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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"TV drama"”.
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The Messenger: a One Hour Television Drama
THE MESSENGER: A ONE HOUR TELEVISION DRAMA is a plan for a science fiction television series. The thesis includes (1) a critical essay on where the series would fit in today's science fiction, (2) a series bible that lays out the show's themes, characters, and provides episode summaries, and (3) a …
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Trip down memory lane : revisiting red classics as television drama in post - Mao China
… socialist citizens has been transformed into TV dramas appealing to an increasingly sophisticated, demanding audience. The study situates the transformation of the genre within the context of China’s transition from a Maoist socialist society to a neoliberal one. The TV adaptation of the Red …
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Dis/locating audience : transnational media flows and the online circulation of East Asian television drama
… circulation has been one of the most dramatic development in the media landscape, creating what Appadurai has dubbed global "mediascapes" that are reshaping the way we understand cultural formation. While the rise of massive global commercial media enterprises leads to renewed …
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The influence of documentary methods upon BBC television drama, with particular emphasis upon the years 1946-1962
… and their practice upon BBC Television Drama between the years 1946-1962 with particular reference to the Dramatised-Documentary and its successor the Documentary-Drama.The first of these, the Dramatised-Documentary was an original form of television writing and production pioneered in …
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From Text to Screen The Role of Feminism in Adapting Female-Oriented Internet Literature to Chinese Television Drama
… internet literature into Chinese television dramas from 2011 to 2021, with a particular focus on how feminist ideologies are negotiated and represented across the adaptation process. It explores four interconnected dimensions: the feminist perspectives embedded in adapted narratives and …
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DEVELOPMENT OR DEPENDENCY? THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA
… THE EMERGING CHINESE CULTURAL-LINGUISTIC TV MARKET AND IDOL TV DRAMA IN TAIWAN AND CHINA MAJOR PROFESSOR: John Downing and Jyotsna Kapur The global expansion of neo-liberalism and the new development of media technology have opened up national TV markets worldwide and the changing …
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Mere Mortals
… </em>is a one-hour pilot script for a television drama series centered on the daily operations of Trinity Recovery and Rehabilitation Center and the lives of the mental health professionals who specialize in the treatment of high profile individuals.</p>
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Investing a Studio with Meaning: The Construction of Fictional Space in British Television Drama and the Police Series of 1955-82
British television drama shot in the studio using videotape technology has traditionally been considered to have its own distinctive aesthetic throughout academic studies. The purpose of this study is to test this hypothesis and to explore how representational aesthetics developed for the British …
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'Conditions of time and space': a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who.
… the historical conditions of British television drama production; in particular the constraining and liberating influences of production space on the role of the director, and their decision-making process to bring script to screen. Secondly, the work develops the concept of re-enactment as a …
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… British Caribbean Family in British Television Drama, particularly the absence of the One African Family framework and the overall invisibility of the Black presence in British History. This thesis further addresses specific economic, historical, and social factors that mainstream television …
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Political history TV dramas and the representation of Confucian China : the regulation, emergence and politics of a new genre
… and Chinese approaches to analysis of China’s TV media, this thesis sets out to propose an alternative methodological framework for investigation of the emergence, development and significance of a distinctive television genre categorised as ‘political history TV drama’ (PHTD), produced in …
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Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media
… regulation of television programming, television drama, and film. The regulative actions vary from public notices to official prohibition of the media text. Following the Foucauldian tradition of studying media regulation, and borrowing from feminist, queer and class studies, this dissertation …
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One character, one bullet : an investigation of the death of character in contemporary South African television drama and the multiplicity of social self as possible means of character revival
Television drama demands a strong sense of story to sustain a viewer’s engagement, and fictional characters are key dramatic vehicles in story construction, yet it remains an area that is severely neglected in terms of both theory and practice at this time in South Africa. I have discovered that …
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Working on my hair: a visual analysis of natural hair and Black women professionals in popular television programming
… in professional settings on seven television drama texts. Black features are subjected to Eurocentering—the reduction of racial heritage markers to align with Eurocentric values—to protect hegemonic traditions under the guise of racial neoliberalism. This study focuses on hairstyles for Black …
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Comfort factors, moral fantasy and social criticism in formulaic fiction : a study of literary formulas with particular reference to the 'hard-boiled' detective story
… effectively into popular film and television drama. Its founding fathers are normally deemed to be Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. A study of their works should provide a valuable insight into the structure of their patterns and how they are made to work to the public's …
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Popular fiction television production in Nigeria: global models, local responses
… in the location production of a television drama series, semi-structured and unstructured interviews with 15 people in Nigeria’s television industry, the thesis argues that despite some production practices in the industry not yet being, according to the practitioners, up to scratch, …
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An Analysis of Theatre in Zambia
… have created new traditional dances and dance-dramas. The second chapter deals with the establishment of the European theatre movement, little theatres and playhouses in the urban area and the formation of the Northern Rhodesia Drama Association. It also deals with the activities of the first …
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An Analysis of Theatre in Zambia
… have created new traditional dances and dance-dramas. The second chapter deals with the establishment of the European theatre movement, little theatres and playhouses in the urban area and the formation of the Northern Rhodesia Drama Association. It also deals with the activities of the first …
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Politics, Feminism, and Popular Television: Madam Secretary as a Politician, Wife, and Mother
<p>A recent surge in political dramas on television has produced an opportunity for media scholars interested in gender, politics, and entertainment media. To date, most research involving the study of fictional politics has revolved around male characters, leaving a gap in the study of female …
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The Korean Internet Freak Community and Its Cultural Politics, 2002–2011
… a collective project making a review book of a TV drama Painter of the Wind. The youth of South Korea emerge as the backbone of these creative endeavors as they try to find their place in a precarious labor market that has changed so rapidly since the 1990s that only the very best succeed, …
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