Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print ..read more

Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print ..read more

Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print ..read more

Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print. This is a case study of 40 years of policy approaches in Australian children’s television during which the children’s television production ecology was profoundly altered by new distribution technologies. For decades Australia used quotas, subsidies and screen organisation The Australian Children’s Television Foundation to safeguard supplies of children’s television including drama. Digitisation has caused enormous industrial disruption while delivering abundant children’s content on demand. The article calls for new approaches to supporting ..read more

Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print. Despite critical and popular acclaim, the travel/food television series of Anthony Bourdain have not received much academic attention. This paper examines the negotiations required of the series’ production team with regard to industry and ethics, including engagement with multiple forms of ‘quality’ to acquire audience share, which can exist in tension with the ethical requirements of veracity and protecting factual media subjects from harm. Ultimately, this paper shows that, while the series did negotiate both industrial and ethical requirement ..read more

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Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print. The Big Bang Theory, Atypical and Community are sitcoms paradigmatic of a recent representational shift, in which center stage is assumed by individuals who face psychological and neurological challenges. Sheldon Cooper (TBBT), Sam Gardner (Atypical) and Abed Nadir (Community) are young male protagonists who all fall somewhere on the spectrum of autism. These representations signal a breakthrough from past, mainly cinematic depictions, which stereotypically addressed mentally challenged individuals as unstable, problematic, and crazy. Our goal is ..read more

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Critical Studies in Television, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 3-6, March 2023 ..read more

Critical Studies in Television, Ahead of Print. Those endorsing or opposing the development of television aesthetics scholarship have exhibited an admirable willingness to reflect upon the rationales and motivations for formulating value judgements. However, very little equivalent attention has been afforded to processes that occur within this area: how scholars conduct analysis and develop claims for achievement in television. In addressing this lack, the following article surveys some of the meanings that ‘criticism’ has encompassed in Television Studies, offering ‘aesthetic criticism’ as a ..read more