Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1177/17496020221124704
Felicia Istad, M. Kim, N. Curran
This article analyses how three South Korean multicultural-themed reality television programmes discursively produce Koreanness. We ground our study in scholarship on ‘othering’ and the notion of banal nationalism (Billig, 1995) and conduct a thematic analysis of the shows. Our findings show that the programmes adopt a Korea-foreign dichotomy that becomes a lens through which viewers can vicariously experience the existence of a unified South Korean culture. We argue that the juxtaposition of a Korean ‘us’ against a foreign ‘them’ precludes imagining a more pluralistic South Korea – even as the programmes ostensibly celebrate South Korea’s increasing diversity.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020221104971
S. Bull
Maria Sulimma, Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021; 264pp.: ISBN 9781474473958 £80 (hbk), 9781474473965 £ 19.99 (pbk forthcoming), 9781474473989 £80 (ePub) and Isabel C Pinedo, Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics of Complex Women in Serial Narratives. London and New York: Routledge, 2021; 202pp.: ISBN 9780367468675 £96 (hbk), 9781003031598 £29.59 (ebk)
《性别与连续性:当代美国电视的实践与政治》(爱丁堡:爱丁堡大学出版社，2021年);264页。: ISBN 9781474473958英镑80 (hbk)， 9781474473965英镑19.99 (pbk即将出版)，9781474473989英镑80 (ePub)和伊莎贝尔C皮涅多，电视剧中的困难女性:连环叙事中复杂女性的性别政治。伦敦和纽约:劳特利奇出版社，2021;202页。: ISBN 9780367468675£96 (hbk)， 9781003031598£29.59 (ebk)
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020221104970
P. Carelli
detrimental to the positive progress of their representation, including, for instance, what she identifies as ‘the temporary lesbian’, ‘the dead lesbian’, and ‘the evil lesbian’. Each example is diligently examined by McNicholas Smith in her consideration of the development of lesbian visibility over time, and the extent to which progress has been made, with arguments that remain clear, engaging and accessible throughout. Whilst the scope of analysis may be limited somewhat through its primary focus on examining case studies of teenage lesbians who are both white and cis-gendered, McNicholas Smith’s research provides an overview of the current state of lesbian representation, introducing the subject to researchers interested in queer studies or, more specifically, lesbian representation and becoming a useful foundation for further research.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1177/17496020221104969
Jade Evans
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Pub Date : 2022-08-26DOI: 10.1177/17496020221121505
C. Geraghty
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17496020221121441
Ekwutosi Sanita Nwakpu
Although the dominant narrative among Africans is that Western media portray Africa in a one-sided and negative way, this belief is being challenged as a result of the intervention of the BBC’s Africa Eye documentaries. Although the series focuses on the dark side of Africa, it succeeds in revealing, in great detail, hidden stories about Africa, particularly Nigeria, of which many citizens were ignorant. As such, negative coverage may help to correct social anomalies and chart a way forward for correcting them. This development is a game-changer that has restored Nigerian audiences' confidence in Western media.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17496020221116230
Iveta Jansová, Alena Macková, C. Elavsky, J. Macek
In the context of constantly changing media communication and the behavior of different actors engaging it, our paper seeks to map current transformations and adaptations to changes within Czech audiences with a special interest in their media routines and strategies for choosing media sources. As it still remains rather unclear how the post-televisual audience members decide regarding content sources, platforms or services, our main aim is to discover on what basis audiences decide to use or avoid either illegal or non-authorized content sources or legal or paid services. To do so, we examined two datasets, namely semi-structured interviews with audiences and survey on Czech adult population. As the Czech industry media market is rather small and conservative with notable changes in online sector largely occurring within the last five years, Czech audiences represent an important and unique population for the study of differences between paying and non-paying post-televisual audiences.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17496020221121485
A. Villarejo
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Pub Date : 2022-08-23DOI: 10.1177/17496020221121457
H. Andrews
When we sent out a call for papers for the BBC at 100 special issues, ‘the BBC in the world’was one of the key themes listed therein. It was striking, on assessing the excellent abstracts that were submitted, that the bulk of these took as their subject matter the BBC’s transnational relationships with its near neighbours, either geographically in Europe, or culturally, in North America. This mirrors a general preponderance in the scholarship on the BBC’s global position, written by Western authors who inevitably approach the subject from a particular point of view. Despite the current efforts in the academy to decolonise our thinking, teaching and research, television studies approaches to the BBC remain dominated by Western perspectives. There is therefore a significant gap in studies of BBC television. We need more studies of the work of the BBC from the perspectives of scholars (and audiences) outside of theWest. The following pieces add to the conversation and begin to address this gap. They are written in the Critical Studies in Television tradition of short, punchy ‘provocations’ that present a viewpoint or snapshot, able to be produced more flexibly and responsively than a full academic article. The authors were invited to write on any topic related to the BBC in the world, but – coincidentally or not – both articles present an assessment of the operations of BBC News in global contexts, and the way these are perceived by audiences in Nigeria and India. The BBC’s position as a global provider of news is complicated by its history of broadcasting overseas, one that Marie Gillespie, AlbanWebb and Gerd Baumann describe as ‘little known and perhaps even less understood’ (2008: 453). The World Service, established in 1932 and variously named ‘Empire’ and ‘Overseas’ services during its history, now broadcasts radio content in 42 languages worldwide. Part-funded by the UK government, with historical variations in the amount of control or oversight of the state, the service operates as a form of ‘soft power’ and can be viewed as ‘paternalistic’ at best (Sambrook, 2022), propagandistic at worst. The BBC’s global television news provision operates as a commercial outfit rather than directly as a public service, but retains the institution’s PSB-associated brand values of high-quality, impartial news provision. Daya Kishan Thussu notes that despite its aims of promoting British interests, these services
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Pub Date : 2022-08-22DOI: 10.1177/17496020221121451
R. Jaggi, S. Patankar
This provocation gives an overview of the BBC in India in terms of television news. It discusses the BBC's sensibilities in relation to the interests and perceptions of Indian audiences through two methods: one, a review of available secondary literature; and two, brief conversations with media professionals who have previously or currently work with the BBC in India. It briefly comments on the conflicting journey of the BBC in India but argues that despite the colonial legacy and the initial narrative of privileging the imperial voice, the BBC is largely viewed as a fair and impartial news source by Indian audiences.
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