Images of the European Crisis: Populism and Contemporary Crime TV Series

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Federico Pagello
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
European Society ◽  
International Market ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Crime Dramas ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Serial Crime ◽  
Dramatic Shift

During the last two decades a dramatic shift in the production and distribution strategies of TV series has taken place on a global level. This article discusses how these broad changes also led to a transformation in the form and the themes of European crime series, which emerge as ideal objects to study the representation of European societies in contemporary popular culture. The article looks at recent serial crime dramas such as La casa de papel, Suburra, and Peaky Blinders, which have abandoned the classic formula of European crime TV series, usually focused on the figure of the detective and primarily addressed to a national audience. Designed for an international market, these series provocatively concentrate on the figure of the criminal and adopt an explicitly sensationalist approach. The article argues that this style and the bleak depiction of European society in these series are both an expression and a critical representation of the rise of populism across the Old Continent.

Global and local rhetorics at a public-facing private company: Studiocanal and French cinema

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-327
Author(s):  
Christopher Meir
Keyword(s):  
International Market ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Film Production ◽  
Home Market ◽  
French Cinema ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Made In

This article utilizes Canal+’s film production and distribution subsidiary Studiocanal as a way to understand both companies’ impacts on French cinema since the formation of the subsidiary in the early 1990s. As such, the article is structured as a chronology and an analysis of the major films made in French and financed by Studiocanal in terms of their critical and popular reception. The article also examines the talent relationships underpinning this production and the trajectories of the various stars, writers, directors, and producers who worked on the films as well as the executives who oversaw them. Finally, the article analyzes the corporate rhetoric that was advanced by both Studiocanal and Canal+ over the years to position itself in the French and international markets. Synthesizing these branches of the analysis and noting certain cyclical patterns, the article argues that Studiocanal’s relationship to French cinema has been complex and changeable, at times limited in favor of pursuing the international market, at times devoting ample amounts of rhetoric and resources to pursuing success in its home market. Moreover, the article demonstrates that the company’s production activities have helped to mold a generation of French filmmakers and industry executives who have in turn gone on to influential careers. Looking forward, the article concludes by arguing that by virtue of its size and scale as a producer and distributor, Studiocanal will always be a significant player in French cinema.

Cell Broadcasting Opportunities of Modern Mobile Communications and Its Usage in Emergency Warning Facilities

2009 ◽  
pp. 375-387
Author(s):  
Ioannis P. Chochliouros ◽  
Anastasia S. Spiliopoulou ◽  
George Agapiou ◽  
Nikolaos Lazaridis M.D. Ph.D
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
International Market ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Notification System ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
National Network ◽  
Fast Development ◽  
A Cell ◽  
Public Notification

In the scope of the present chapter, the authors evaluate several potential opportunities from the suggested use of cell broadcasting systems in mobile communications and its specific usage mainly in emergency warning facilities, at the global level. Cell Broadcasting (CB) is a cellular-based public notification system, existing in the vast majority of all modern mobile infrastructures, worldwide. It can instantly (within a brief timeframe of some seconds) broadcast a cell phone text alert or message to a large number of people (independently of their network operators) specific to a geographical area, covered either by a single cell or by the entire (regional or national) network. Thus, CB technology enables governmental and other appropriate authorities/entities to securely transmit emergency alerts of natural or manmade disasters to the cellular phones of the subscribers in specific areas. Simultaneously, it can offer multiple extra advantages for further market offerings and development. This chapter discusses the challenge imposed by the fast development of the corresponding cellular facilities and, after providing some fundamental technical informative background, it focuses on the advantages offered due to CB with an overview of the current European and international market. The chapter then analyzes options for further evolution in several sectors (political issues, technical matters, and regulatory perspectives). CB is a strong, viable, and immediate communications solution, which can be put in place to better alert citizens.

scholarly journals K-pop fan labor and an alternative creative industry: A case study of GOT7 Chinese fans

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-406
Author(s):  
Meicheng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Fan Culture ◽  
Unskilled Labor ◽  
Commodification Of Culture ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Distribution Process ◽  
Depth Interviews

Korean popular music or K-pop has achieved popularity among global audiences. The uniqueness of K-pop fan culture has helped to shape the success of the K-pop industry. Through a case study of Chinese fan labor vis-à-vis K-pop male idol group GOT7, the author notes three types of K-pop fan labor: specialized labor, managerial labor, and unskilled labor. This research argues that fan labor transforms the K-pop industry into an alternative creative industry because fan labor as creative labor is an indispensable part of the K-pop industry. Fan labor is utilized to distinguish fans from non-fans, and to draw boundaries between the grateful, more enthusiastic fans and the casual self-proclaimed fans who do not contribute to fandom or their idols’ success. These Chinese K-pop fans comply with the K-pop industry’s commodification of culture, are exploited by the K-pop industry, and seek empowerment in the K-pop production and distribution process. This paper’s exploration of fan labor, based on the author’s participant observations and in-depth interviews, will thus contribute to studies on the creative industries, creative labor, fandom, and the transnational flows of popular culture.

The Mercury Puzzle

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Schwabl
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Man ◽  
Food Law ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Pharmaceutical Practice ◽  
Foundation Stone

In the last decades, Tibetan medicine has spread around the globe. From a Western point of view, Tibetan medicine is part of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (cam). In many Asian medicines, mercury sulphide is considered an important ingredient. Tibetan medicine is famous for its precious pills, many of which contain mercury sulphide in the form of an ash called tsotel (btso thal). In the Western, specifically in the European context, such ingredients are not accepted for human consumption. These legalities are discussed from the perspective of today’s pharmaceutical practice in Europe. Neither the law of medicinal products nor the food law allow such ingredients and place strict limits on residues of heavy metals. The cam community is also very cautious about any use of heavy metals. This article advocates that on the global level, the production and distribution of Tibetan medicines has to consider today’s modern pharmaceutical and biomedical environment. The formulas of Tibetan medicine based solely on herbs and certain minerals could be the foundation stone for a modern pharmacopoeia of Tibetan medicine. Tibetan medicines are always a carefully blended mixture of many ingredients. This multi-compound principle could then serve as a basic concept for a modernised Tibetan medicine. Such medicines have to be investigated in their entirety, without reducing the formula to its active ingredients. This article suggests that such a herbal mixture could be understood as a new ‘man-made herb’, where the scientific tools specifically developed to investigate individual herbal constituents would be applied to the entire formula. Tibetan medicine and its products based on pharmaceutical-grade clean herbs and minerals can offer important therapeutic options for humankind on a global level.

Can the Meeting Place Be Changed? Crime and Identity Discourse in Russian Television Series of the 1990s

Slavic Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Prokhorova
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Social Models ◽  
Crime Drama ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Crime Dramas ◽  
National Mythology

Since the mid-1990s, crime drama has been the leading genre of post-Soviet television. In this article, Elena Prokhorova discusses various genres of recent crime series, both within the historical context and as coherent discourse (specifically, identity discourse). Her analysis draws narrative and ideological parallels between recent Russian productions and Brezhnev-era television mini-series, especially as an attempt to reconceptualize national mythology. The flourishing of popularized “narratives of control”—spy thrillers and police series—in the 1970s signaled both the crisis of Soviet identity and an attempt to give a boost to the waning ideology by mixing popular culture formulas with ideology. Likewise, recent Russian crime dramas use Soviet and prerevolutionary popular culture formulae as a testing ground for new social models. Prokhorova explores the attributes of crime series as artistic texts, such as genre conventions, choice of plots and heroes, visual representation, as well as broader cultural values that underlie those choices.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT MECHANISMS FOR GLOBAL IT OUTSOURCING DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Olha Yatsenko ◽  
Tetiana Didukh
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
International Market ◽  
It Outsourcing ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Global Outsourcing ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Different Levels

The purpose of this article is to develop a deeper understanding of government policy regarding global IT outsourcing. The effects of global outsourcing are subjective to the economy of each country and the intention for which the same was undertaken. The development and the formation of a competitive environment of the global outsourcing market in IT business is taking into account the relevant prerequisites, has certain trends and results. The study of these characteristics allowed to establish the form of functioning of this phenomenon at the global level, to outline the significant advantages and problems of this type of business, which in its turn influenced the regulatory policy of states to transform or stabilise its economy. The article identifies the components and structure of institutional support for IT outsourcing development at different levels of management and regulation starting from local to international. The purpose of the article is to systematize and analyze the state of institutional support for the regulation of global outsourcing of IT business in the international market. Problems and tendencies of influence of institutes, their mechanisms and tools are revealed. Methodical approaches to the assessment of economic efficiency are offered. The possible consequences of their imperfection are described. The directions of improvement for the future are substantiated.

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