A group to bring together scholarship and researchers that work with the multifaceted field that is Television Studies – from politics to industries, from fan-based research to Cultural Media Studies approaches to particular shows and/or the histories of and in Television – you name it 🙂
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Derek Johnston deposited Adaptation and Mode in the Television Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 1 day ago
This paper presents some of the ideas central to my current developing research into the modes of historical television drama, particularly the Gothic mode. In focusing on the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, the paper illustrates the idea of the Gothic mode in operation, considering its relationship to notions of historical…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Confronting the Legacy of Historical Trauma through Gothic Historical Television Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months ago
This paper examines the use of the Gothic mode in historical television drama to suggest it is used to emphasise engagement with historical traumas, and suggest that these traumas still have relevance today. This emphasis works by engaging with the associations that are acquired around the Gothic mode through experience, recognising the aesthetic…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months ago
CfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Historical Power, Historical Trauma and the Gothic Historical Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper proposes that there are a number of historical television dramas which make use of the aesthetics of the Gothic in order to signal their focus on historical traumas which still have contemporary resonance. This is part of a wider use of a Gothic mode in these dramas in presenting and considering these traumas, not just as the individual…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Bringing Imperial Trauma Home: Taboo as Gothic Historical Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Television historical dramas take on a number of different modes, which inflect how they are interpreted. The Gothic mode, signalled in part by aesthetics and a focus on trauma, encourages audiences to engage with the past as a place of horror and darkness. Through intentional anachronism and the presentation of contemporary parallels, these…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Historical TV Dramas and Mode: A Case of the Gothic in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Guest lecture at the University of Warsaw From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Reading Group, 11 May 2023.
Historical dramas can be presented in many different ways in film and television, with the mode in which the genre of historical drama is presented influencing how that drama is understood. Thus, the same events portrayed in a comic mode will…[Read more] -
Martin Boehnert deposited Nicht-triviale Trivialitäten in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
On the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Gothicisation of British TV Historical Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
This paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Gothicising Picnic at Hanging Rock in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 1 week ago
This paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Winter and the Gothic Historical Television Drama in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Keynote paper.
This paper examines the connections between the winter season and Gothic historical television dramas. It defines Gothic historical television dramas as dramas with a historical setting that take on a Gothic aesthetic and emphasise themes of trauma which are active in the past and continue to be active in the present. It also…[Read more] -
Camille Alexander started the topic CFP: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials in the discussion
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Black Witches & Queer Ghosts: Disrupting Norms in Supernatural Teen Serials
While fascination with the supernatural has an extensive history, combining teen subjects and audiences with supernatural topics is a fairly contemporary form of entertainment. Serials like Teen Wolf, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and the Vampire Diaries center…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Reading Past Reception: A Case Study of the BBC Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
This paper draws on the letters and messages and newspaper clipping held by the BBC Written Archives Centre in relation to the 1954 adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a case study for considering how we understand the historical reception of programming. This production is particularly useful in this regard because it achieved a certain…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Folk of Folk Horror in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months ago
‘Folk horror’ has often been considered, following Mark Gatiss’ description of the genre, as centrally focused on a particular ‘obsession with the British landscape, its folklore, and superstitions’. While these elements are clearly significant, they become more problematic when opening up the genre to include texts from beyond Britain. Not only…[Read more]
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Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Branding Unity: Impact of Advertisements on Patriotism, Unity and Communal Harmony in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Patriotism and national unity have become favorite brand positioning propositions for
advertisers in India. The paper explores the reasons behind the popularity of these patriotic
themes that also embrace notions of nationhood, communal harmony and national unity in
commercials and public service advertisements. While these patriotic themes…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Social Media Challenges and Adoption Patterns among Public Relations Practitioners in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Social media has altered the design of modern society. It has changed the way people lived
and worked. Though no profession or industry is left untouched by the communication
revolution stirred by social media, yet communication professionals bore maximum impact.
This paper analyzed the usage and perception of public relation (PR) professionals…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Advertising and Ethnicities: A Comparative Study of Sri Lanka and Northeast India in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Ethnicity has become a key interest of advertisers in diverse societies. Contrary to the
popular argument that ethnic identities are threatened by the intensified influence of media
and consumer culture, they have become the core sites of representation and reproduction
of ethnic identities. It is arguable that in today’s (mass) mediated s…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Percption of Government Public Relations Practice by the People in Sabah: A Public Opinion Survey in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
This survey focuses on how the people in Sabah perceived Malaysia’s governmental public
relations practice and their perception of the government based upon it. It includes how the
different types of mass media and its content that they expose themselves to have influence
their image of the nation administration as well as its policies and i…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Fake News? A Survey on Video News Releases and their Implications on Journalistic Ethics, Independence and Credibility of Broadcast News in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
The traditional lines between journalism and public relations are now intertwined and public
relations practitioners have an influential role on the content consumers see every day in
newspapers and on news broadcasts. This survey looked at video news releases and their
implications about journalists’ ethics, integrity, independence and c…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Sharing Fear via Facebook: A Lesson in Political Public Relations in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
Our study compared the use of fear messages on Facebook by Barack Obama and Mitt
Romney during the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. Results show that written fear messages
embedded in photographs posted on Facebook by both candidates affected the degree to
which those photographs were shared. More specifically, photographs containing…[Read more] -
Jyotirmaya Patnaik deposited Indian Television in the Eras of Pre-Liberalisation and Liberalisation in the group
Television Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
India witnessed a revolution in the television communication landscape following the
shift in the economic policies in 1991. This analytical study looks into the changes and
additions in the functions performed by mass communication using television medium
before and after the implementation of liberalization policies in India. Tables…[Read more] - Load More