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Browsing History: Archiving Video Game Context
Get PDFThis research paper is about the collection of contextual materials for video games at The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The focus is on the context of reception that can be found online, such as webreviews, Let’s Plays and other web videos. Games and their interactive and processual nature make them difficult to archive and present as cultural objects. Collecting context can help with both preserving and presenting. It can be collected for the documentation as a (secondary) preservation method. Context is also necessary to describe the game as they cannot be played by the user groups of Sound and Vision yet. There is no detailed workflow or guideline on how to contextualize games and archive the contextual materials in relation to the games. Therefore, a new workflow is proposed to archive the context of reception next to the games
Canned Television Going Global - The Transnational Circulation of Ready-Made Content in Television
No full textThis special issue of VIEW focuses on the international circulation and distribution of ready-made content, in the form of scripted products. The following essays share an interest in considering the nuances in power dynamics (adaptation, localization, revision) that are bound to any transnational movements. They also address a fruitful variety of problems and points of view that signal the wider potential of this field of research: the transnational circulation of TV content and the currently used market strategies; common ground and cultural proximity in certain cultural groups and/or regions; the role of European countries and markets in the development of international distributed content, and their impact beyond the continent; the emerging role of OTT services in the internationalization of programming; the growing role played by curation and personalization in order to gain a competitive edge; the functions of “niche” content (such as arts programming) and or particular audience groups (such as the LGBTQIA+ community and its allies), and how these adapt to border-crossings; co-productions, but also co-distributions between different countries (such as China and the UK); processes of localizing and adapting foreign ready-made content, for example through dubbing, subtitling and voice overs; and the role of bottom-up circulation
A Vicious Viewership: Transatlantic Television Audiences and LGBTQ Identities
No full textThis paper uses the series Vicious (2013–2016), which aired on the British network ITV and the American noncommercial network PBS, as a case study in transatlantic reception for LGBTQ content. I draw on critical reception for the series, the star personae of lead actors Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen, and studies of American perceptions of British masculinities. The varied reception for the series, understood through the networks’ economic models and cultural constructions of masculinities, reveals how notions of “quality” and “social progress” change as canned television travels to different national contexts
Why so Successful? An Audience Research on the Turkish TV Series in Greece
No full textThe circulation of Turkish fictional television programs among different countries worldwide has been increased crossing over to wider audiences of different cultural regions. The last years there has been a rising production of Turkish series dealing with the foundation and the history of Ottoman Empire, militaristic series as well as drama series that go parallel to the country’s trade expansion in the region, foreign policies, Neo-Ottoman ideology and recent political events . This study deals with specific set of practices found in Turkish drama series that enable them to be cross-culturally consumed with the example of their success in Greece. The audience research presented in this paper indicates cultural proximity as a succorer for this consumption
On the effects of using speech transcripts and subtitles to detect topic shifts in news broadcasts
Get PDFIn this research, topic segmentation in texts (a.k.a. text segmentation) is used as a proxy for
topic segmentation in videos. The main application is automatically providing a topic transition
structure for videos, because it is difficult to quickly scan them and figure out where a new
subject starts. Topic models are used to figure out the topic transition positions. The available
data for this research is provided by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and consists
of 25,600 transcripts and subtitles of the same Dutch news broadcasts.
The research questions whether it is better to use automatic speech recognition transcripts or
subtitles when segmenting a video based on topics.The subtitles and speech transcripts were
compared for the same news broadcasts and both qualitative and quantitative differences
between them were found. However, no significant difference was found between the
performance of the text segmentation algorithm using subtitles and speech transcripts. The
research presents the challenges and benefits of the developed text segmentation algorithm.
The research can give insight into the realizability of the application of text segmentation to help
structure videos, which can become a starting point for future research.</p
Bad Vibes: Images of Communication, Emotional Balance and Health in East German Television, 1970s-1980s
No full textAnalysing health education films from the German Democratic Republic broadcast on TV during the 1970s and 1980s, this paper explores how emotions were framed as health risks and how this framing corresponded with socialist ideas on communication and media theory. I argue that television offered an ideal medium for updating traditions of social hygiene and that it served as a means to the socialist concept of “emotional education”. Television and public health met in highlighting socialist ideas on social interaction: health education aimed at cultivating trust to reduce organic diseases. At the same time, creating trust and intimacy was one of the main promises of the new medium, a function bolstered by its location in the home. To achieve these, they turned to the emotional effects of the spoken word
A Daughter of the Gods (1916): Film, Tourism and Empire on Location in Jamaica
No full textThis article examines the location production of the early Hollywood blockbuster movie A Daughter of the Gods (1916) in British colonial Jamaica on the basis of historical newspapers and magazines, and demonstrates the close ties between film, tourism and empire on the island in the early twentieth century, both materially and ideologically. In so doing, the article reflects a twofold comparative perspective: between different histories and between different countries. Despite the rise of postcolonial cinema historiography, the early cinema histories of the Caribbean have remained largely unexposed. More specifically, Jamaica’s early film history has, notwithstanding some notable exceptions, hardly been dealt with, particularly in relation to the island’s tourism and colonial histories. At the same time, the early relationship between Hollywood and the British Caribbean has not often been explored. All in all, this article seeks to contribute to the discussion of the interconnectedness between cinema, tourism and empire, and between Hollywood, the British Empire and Jamaica, by revealing the colonialist cine-tourist practices and discourses of A Daughter of the Gods, one of the most important American moving pictures of the silent era, and one of the most significant global imperial tourist films of the early twentieth century
The Cinematic Cowboy in Africa: Identities and the Western Genre
No full textThis article identifies instances in Africa in which the western genre and specifically the figure of the cowboy is appropriated and adapted to local circumstances. It opens with a brief excursion into the western’s influence on African cinema, focusing primarily on Bamako (2016). The article develops a brief discussion of the potentials and pitfalls of comparative research in relation to Africa and proposes that focusing on a specific genre such as the western, is a useful additional element in adopting modes of comparative research. The article focuses on examples drawn from different parts of the continent including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Southern Africa. Finally, it draws conclusions on the potential of future research focusing on the cinematic cowboy and his appropriation into the lives of African audiences
Emulation as a Service for Heritage Institutions
Get PDFThis report explores the concept of emulation in an archival context by examining what exactly the term means, providing an overview of a current framework for its implementation, and offering some suggestions for institutions or individuals that are looking to get started on this topic
From Parenthood to Tutto può succedere: Ready-Made Elements and Cultural Translation
No full textIn our article we propose an analysis of the Italian TV series Tutto può succedere, a remake of the American TV series Parenthood (NBC 2010-2015). The Italian remake precisely reproduces some Parenthood’s ready-made elements: the two series share the main plot, many storylines and characters’ personalities, dealing with the ups and downs of a large family, formed of four siblings, their parents and their children. We will focus on the differences and similarities of the two shows from several perspectives, such as formal and content divergences, and their cultural, social and production implications. On the one hand, the Italian remake loses the distinguishing style and the faster pace of the original series to adjust to Rai’s more basic aesthetics; on the other hand, Rai chooses to focus on specific plots and characters that match its own purposes. Indeed, we can assume that youngest characters are the means by which Raiuno tries to connect with younger viewers, and the same function is assumed by the role played by music in the series and by the on-screen presence of young Italian musicians