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Showing 1 to 20 of 102 for “"television series"”.
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Chinese culture, tourism and a television series: Grand View Gardens, Beijing
… growing phenomenon worldwide. Popular films and television series shooting in a destination can be seen as a very efficient driver for attracting tourists. This thesis was conducted at a Chinese film set, Grand View Garden, Beijing from June 2013 to February 2014. The research site is not only a …
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Making American television series: A study of experts in the production process
… of why and how makers of contemporary American television series obtain knowledge about social and political issues from people who have expert knowledge about these issues. I divide this question into three parts: why do TV makers need experts? Why and how do experts come to Hollywood? And how …
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An empirical investigation into the 'piracy' of television series in South Africa
The end-user 'piracy' of television series, particularly of those produced by USA television networks such as HBO, NBC, ABC and FOX, is a growing trend in South Africa. This paper aims to identify why South Africans want to view television series this way and contribute to the research recognising …
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Representations of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes
… of unmarried women in the Hong Kong reality television series Bride Wannabes (all ten episodes), in which five single women look for a boyfriend under some ‘experts’’ guidance. First, I look at how they are talked about in relation to how they are referred to and the types of actions …
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Story, in progress: considering new methods for the analysis of ongoing television series
The formal analysis of ongoing television series brings with it many challenges. And despite significant contributions to this area of inquiry, 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 …
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Adulting Children: A Television Series On Growing Up, Getting Out, and Coming Right Back
… and author J.D Salinger, Adulting Children is a television series that narrows in on two of these post-grads and the truth behind their so-called insufficiencies. Once estranged, the twenty-somethings now find themselves living as pseudo-siblings in a new familial dynamic as they surrender their …
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An investigation into how Chinese college students make sense of films and TV series from an intercultural perspective: Implications for English language teaching
… (CCSs) make sense of foreign films and TV series from an intercultural perspective, and then explores the theoretical and pedagogical implications of the findings on the use of foreign films and TV series in English language teaching, particularly for developing students’ intercultural …
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Single-Session Design: Design Methodology in Compressed Timeframes Derived from the Robot Rivals Television Series
… design observed repeatedly on the Robot Rivals television series on the Do It Yourself network. The scope of this television series is a competition between two teams of engineering students to design, build, and operate a robot in a single day. The show yields an ideal platform to study the …
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'Conditions of time and space': a re-enactment experiment with the British TV series Doctor Who.
… of 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 …
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Screenplay: Schedule 7
… focused around the design of a South African TV series called 'Schedule 7' which is set in Cape Town's south peninsula in a (fictional) non-governmental, psychiatric clinic. The premise is that a troubled handful of patients' perspectives on life change after they encounter what they believe to …
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WATCHING YOU, WATCHING ME: REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE FANS AND FANDOM IN ACADEMIA, NEWS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
… fan responses to their own representation on the television series Supernatural. I will argue that outsider representations treat fans as a convenient Other, in order to normalize ‘mainstream’ relationships to media texts. This function is gendered, drawing on historical, philosophical and medical …
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We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation
… animation, specifically North American primetime television series, as manifestations of a social need to violate and thereby interrogate aspects of contemporary hetero-normative conformity in terms of identity and representation. A thematic analysis of four animated television series, namely …
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The canons of television: An application of the five canons of classical rhetoric to television program development
This study constructs a methodology of television program development based on the five canons of classical rhetoric. Ronald Primeau (1979) first introduced the canons to the electronic media. His book uses the canons as a guide to television viewing. He argues that by understanding the television …
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"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore": Humor and Trauma in Postcolonial and Black British Texts
… and black British novels, films, and television series. Unlike other studies that focus on satire and how humor is used to establish or diminish power or defuse conflict, this study explores the ways in which authors writing in different genres and media all use humor to prevent …
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PERFECTION, WRETCHED, NORMAL, AND NOWHERE: A REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN TELEVISION SETTINGS
… shaped by more than seven hundred American television series that aired from 1947 to 2007. Each state's relative share of these programs is described. The geographic themes, patterns, and images from these programs are analyzed, with an emphasis on identity in five American regions: the …
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… *The Girl Who Drank the Moon* and the anime television series *Madoka Magi Puella Magica*, examining the construction of girlhood through embodied experience and discourses about age and gender. Chapter 2 turns to non-normative girls’ bodies by considering questions of queerness and …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… as an integral part of his most influential television series. Additionally, the project also endeavors to show how textual self-consciousness can be housed outside of the tradition space of the diegesis in favor of a paratextual element instead. <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> serves here …
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The Role of Disability in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… examined the role of disability in film or television. Engaging in a multiple perspective analysis, this dissertation examined the role of disability in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Data were analyzed with a content analysis, a thematic analysis, and an ideological …
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