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Gender and the Youthification of German Television:Zeit der Geheimnisse and Generational Change in High-End TV Drama
Full text linkThe production of high-end television drama is booming in Germany. What is noticeable in these dramas are the representational changes as far as women are concerned: female characters are no longer relegated to the status of best friend or love interest but emerge as in charge of their own destiny. Examining these changes in the socio-political and historical context of Germany’s changing gender relations (for which Angela Merkel’s chancellorship was a turning point) as well as changing industrial practices in Germany, the chapter uses the case study of Zeit der Geheimnisse/ Holiday Secrets (Netflix, 2019) to trace how these representational changes have occurred. It argues that a combination of the interest of young adult German viewers in imported US TV dramas, the increasing transnationalisation of the German television industry, and a production context in which high-end television drama is treated as similar to cinema have encouraged and assisted the development of television drama that not only speaks to younger viewers, both within Germany and internationally, but also imagines women in ways that acknowledges the gender perspectives, aspirations, and increased agency felt by young adult German women today
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TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era:Transnational Coproduction and Cultural Specificity
No full textThis edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the wider international exposure that internet distribution has brought to TV shows, this phase for high-end drama is one of unprecedented budgets and costs, frequent transnational coproduction and increased cultural diversification. While this drama continues to be facilitated by national broadcasters, fuelling the above trio of influences upon it has been the commissioning activity of multinational subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) providers. This book showcases leading examples of transnational TV drama, produced outside the US, yet involving collaboration with US-owned SVoDs. It foregrounds some new potentials for drama creation in the context of its strategic importance to providers as different as national broadcasters and multinational SVoDs. This book helps to explain why today’s high-end dramas are demonstrating new elements of cultural specificity despite their common objective to engage a diverse international audience
Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in Media Studies
No full textThe feminist movement, we have been told, is history. This lively book proposes that on the contrary the feminist movement is alive and kicking, still as engaged with the concerns and ways of seeing as it was in the 1960s, '70s and '80s; still demanding its political place. Renewing Feminisms sets out the claim for a feminism that is renewed, reinvigorated and re-imagined. The book offers a timely contribution to current debates about lived and imagined feminism today. The contributors, both longstanding feminists and emerging feminist scholars, take a fresh look at feminist critiques and methodologies, recalling the power of past feminist interventions, as well as presenting a new call for future initiatives in media and cultural studies. They revisit major feminist areas, investigating representational issues, those of agency and narrative, media forms and formats, and the traditional boundaries of the public and the private. What emerges is a real intervention into media and cultural studies in terms of how we understand them today
Separating the Women from the Girls: Reconfigurations of the Feminine in Contemporary British Drama
Full text linkGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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