisation of government agencies’ communication in medium-specific ways.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1177/17496020221136700
Amy C. Chambers
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Pub Date : 2022-12-12DOI: 10.1177/17496020221136715
Ryan Stoldt
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Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1177/17496020221136701
Júlia Havas
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