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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Television serial"”.
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Investigating Kuwaiti television serial dramas of Ramadan : social issues and narrative forms across three transformative production eras
… accommodate society’s religious rituals, Kuwaiti television serial dramas are designed to address culturally specific social issues and pervade television during Ramadan. This research identifies the development of Kuwaiti television serials and establishes a framework for distinguishing …
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Teletexts :video literacy, television texture and serial drama
This study looks at television as a text and the way in which it is read, with particular reference to continuous narratives. - Video literacy is defined as the competence possessed by viewers by which they comprehend moving picture media. - Television texture is a term intended to indicate the …
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Family, politics and popular television: an ethnographic study of viewing an Indian serial melodrama
… popularity in India of a contemporary prime time television serial, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Because Mother-in-law was Once a Daughter-in-law) which is now the longest running serial in India. Locating the emergence of this new genre of ‘family serial melodrama’ in light of the …
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A Foreignising or a Domesticating Approach in Translating Dialects? Andrea Camilleri s detective novels in English and The Simpsons in Italian
… episodes of The Simpsons, an animated American television serial that is broadcast in many countries. The cartoon is ideal for this purpose, since it is extremely humorous and its humour is based on elements of the cultural context and on the exploitation of linguistic varieties. The Simpsons …
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Implanting of an Ideology: Television, Politics, and the Making of the Hindu Right in Contemporary India
… epic Ramayan. The study’s central focus is the television adaptation of the Ramayan (TVR) that was broadcast on the state-run national television network in 1987 and 1988. This is seen as a marker event following which there was a right-wing drift towards the ideology of the Hindu Right. I argue …