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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"US television"”.
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Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
… study will explore the rise of horror drama on US television, investigating the significance of this trend of horror programming to both the US television industry and the understanding and acceptability of the horror genre as a whole. The first section will account for this increase in horror …
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‘Nothing but the Truth’: Genre, Gender and Knowledge in the US Television Crime Drama 2005-2010
… the most produced genres on American prime-time television and also one of the most routinely ignored academically. This particular cyclical genre influx was notable for the resurgence and reformulating of the amateur sleuth; this time remerging as the gifted police consultant, a figure capable …
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Can buzz on Twitter predict TV ratings and viewers? : a study of US TV shows premiering in fall 2013
Watching television has always been a social activity. People like to sit down with friends and family to watch it and then discuss it not only with one's friends and family but at work (water cooler conversations). Just as television has moved ahead with advances in technology, so too has our …
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The development of high definition television : an ecology of games
… that shaped the overall character of a new US television system, high definition or HDTV, between the early 1980s and 2010, with a primary focus on the period leading up the Federal Communications Commission decision on the new standard in 1996. The study tries to answer the question: how …
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Transgender representations in television: a provisional study of trans people watching trans people on TV
… participants two recent programs broadcast in US television that feature trans characters and content. The participants offered transcentric feedback to media examples that highlighted the unique perspectives of trans people and provided insight into how media narratives affect their …
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“Is this Bizarro World?” : The adaptation of characterisation and intertextuality in German audiovisual translation
… analyses of audiovisual translation of genre television (e.g. Bosseaux 2015, Knox and Adamou 2011), my thesis undertakes analyses of interactions between recurring characters in the sixth season of the US television programme, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The first major contribution of this …
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Envisaging Community in Twenty-First Century US Film and Television: Neoliberalism, Relationality, Ecologies
… and ecologies in twenty-first century US film and television. Specifically, I examine the work of three American filmmakers — Kenneth Lonergan, Mike White, and Paul Schrader — whose works, I suggest, can be characterised as narratives of responsibility in their foregrounding of moral …