Medievidenskab: TV og samfund

"How the rise of streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video has changed television and film storytelling in countries around the globe"--

The American cultural imaginary is hungry for death, and thus representations of death are prominently repeated and serialized in US literature and media. Stella Castelli shows how American culture fetishizes death as part of a repetition compulsion which stems from the inability of language to satisfactorily grasp death. Taking an intermedial approach, she investigates the forms and tropes born from this preoccupation with death and conceptualizes its imagination alongside an appetite which manifests as repetitive encoding. These metaphors of food consumption provide a hermeneutic framing for analyzing representations of death across American literature and media.

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.

This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations.

This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories.

This book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.

This book breaks new ground by exploring music and sound within the Star Trek franchise across decades and media, offering the first sustained look at the role of music in shaping this influential series.

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes.

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of Tubingen (Institut für Medienwissenschaft), course: Global Media Theory, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses, on the one hand, the South Korean (hereafter Korea) OTT (over the top) video market and the struggles of foreign SVOD (subscription video on demand) services in Korea. On the other hand, it looks at the distribution of Korean media content in a global context through digital platforms. The primary example chosen is Netflix.First, I will briefly review the selected literature, then list the rationale and thesis before explaining why a political economy approach is used, and what theoretical framework is applied in the analysis. In the main section, the objects of analysis are the highly competitive Korean OTT market, and the role of Netflix in the distribution of Korean content outside of Korea. Finally, in the conclusion, I will reiterate the rationale, and state how I have argued the thesis statement. Additionally, the main findings will be summarized, and the usefulness of the selected theoretical framework evaluated.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1, University of Salzburg, language: English, abstract: This thesis will deal with the term New Queer Cinema, its history, and how the "new wave" is different, as well as discussing where "queerness" occurs in non-queer television shows. Furthermore, it will analyze New Wave Queer Cinema in the examples of "Weekend" and "Looking" with a look on film aesthetics and the issues that arise in their plots. Moreover, an analysis on the coming out stories of some of the characters in both Weekend and Looking will help to display the significance in bringing issues to the viewer in the form of New Wave Queer Cinema. Covering articles by scholars, critics and writers like B. Ruby Rich, James Morrison, Monica B. Pearl, and Helen Hok-Sze Leung, among others, a light will be shed on New Queer Cinema as well as New Wave Queer Cinema.New Wave Queer Cinema, as the name already suggests, derives from New Queer Cinema; a movement prevalent in the very late 1980s and the 1990s. What it tries to do is to portray its characters not in a comical light, like the gap between the two movements seems to suggest, but in an authentic and realistic light. What makes Looking furthermore special is that it is one of its kind. There are no other television shows that have featured gay main characters in a realistic setting before. There might be "Queer as Folk" (2000-2005) or "Will & Grace" (1998-2006), but neither can be described as New Wave Queer Cinema. However, still not being the norm in media or beyond, New Wave Queer Cinema tries to overlook that specific detail and tries to handle the stories it tells in a way that does not solely highlight the "queerness", but tries to be about the people it talks about. But where there is "queer", it is easy for a general audience to dismiss it. It seems that it will take much more time for people to realize that queer films, literature, and even lifestyle are nothing to frown upon and that they are here to stay.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 1,3, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Even though self-praise poses a socially problematic speech act, it appears that self-praise is used in sitcoms quite often for comic effects. This term paper deals with the question which strategies the fictional character Sheldon Cooper in the US American sitcom The Big Bang Theory applies when performing self-praise. On that account, the paper will follow the lead of Daria Dayter in her article ¿Self-Praise in microblogging¿. The strategies for self-praise found by Dayter will present the framework for this specific study. Therefore, this paper will not deal with structural characteristics of those utterance but only with the strategies applied. As self-praise seems to be used for comic effects in the sitcom, I assume that the results conducted in this paper will not contain many mitigation devices when self-praise is being performed. Furthermore, it seems that the article by Dayter is the only specific study on self-praise so far. Hence, the study of self-praise poses a quite unsought area and thus provides the possibility for an individual study that will not have to rely on previous studies with a similar content. As this paper deals with self-praise in the US American sitcom, it poses an interesting crossover between the fields of film language and self-praise studies. As the study of self-praise increasingly gained attention among researchers since self-portrayal via social media websites like Twitter became possible and almost socially acceptable, spreading the issue to a scripted context constitutes a completely unexplored area of research. In this paper, I will first give a brief overview of Dayter's study on the topic in my literature review section. I will also take into account some important studies on compliment responses, as Dayter extracted her strategies for self-praise from those. Then there will be an elaboration on the methodology applied to this paper, followed by a more detailed outline of the strategies and the data that will be investigated in this work. Afterwards the results will be presented and ultimately a critical discussion of the findings. In the end a conclusion will be provided to give an overview for further possible fields of research and to offer a precise summary of the results.

Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Flensburg, course: Selected Areas of English Linguistics for TEFL Teachers, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will analyze the animated sitcom Family Guy in terms of three linguistic features and how they relate to creating humor. The sitcom is an example of (scripted) authentic English language. The paper is divided into five sections. After this introduction, I will provide relevant theoretical background knowledge. I will start by reminding the reader of the concept of pragmatics and then introduce three pragmatic theories. First, I will present Speech Act Theory with its differentiation of the locutionary act, the illocutionary act and perlocutionary act as well as the differentiation between direct and indirect speech acts. Second, I will depict the Cooperative Principle with its four maxims (quantity, quality, relation and manner), the four types of non-observance of these maxims (flouting, violating, opting out and infringing) and the notion of implicature. Third, I will introduce the concept of politeness including positive and negative face and the idea of face-threatening acts that need to be compensated by politeness strategies. In section three, I will present Family Guy and its characters and state why using a sitcom is beneficial for my analysis. In section four, I will present and analyze eleven excerpts from various episodes in terms of the creation of humor based on pragmatic features. I will end this paper with a conclusion, in which I will present thirteen ¿humor formulas¿ that I was able to deduce from the analysis.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Politik - Grundlagen und Allgemeines, Note: 1,0, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Medienglobalisierung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage, ob und wie Medien wirken, ist gerade für die politikwissenschaftliche Medienforschung von besonderer Relevanz. Ihre Rolle in der Demokratie wird als zentral angesehen, damit wohnt ihr aber natürlich auch ein entsprechender Einfluss inne. Ein Versuch, diese Fragen zu beantworten stellt das Konzept des ¿CNN-Effekts¿ dar. Das Konzept geht von der Hypothese aus, dass die spezifischen Eigenschaften der CNN-Berichterstattung, namentlich die Übertragung emotional stark wirkender Fernsehbilder und Kommentare in Echtzeit von jedem Krisenherd des Globus aus, Einfluss auf die (US-amerikanische) Außenpolitik ausüben würden. Die Annahme, Präsentationsweise und Präsentation von Hungerkrisen, Bürgerkriegen o.ä. könnte entweder direkt oder über den Umweg der öffentlichen Meinung des TV-Publikums Politikentscheidungen beeinflussen, unterstellt eine starke Medienwirkung. Gleichzeitig verzichtet die CNN-Effekt-Forschung weitgehend darauf, diese Beziehungen zwischen Medium und Rezipienten zu thematisieren oder gar zu theoretisieren. Generell kann bei der CNN-Hypothese nicht von einer Theorie im eigentlichen Sinne gesprochen werden, da sie über einen kleinen gemeinsamen definitorischen Nenner hinaus nicht ausformuliert wurde. Die unterstellten Schwächen der Hypothese hinsichtlich ihrer Wirkungsannahmen lassen sich durch einen Rückgriff auf etablierte Medien- bzw. Publizistikwissenschaftliche Theoriekonzepte herausarbeiten und - in Teilen - verbessern. Insbesondere die Konzepte des Framing und des Agenda-Setting sind Wirkungskonzepte, die einen schlüssigen Zusammenhang zwischen öffentlicher Meinung und Medieninhalten herstellen können. In einem ersten Schritt werden daher in dieser Arbeit die Annahmen über die Medienwirkung des CNN-Effekt diskutiert. Auf dieser Basis soll eine Definition des Effektes erfolgen. In einem zweiten Schritt sind die Wirkungskonzeptionen zu erörtern, die hierzu als Maßstab, Ergänzung und Kontrastfolie dienen sollen: Public-Agenda-Setting als Einfluss auf die Prioritäten der öffentlichen Meinung und seine Resonanz bei politischen Entscheidungsträgern; Policy-Agenda-Setting als direkter Einfluss der Medien auf die Relevanz von Politikinhalten; und Framing als Einfluss auf die Interpretation eines Themenkomplexes. In einem dritten Schritt gilt es zu fragen, wie die Medienwirkungskonzeption der CNN-Effekt-Theoreme im Vergleich zu den Modellen der Medienwirkung zu bewerten, zu ergänzen und zu korrigieren ist.

This book explores the concept that, as participation in traditional religion declines, the complex and fantastical worlds of speculative television have become the place where theological questions and issues are negotiated, understood, and formed.

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,30, University of Passau (Professur für Anglistik/Cultural and Media Studies), course: Remakes, language: English, abstract: ¿To linken human beings to beasts is to stress the animal within the man¿ (Jordan qtd. in Greene 50).This statement gets to the heart of the discussion about the relationship between apes and human beings in Pierre Boulle¿s French novel La Planète des Singes/Planet of the Apes , its first U.S.-American cinematic adaptation by director Franklin J. Schaffner and the homonymous U.S.-remake of 2001. Despite the texts¿ vast variety of discourses, of which most have been discussed extensively in the academic field, it is the aim of the present paper to focus solely on the question of how the relationship between the ape and human species is presented in PotA (1963), PotA (1968) and PotA (2001) with regard to the construction and challenging of limitations. The aim is to demonstrate that, despite the persistence of interspecies boundaries, the texts clearly progress in bringing the species closer together.In recent years, the rising awareness of human beings¿ close kinship to other primates as well as the ongoing extinction of species2 have made it more relevant than ever before to study and, thus, preserve biodiversity of apes. The three texts mentioned above contribute to an understanding of the development of human-ape kinship over the past decades by illustrating ¿the human in the animal and the animal in the human¿ (Balaschak 20) in unique ways.The paper¿s approach is to, firstly, embed the texts in their historical and cultural environment by considering the impact of primatology and contemporary socio-political conflicts on the representation of the ape-human relationship. Then, attention is given tomeans of separating the species through the construction of intra- and interspecies hierarchies and the use of language to justify speciesism in the novel, its adaptation and the remake. This exploration is followed by an analysis of how these boundaries are challenged by taking a closer look at the respective interspecies relationships between the male human protagonist and the female chimpanzee lead. Ultimately, the paper closes with a summary of the resultsand, additionally, gives a brief outlook into the possible future direction of the ape-human evolution and impulses for further research.

Academic Paper from the year 2018 in the subject Psychology - Media Psychology, , language: English, abstract: The main purpose of this mixed method study; in titled Satisfaction and Status: Exploring Satellite Television Program in Ethiopia Five Secondary Schools; is to explore the satisfaction of Students, Teachers and Principals on satellite TV educational program and also look the status, perception as well as factors affecting satellite program teaching learning process and find solutions with CIPP (Content, Input, Process, and Product) evaluation scale and open questions. participants in Northern Ethiopia particularly from Debark, Dabat, Wogera and Denbiya woredas are enrolled in this study.This research is in significance of utilization of ICT media technology can be a learning paradigm in the secondary level schools to enhance the students¿ knowledge and skills as well. The study is assumed relevance to improve the system of educational satellite TV broadcasting implementation in providing the feedbacks for the strengths and weakness of the program to the relevant stakeholders so that they can take measures to alleviate the identified challenges.The findings may create conducive environment for the teaching and learning process by satellite plasma television. The study will offer invaluable information to the school¿s administration as well as to policy makers in education as to the nature of the contribution of ICT to the teaching-learning process. This goal can be achieved through the proper utilization of ICT media technology that can enhance the motivation and achievement of the students. In addition to these the study may be basis for another researcher to conduct similar study.