With cases studies used throughout to help illustrate the more general points, this is an analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television. ...The book illustrates how we can fruitfully and systematically analyse the language of television.
This paper examines the intersection of fiction studies and urban studies through the prism of salient points identified in a systematic literature review of French-language research on the subject. ...The dynamics of exchanges between disciplines are thus explored, taking into account the delicate balance between content and form of series when analyzing representations of territories. The attribution of the quality of “character” to these landscapes, often cities, is questioned in favor of the notion of “arena”, which perhaps better reflects the configuring dimension of spaces upon the progression of the narrative. The article concludes by mentioning the opportunities offered by spatial approaches to serial narration; from a situated, partial point of view, it intends to contribute to the debate on the analysis of space in television series.
This book examines major Russian TV series focusing on three major issues: Russian television's transition to digital post-broadcast visual economy, Russian television's integration into global ...television markets and their genre systems, and major shifts in representation of gender and sexuality on television.
The article deals with the research of the speech features of the characters of the Spanish television series and also the analysis of the stylistic means of the development of speaker’s character ...according to his verbal behavior.
The relevance of the study is conditioned by the interest in creating allusions and their functional significance as linguistic units with rich cultural meanings, and their pragmatic impact in characters’ speech.
The aim of the research lies in distinguishing the role of allusions in creating the speech character of a speaker and their significance as a cultural and semantic form of speech.
We used several methods, i.e., continuous sampling, systematization of the language units due to the definite criteria, component analysis, descriptive and cognitively-discursive approach.
The article is based on the language material of the Spanish television series El Pueblo (The Settlement). The object of studying is its characters’ speech; the subject of studying is allusion as a stylistic method and its functions in verbal component of the audio-visual text.
According to the problem of study, the list of words and word-combinations was compounded for being analyzed due to the criteria.
Based on analysis and classification of the content we have got the statistic data. It was identified that 50% of the cases under analysis are allusive proper nouns, that clarifies that allusions reveal the information in compressed form, giving an opportunity for further profound and multiple interpretation.
Upon conducting the research we came to a conclusion that there is a great variety of allusions on the characters and popular facts of the Spanish culture in the series El Pueblo, and their functions are not only aesthetic, expressive and educative, but forming the personality and the sense of each character.
Audiences for contemporary German film and television are
becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German
cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on
Germany's ...problematic past. Entertaining German Culture
explores this radical shift, building on recent research into
transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and
external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of
mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services,
an increasingly international film market, and the import and
export of Anglo-American media formats.
The paper deals with the research of the presence and roles of women in the
creation of series in socialist Yugoslavia during the sixties and seventies
of the 20th century. Besides the primary ...objective of identification, this
study aims to identify specific patterns in work allocation, highlight
significant female contributors, and underscore their contributions to the
development of television series, thereby shedding light on values, cultural
patterns, and societal practices. Also, Cultural Identity Theory was
implemented to provide a valuable framework for understanding how women?s
contributions behind the scenes in Yugoslav television series production
during the 1960s and 1970s are intricately linked to the construction of
cultural identity. Further, the paper analyzes the list of employees
involved in the creation of 17 Yugoslav series created during the 1960s and
1970s. All information about the employees was found on the site IMDB.com.
With the help of a specially constructed code list, they were listed and
classified, and descriptive and comparative statistics of data analysis were
carried out in the SPSS 24.0 program. In the second part of the analysis,
the most significant women in this process were singled out and presented.
The results clearly demonstrate that women held significantly fewer
positions than men, with a distinct division of labor based on gender roles.
Men are more often those who relate to the main positions in making series,
and women to logistics and aesthetics of the characters. Also, the
conclusion of the research is that, in order to be successful, a woman in
that period often had to be supported by a man, but that, when she was
recognized, she played a significant role in many projects, thus
participating in defining the cultural heritage of an entire era.
This article argues the growing interest in investigating how popular historical television series recreates and represents the past by comparing the creative and representational choices of Tom ...Fontana’s Borgia: Faith and Fear (Canal+, 2011-14) with those of Neil Jordan’s The Borgias (Showtime, 2011-13). The comparison aims to show how these historical television series have boosted the public’s interest in the branding of Italy, the Italian Renaissance and, at the same time, managed to create a unique sense of historical engagement. I call this phenomenon ‘historicity,’ that is, something that ‘might have happened’ given the violent milieu of the times. Even though the creators and writers alter and adapt certain facts, they successfully manage to make the viewers ‘travel through time’ and emotionally engage them with the past, allowing them to meet—virtually, of course— the characters and experience events that shaped Italian and European history from 1492-1503. I intend to show how Fontana’s Borgia, in particular, succeeds in de-mythologizing the Renaissance by shattering the mythical depiction of a golden age and focusing, instead, on the prevailing unbridled violence of the times. Fontana’s narrative does not shy away from displaying the most atrocious tortures, disfigurements, feminicides and male rapes. Although some of these scenes are certainly alienating and shocking, and may leave the audience uncomfortable and even appalled, they succeed in reawakening historical consciousness through affective engagement, narrative transportation, and the proximity effect.
Este artículo explora las principales estrategias de publicidad utilizadas por los operadores de servicios de vídeo bajo demanda por suscripción en el mercado audiovisual español. Metodológicamente, ...se ha realizado un seguimiento de los estrenos y las campañas publicitarias de cinco operadores (Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ y Apple TV+) con el objetivo de identificar las principales obras promocionadas en territorio español. El artículo indaga en la relación entre las series de televisión y la publicidad exterior a través de dos casos de estudio: Sky Rojo (Netflix) y Falcon y el soldado de invierno (Disney+). A través del mapeo y el análisis, se descubren distintas acciones de publicidad exterior en tanto ejemplos paradigmáticos de la presencia publicitaria de las plataformas audiovisuales en las ciudades contemporáneas. Los resultados ilustran dos dimensiones clave de la publicidad exterior de los servicios de SVOD: una material, asociada al soporte, tamaño, presencia y visibilidad del texto publicitario; y una simbólica, más asociada al texto publicitario. Asimismo, se advierten conexiones entre lo offline y online, que apuntan hacia la relación entre publicidad exterior, redes sociales y medios, así como a la mercantilización y reconstrucción cotidiana de la ciudad y el espacio público.
This article provides an analysis of representations of sexual minorities in Japanese TV series. It outlines how homosexual and queer desire is depicted and how stereotypes and tropes are used in the ...construction of queer characters in this media format. The article also illuminates the ways in which TV series differentiate between depictions of same-sex romance and opposite-sex romance. The corpus of analysed TV series spans a period of twenty-five years. Thus, the analysis also sheds light on changes in the representation of sexual minorities over time. Examples from recent TV series point to a more positive and sometimes didactic approach towards the topic of homosexuality in Japanese mainstream media.
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