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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"television studies"”.
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The subject of television: a methodology of subject-oriented textual analysis
… theory, which cannot 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 …
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Byte-sized TV : writing the web series
… bridging the production practices of broadcast television and Internet video. Shorter than most television episodes and distributed on online platforms like YouTube, web series both draw on and deviate from traditional TV storytelling strategies. In this thesis, I compare the production and …
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Buzz by Bravo: a trendsetting niche network’s place within contemporary television
… contributes to the understanding of what television—as both a concept and an industry—represents in the twenty-first century. This project unpacks Bravo’s network strategies and explores how postfeminist and neoliberal ideologies are presented through the channel’s most successful …
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Realities of Change: The changing nature of television in the past twenty years
… understand the changes that have occurred in the television industry and television spectatorship since the mid-1990s, it is important to look at the transitions which have occurred in three key areas: ‘textual production’, ‘reception and response’, and ‘economics’. Textual production refers to …
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The effects of co-viewing children’s educational programming on parental communication patterns
… the potential impact that children’s educational television programs can have on parents’ communications with their children when they co-view such programming together. The literature review provided a rich foundation of research on education television. Studies showed many positive effects can …
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Television, race and national identity : a study of South Africa's lifestyle programme Top billing
… viewers. In its eighteenth year on South African television, Top Billing has entered the domestic lives of its viewers weekly, and has markedly become one of the country’s longest-running lifestyle and entertainment programmes. This study investigates the various meanings and pleasures that loyal …
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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
… 2003). Disciplines and fields include: comedy studies, performance art studies, television studies, gender studies and cultural studies. The selected sitcom examples were hugely popular and influential in the eras in which they were first broadcast, a period in post-war British history when …
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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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“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
… sitcoms, this dissertation investigates how television creators, writers, producers, and actors have interpreted the figure of the single woman and attempted to make her appealing and acceptable to a broad viewing audience. Because of its traditionally family-friendly offerings and …
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Performing the Self: Character Agency and Impression Management within the Narrative of Survivor: Samoa
… 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 and …
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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)
… 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 series The Street (2006-2009, Granada). Critical analysis of television …
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Visualisations and interaction gestures: enhancing the football watching experience via second screen
Advancements in mobile technologies 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 …
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Netflix and the Development of the Internet Television Network
<p>When Netflix launched in April 1998, Internet video was in its infancy. Eighteen years later, Netflix has 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 …
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NFL Films and the re-production of Pro Football
… in the twentieth century of pro football and television, proffer the view that televisual texts perform cultural and political work and are open to multitudinous readings, apply the theory that gender is socially constructed and performed, and draw upon the concept of “emotional branding.”
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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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