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Saturday Night Candidates: Comedic Brands on Saturday Night Live During the 2016 Presidential Election
Get PDFNBC’s Saturday Night Live (SNL, 1975-) is an institution for political humor on the American television. The key for many successful impersonations seems to be hiring popular comedians who build heavily on their own identity and stardom, exploiting the bodies of politicians to define and promote their own comedic persona in the public arena. This is especially true for the seasons that led to the 2016 presidential election, as shown by the strategies enacted by impersonators like Kate McKinnon, Alec Baldwin and Larry David, who respectively played the role of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. This essay will take into account the aforementioned caricatures from the 2016 electoral cycle, highlighting the pivotal roles of intertextuality and reflexivity for SNL’s political impersonators. Therefore, sketches and interviews will be considered, especially those that shape the comedians public image and explore their relationship with the candidates and the program’s production cultures and practices
Il «retrobottega di uno show» Per una storia culturale della produzione televisiva in Italia
No full textThe 70th anniversary from the start of television broadcasting in Italy confronts us with how the history of the medium has been told, and how historiography and media studies can interact further. A posture of production studies can be intensified, allowing us to hold together the analysis of texts and contexts, micro and marco dimensions. The proposal of this essay, supported by a review of the available sources and of the literature on the subject, is that of a cultural history of television production: still not widespread in Italy, it can be enhanced thanks to the interaction between the fields of cultural history and that of cultural studies of media industries
Ridimensionare il Paese nel piccolo schermo. La comicità nella storia della televisione italiana
No full textQuesto saggio indaga lo status della comicità nella storia della televisione italiana attraverso una ricognizione dello stato dell’arte e degli strumenti teorici a disposizione, una periodizzazione storica e una proposta di temi con i quali la ricerca si dovrebbe confrontare. Se diversi studi hanno riconosciuto il ruolo centrale della comicità nella storia del medium, le ricerche approfondite sulla materia sono infatti insufficienti. Tuttavia, le prospettive esistenti possono dialogare tra loro se sottoposte allo sguardo della storia: una prima periodizzazione può riconoscere le diverse fasi dello sviluppo stilistico e produttivo della comicità, dalle origini del medium all’era attuale. Da questa periodizzazione emergono alcune costanti, come l’importanza del genere del varietà e del formato dello sketch, la natura autoriflessiva dei programmi comici, e il rapporto con la realtà, in primis con il contesto nazionale, sociale e politico, costantemente ridimensionato dal piccolo schermo.This essay investigates the status of comedy in the history of Italian television through a survey of the state of the art and theoretical tools available, a historical periodization, and a proposal of issues with which the research should be dealing. While several studies have recognized the central role of comedy in the history of the medium, in-depth research on the subject has in fact remained insufficient. However, existing perspectives can dialogue with each other when subjected to the gaze of history: a first periodization can recognize the different stages of the stylistic and productive development of comedy, from the origins of the medium to the present era. Some constant elements emerge from this periodization, such as the importance of the variety genre and the sketch format, the self-reflexive nature of comedy programs, and the relationship with reality, primarily with the national, social, and political context, which is constantly downscaled by the small screen
Testi dell'espansione digitale del volume "La televisione Italiana" di L. Barra, P. Brembilla e V. Innocenti
No full textApparato digitale ospitato dalla piattaforma MyLab che include espansione testuale, esercizi di autovalutazione, raccolta di risorse audiovisive con relative didascalie e linea del tempo a supporto del volume di Luca Barra, Paola Brembilla e Veronica Innocenti, "La televisione italiana. Storie, generi e linguaggi", Milano, Pearson, 2024
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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