Film and television studies Research Papers

The paper reads Westworld’s plots and characters from three different approaches that are deeply interconnected. First, the consideration of the show as a multi-levelled narrative that unfolds some of the central concepts posed by the... more

The RAI reform (1975) and the liberalization of the broadcasting market (1976) in Italy provoked important changes in television aesthetics and industrial asset. In 1983, Umberto Eco coined the notion of Neo-Television to define an... more

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With the popularity of long-play TV series booming, are films “too short” now to allow the kind of plot and character development that we have become used to? In our changing world of media, does the distinction between “TV series” and... more

Análisis de Fargo: la serie La fragilidad del dominio a través de los personajes femeninos Resumen: En el presente trabajo se analizará la segunda temporada de la serie Fargo en base a algunos de los personajes femeninos más destacables.... more

PERFORM is a highly accessible series for undergraduate and graduate students that professors across disciplines in the arts can use to accompany their primary textbooks. The books are encouraging in tone and detail what it takes to... more

This chapter explores Mad Men from the perspective of the era of candidate and President Trump. Considering a contemporary context in which the prevalence of America's racial and gender inequalities is being revealed and challenged, the... more

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- by Teresa Forde and +1
  Karen McNally
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  American Studies, Media Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Television Studies

FRA: Qu’est-ce que le binge-watching ou Netflix ? Pourquoi existerait-il un doute quant à sa place au sein du XXIème siècle ? À quel siècle, alors, appartient le type d’immersion qu’e cette plateforme et cette pratique médiatique génèrent... more

By focusing on discussions of artistic works that show relationships between three individual communicative media, this volume adopts an innovative, trifocal interdisciplinary perspective: the traditional field of Word and Music Studies... more

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Manufacturing dissent in the name of history, its instrumentalisation for political purposes and bloodshed over its competing versions are the hallmarks of the Hindu Muslim schism prevalent in India. A recurring feature in Indian... more

ABSTRACT ENGL.: Operating as a diagnostics of the present in an essay mode as well as a critical analysis close to media materials, this text investigates programmes of Austrian public television ORF that were broadcast for the 80th... more

ABSTRACT ENGL.: Operating as a diagnostics of the present in an essay mode as well as a critical analysis close to media materials, this text investigates programmes of Austrian public television ORF that were broadcast for the 80th anniversary of Austria´s 'Anschluss', i.e., all-too willingly joining the German Reich (eg, Schluss mit Schuld, 38 daily spots, special editions of information formats). Our critique of the politics of history that informs the mise-en-scène and the logics of discourse is articulated in two contexts: the televisual mediatization of Austria´s (post-)national-socialist history, and the return of national-authoritarian government on the level of federal politics (special emphasis is given to the Freedom Party FPÖ´s take on the Holocaust). More specifically, we aim to show how fascism is shown as being something completely separated from present experience (eg, fascism as the regime of "stiffness" and as an outright mystery); how anti-fascism is shifted from post-war basic consensus to merely one historiographical view next to others (eg, revisionist ones); and how the medium-specific phenomenon of Versprecher – condensing the programmatic promise and the Freudian slip – engenders revealing moments with almost autotherapeutic effects. +++ ABSTRACT GERM.: Gestaltet als essayistische Zeitdiagnose und medienkritische Materialanalyse, widmet sich dieser Text Sendungen des öffentlich-rechtliche Fernsehen ORF von 2018, zum 80. Jahrestag des 'Anschlusses' Österreichs an Deutschland (von Schluss mit Schuld und 38 täglichen Spots bis zu Informationsformaten). Unsere Kritik der Geschichtspolitiken von Inszenierungen und Diskurslogiken steht im Kontext von Fragen zur Fernseh-Vermittlung österreichischer (Post-)Nationalsozialismus-Geschichte in Zeiten der Rückkehr nationalautoritären Regierens (mit Fokus u.a. aufs Verhältnis der FPÖ zum Holocaust). Spezifischer wird dargelegt, wie Faschismus als etwas von Gegenwartsbezügen gänzlich Getrenntes vermittelt wird (als Regime der Steifheit bzw. Mysterium); wie Antifaschismus vom Nachkriegs-Grundkonsens zu einer Geschichtsposition neben anderen (z.B. revisionistischen) gerät; und wie das Medienphänomen des "Versprechers" als "Programm-Ansage" autotherapeutische Offenbarungsmomente zeitigt.

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- by Drehli Robnik and +1
  Renée Winter
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- 20
  Media Studies, Television Studies, Propaganda, Public History

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The New Zealand Wars were defining events in the nation’s history. Filming the Colonial Past, an engaging new book from Annabel Cooper, tells a story of filmmakers’ fascination with these conflicts over the past 90 years. From silent... more

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Since the book does not include a bibliography at the end of the book, and since a few have asked, here is the complete bibliography for New Television.

This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain (1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000. Contributors analyze, from different theoretical... more

Introducción al volumen "Cine y series. La promiscuidad infinita". Reflexión sobre la relación entre el cine y la televisión serial y presentación de los contenidos del libro.

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- by Alberto N. García and +1
  María J. Ortiz
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- 8
  Aesthetics, Television Studies, Narrative, Narrative Theory

Within a scenario of slow economic recovery combined with the worsening of the political crisis, the audiovisual overview in 2017 repeated the contradiction, and it even strengthened, the dynamics verified the previous year. Investments... more

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