Group Identities on French and British Television
Group Identities on French and British Television

Author: Michael Scriven

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003-03-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1800735081

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Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can reach an international audience. The reaction from cultural critics has been mixed. As the debate concerning the effects of new telecommunications and audiovisual technology continues unabated, this book examines the underlying hypothesis that collective allegiances are moving away from the national paradigm towards the global/local model and provides a balanced appraisal of the depiction of a select number of group identities on television in Britain and France.

Group Identities on French and British Television
Group Identities on French and British Television

Author: Michael Scriven

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781571817938

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Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of popular television. Thanks to cable, satellite and now digital technology, television broadcasts can reach an international audience. The reaction from cultural critics has been mixed. As the debate concerning the effects of new telecommunications and audiovisual technology continues unabated, this book examines the underlying hypothesis that collective allegiances are moving away from the national paradigm towards the global/local model and provides a balanced appraisal of the depiction of a select number of group identities on television in Britain and France.

Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain
Television Broadcasting in Contemporary France and Britain

Author: Michael Scriven

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9781571819468

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This is the first study devoted to the highly significant roles played by France and Britain in the formulation of European audiovisual policy, providing a truly comparative analysis of the contemporary audiovisual scene in the two countries.

A sense of place
A sense of place

Author: Lez Cooke

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1526129825

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This pioneering study examines regional British television drama from its beginnings on the BBC and ITV in the 1950s to the arrival of Channel Four in 1982. It discusses the ways in which regionalism, regional culture and regional identity have been defined, outlines the history of regional broadcasting in the UK, and includes two detailed case studies – of Granada Television and BBC English Regions Drama – representing contrasting examples of regional television drama during what is often described as the ‘golden age’ of British television. The conclusion brings the study up to date by discussing recent developments in regional drama production, and by considering future possibilities. Written in a scholarly but accessible style, the book uncovers a forgotten history of British television drama that will be of interest to lecturers and students of media and cultural studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in the history of British television.

British TV Comedies
British TV Comedies

Author: Juergen Kamm

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-26

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1137552956

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This collection offers an overview of British TV comedies, ranging from the beginnings of sitcoms in the 1950s to the current boom of 'Britcoms'. It provides in-depth analyses of major comedies, systematically addressing their generic properties, filmic history, humour politics and cultural impact.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture

Author: Nicholas Hewitt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-11

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780521794657

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France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a period of unprecedented growth and social transformation. Throughout the century and into the new millennium France retained its former international reputation as a centre for cultural excellence and innovation and its culture, together with that of the Francophone world, reflected the increased richness and diversity of the period. This 2003 Companion explores this vibrant culture, and includes chapters on history, language, literature, thought, theatre, architecture, visual culture, film and music, and discuss the contributions of popular culture, Francophone culture, minorities and women.

Historical Dictionary of France
Historical Dictionary of France

Author: Gino Raymond

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2008-10-23

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0810862565

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From the construction of Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower to the Fall of the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen to NapolZon Bonaparte's defeat at Waterloo to Albert Camus' L'Etranger and the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, France has been a part of some of the greatest and most memorable events in human history. Author Gino Raymond relates the history of these events in the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of France. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on kings, politicians, authors, architects, composers, artists, and philosophers, a thorough history of France is presented.

Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader
Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader

Author: Brunsdon, Charlotte

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0335225454

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Covers the area of feminist media criticism. This edition discusses subjects including, alternative family structures, de-westernizing media studies, industry practices, "Sex and the City", Oprah, and "Buffy."

Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics

Author: Lisa Lau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1136707921

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This volume explores various new forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustain this renovated form of Orientalism in South Asian culture. The contributors identify and engage with pressing recent debates about postcolonial South Asian identity politics, discussing a range of different texts and films such as The White Tiger, Bride & Prejudice and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love.

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Author: Lindsey A. Freeman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-02-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 178238281X

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In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.