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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"TV Studies"”.
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
… be imported wholesale to television, reception studies, or modes of cultural studies that use texts to diagnose social phenomena, having texts “stand in” for audiences. Situated within media studies' recent “return to the text,” this approach therefore treats texts as ends in themselves while …
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Byte-sized TV : writing the web series
… series both draw on and deviate from traditional TV storytelling strategies. In this thesis, I compare the production and storytelling strategies of "derivative" web series based on broadcast television shows with "original" web series created for the Internet, focusing on the evolution of …
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
… television, industry, network, and audience studies with thematic analyses to reinforce the impossibility of studying television in our contemporary moment without each of these components. This project straddles the boundaries of several paradigms. Informed by critical branding and …
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Realities of Change: The changing nature of television in the past twenty years
… of each other. The thesis draws on case studies from the period, specifically Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, and American Idol with each series illustrating one of the three key areas of transition. The fourth case study, Survivor, specifically the twenty-third season, is utilised to …
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The effects of co-viewing children’s educational programming on parental communication patterns
… foundation of research on education television. Studies showed many positive effects can be observed when children view appropriate amounts of curriculum-based programs, such as Sesame Street (Gentzkow & Shapiro, 2006), and these effects were amplified when a parent or caregiver co-views the …
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Television, race and national identity : a study of South Africa's lifestyle programme Top billing
… on the lifestyle and lives of its viewers. Studies on the "lifestyle" programme genre, especially in context to contemporary television studies, has not been widely written about. Further, as there is growing interest and a need for ethnographic and audience studies on the impact of …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… together insights from critical disability studies, postcolonial studies, Foucauldian scholarship and Science and Technology Studies, it attends to the variety of ways in which contemporary texts from different contexts have engaged with and reimagined historical modes of configuring …
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
… their inspiration certain male characters from TV sitcoms from the 1950s-1970s. Those characters are: Tony Hancock (Hancock’s Half- Hour, 1956-59, BBC1 UK); Harold Steptoe (Steptoe and Son, 1962-65, BBC1 UK); and the two “Likely Lads”, Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, (Whatever Happened To The …
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Story, in progress: considering new methods for the analysis of ongoing television series
… it still remains an aspect of television studies that receives less critical attention than the analysis of a programme’s content. This thesis hopes to make a contribution to the field by developing flexible and comprehensive analytical tools that will allow scholars to analyse television …
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“Ek sal jou heeltyd dophou.” (I'll be watching you the whole time) Surveillance and the Male Gaze in Films by Black South African Women
In this study I focus on the representation of women in crime films by Black South African women to understand how Black South African women directors represent women onscreen. Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,' on the male gaze in Classical Hollywood cinema serves …
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Situation comedies and the single woman on television
Through an historical overview of the never-married female character in twentieth century situation comedies and an in-depth analysis of three twenty-first century American sitcoms, this dissertation investigates how television creators, writers, producers, and actors have interpreted the figure of …
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Performing the Self: Character Agency and Impression Management within the Narrative of Survivor: Samoa
<p>This study used an in-depth textual analysis of the television show Survivor: Samoa to demonstrate that the unscripted characters of the program and shows like it have agency within the narrative. In addition to the 19th season of the Survivor series, the sample also included Jeff Probst's (host …
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Where is the mind of the media editor? An analysis of editors as intermediaries between technology and the cinematic experience
Where is the mind? A typical response to this fundamental question might be to locate the mind within the brain. However an increasing number of positions within Cognitive Philosophy argue that our mental processes extend beyond the boundaries of the brain. Gallagher & Zahavi(2008) have termed …
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Costuming fictional working-class lives: Jimmy McGovern’s The Street (2006-2009, Granada Productions)
This thesis explores common contemporary understandings and representations of workingclass lived experience, using British television industry practices involved in costuming fictional working-class lives as evidence. It specifically examines the costuming within Jimmy McGovern’s hybrid drama …
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Visualisations and interaction gestures: enhancing the football watching experience via second screen
… and the Internet have changed the habits of TV audiences. As a result, second screen, which can be defined as a form of companion device use to augment TV watching experience, is emerging as a practice. Research shows that a considerable proportion of TV football audiences use second screen …
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Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network
… developed into the first truly global Internet TV network. Many books have been written about the five broadcast networks – NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, and the CW – and many about the major cable networks – HBO, CNN, MTV, Nickelodeon, just to name a few – and this is the fitting time to undertake a …
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NFL Films and the re-production of Pro Football
The choreographed work of NFL Films in their first documentary, They Call It Pro Football (1966), offers a fitting case study in which to examine the construction and promotion of pro football in the 1960s. Using techniques of textual analysis and social/cultural historiography, I investigate the …
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Queerness in der Serie A League of Their Own
Die Anzahl von LGBTQ*-Charakteren in TV-Serien ist in den letzten Jahren angestiegen und die Darstellungen werden in akademischen Auseinandersetzungen sowie in der Populärkultur überwiegend als eine Verbesserung zu früheren stereotypen, eindimensionalen Darstellungen eingeordnet. Andererseits gibt …
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Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire'
<p>In its serial space, David Simon’s <em>The Wire</em> season two relates the seemingly “disconnected” union men, foreign sex worker women, and African-American drug traders and crosses constructed boundaries of race, gender, sexuality, and geography to evoke the possibility of a transnational …
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