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Full-Text Articles in Television
The Golden Ratio Of Algorithms To Artists? Streaming Services And The Platformization Of Creativity In American Television Production, Annemarie Navar-Gill
The Golden Ratio Of Algorithms To Artists? Streaming Services And The Platformization Of Creativity In American Television Production, Annemarie Navar-Gill
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
In this article, I examine how and why “platformization” was initially made sense of by writers in the American television industry. As streaming platforms entered the production space and became important homes for the commissioning of longform television content, they sought to build brand images as places that were both “data-driven” and characterized by work cultures of “creative freedom.” At least for a time in the mid-2010s, they succeeded in selling this conceptual link to the professional culture of Hollywood television screenwriters. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews from 2017 as well as a longer ranging analysis of trade press, I …
The Prison-Televisual Complex, Allison Page, Laurie Ouellette
The Prison-Televisual Complex, Allison Page, Laurie Ouellette
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
In 2016, the A&E cable network partnered with the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana, to incarcerate seven volunteers as undercover prisoners for two months. This article takes the reality television franchise 60 Days In as a case study for analyzing the convergence of prison and television, and the rise of what we call the prison-televisual complex in the United States, which denotes the imbrication of the prison system with the television industry, not simply television as an ideological apparatus. 60 Days In represents an entanglement between punishment and the culture industries, whereby carceral logics flow into the business and …
"The 100" And The Social Contract Of Social Tv, Myles Mcnutt
"The 100" And The Social Contract Of Social Tv, Myles Mcnutt
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
I explore how the controversy surrounding an LGBT storyline on The 100 (2014–) points to the shifting social contracts of social media engagement between fans and the TV industry, as well as the challenges faced by fans and critics who attempted to solidify that contract in the wake of said controversy.
Social Tv Fandom And The Media Industries, Myles Mcnutt
Social Tv Fandom And The Media Industries, Myles Mcnutt
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Editorial for special issue, "Social TV Fandom and the Media Industries," Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 26 (March 15, 2018).
Narratives Of Miami In Dexter And Burn Notice, Myles Mcnutt
Narratives Of Miami In Dexter And Burn Notice, Myles Mcnutt
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
In popular discourse around television, a series’ relationship with place is often marked through the suggestion its setting is “like a character in the show”, but this article argues against adopting this as a framework for analyzing television’s relationship with space and place. It articulates the relationship between this discourse of “spatial capital” and hierarchies of cultural capital within the television industry, limiting the types of series that are deemed to warrant closer investigation regarding issues of space and place and lacking nuanced engagement with place’s relationship with television narrative in particular. After breaking down the logic under which these …
Mobile Production: Spatialized Labor, Location Professionals, And The Expanding Geography Of Television Production, Myles Mcnutt
Mobile Production: Spatialized Labor, Location Professionals, And The Expanding Geography Of Television Production, Myles Mcnutt
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
This article addresses the spatial challenges facing television laborers amid an increasingly expansive and contingent environment of local production incentives. Pushing away from the term runaway production and its limited engagement with local, spatialized dynamics of labor, I argue for a consideration of “mobile production,” wherein television series are capable of being executed in an increasingly wide range of locations—not necessarily Los Angeles—and capable of being moved should changes in an incentive system create the need to do so. Through personal interviews and analysis of industry discourse, this case study of location professionals considers how the mobility of production affects …
You Have Friends That Want You Back Home, Tim Anderson
You Have Friends That Want You Back Home, Tim Anderson
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Tim Anderson analyzes the HBO television show Treme, its culture and cultural economies, it's music and cuisine, and it's 22 narrative hours. Viewers watch musicians struggle with bar owners, the recording business, the law, and each other.
"Listen. Do You Want To Know A Secret?": Mad Men, Episode 10, "Hands & Knees", Tim Anderson
"Listen. Do You Want To Know A Secret?": Mad Men, Episode 10, "Hands & Knees", Tim Anderson
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
The British invasion of Sterling Cooper at the end of season four has resulted in a noticeably different firm and a noticeably different direction to the series. This has also meant moments of audible change.
About The (W)Hoopla: A Few Pedagogical Thoughts About The Super Bowl Ritual, Tim Anderson
About The (W)Hoopla: A Few Pedagogical Thoughts About The Super Bowl Ritual, Tim Anderson
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
In an era of fragmentation it's the only media program left that has any kind of mass ritual component. Which, of course, is not only why so many debate its contents but why and how we, as scholars, should approach the program.