scholarly journals ‘A View from North of the Border’: Scotland’s ‘Forgotten’ Contribution to the History of the Prime-Time BBC1 Contemporary Single TV Play Slot

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-341
Author(s):  
John R. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Prime Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tv Play

Small Axe and the big tree of 2020

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (77) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Roshi Naidoo
Keyword(s):  
Prime Time ◽  
Black Representation ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Slow Progress

This article reflects on Steve McQueen's Small Axe series, exploring its importance in placing black narratives at the centre of history and on prime time television. It locates it within the context of a longer history of struggles over black representation and misrepresentation in mainstream British media. Naidoo draws on her own experiences to discuss the very slow progress towards diversity in the cultural life of Britain. She pays tribute to pioneers who campaigned for a more representative media in Britain. What made these films especially important was the space given to pleasure, presence and collective joy.

scholarly journals Lesbian, gay and bisexual representation on Australian entertainment television: 1970–2000

2019 ◽  
Vol 174 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
Whitney Monaghan
Keyword(s):  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Television History ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entertainment Television ◽  
Queer History ◽  
And Bisexual

With the exception of a small number of contributions to the study of gay and lesbian representation in Australia, the queer history of Australian entertainment television has been left unexamined. This article seeks to address this gap through analysis of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) characters in Australian entertainment television over a 30-year period from 1970 to 2000. The article examines the rise and fall of LGB representation on prime time Australian television from 1970 onwards in order to understand how key shifts in the politics of Australian cultural life have come to influence Australian television broadcasting. Charting the representation of LGB characters on Australian entertainment television, this article seeks to understand the politics of inclusion and exclusion of LGB characters and provides the basis for further research into Australian queer television history.

Reality Television

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Murray
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Cable Networks ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

While we can locate the start of the most recent wave of American reality TV in the 2000–2001 season with the premiere of Survivor and Big Brother, the history of the genre reaches back to the very earliest days of broadcast television, with programs such as Queen for a Day and Candid Camera. The current, and perhaps most significant and long-lasting, wave of reality television developed out of a moment of financial destabilization for the broadcast networks. In an environment of rising production costs, intense competition from cable networks, and the appearance of a range of new digital technologies that threatened the very basics of the financing and production of broadcast television, networks welcomed reality formats—many of which were created and sold by European packagers—into their prime-time schedules. The genre has become so profitable over the past decade that not only has it formed the base of network prime-time schedules, but it has also seeped into virtually all cable programming, often helping form a cable network’s brand identity. Media scholars quickly took note of these industrial changes and also considered how cultural and political changes might also be fueling the popularity of the genre at the turn of the 21st century—particularly the increased acceptance of surveillance and the intensification of neoliberal strategies and discourses. As a result, reality television became a catalyst for not just the restructuring of the television business, but also for the study of television in an academic environment. Over the preceding decade, the focus and methods of television studies had been remade as scholars considered the social, economic, philosophical, and political implications of a genre that makes claims to the Real, the ordinary, and the spectacular simultaneously. This article details some of the most relevant and important works related to the project of understanding the global phenomenon of reality television.

Screenings

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-87
Author(s):  
Paul Julian Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Broadcast Channel ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Television Series ◽  
International Distribution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sor Juana

Columnist Paul Julian Smith puts a Mexican TV hit that has gone global into perspective for FQ's readers. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the seventeenth-century poet and nun, has a good claim to be the best-known woman in the history of Mexico. Looking scholarly on the two-hundred-peso banknote, where she is depicted with an ink quill and a volume of her collected works, she has long been an incongruous presence among the virile Aztecs, revolutionaries, and presidents that grace the rest of Mexican currency. But only now has she been awarded that special honor: a biographical television series on her richly resonant and mysterious life. Patricia Arriaga Jordán, perhaps the most distinguished television producer in the country, created Juana Inés for Canal 11, the free public broadcast channel owned by the Instituto Politécnico Nacional university with which she has long collaborated. The seven-hour-long episodes were broadcast nationally twice a week in prime time beginning on March 26, 2016, and subsequently sold for international distribution to Netflix where, at the time of writing, they are available in the United States.

Argentine Media Regulation, Fake News, and the Election of Mauricio Macri

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana De Maio
Keyword(s):  
Prime Time ◽  
Fake News ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Media Regulation ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right

November 2015 became a key date in the history of Argentina as former president Cristina Fernandez’ party lost the national elections by the narrowest of margins, less than 700,000 votes, to the right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri, ending a twelve-year run of one of the most progressive governments in the history of Argentina. Many analysts argue that large media conglomerates, especially the Clarín Group, played a significant role in the process leading to political change. Macri supporters in the city of Buenos Aires provided some reasons for their decision to vote for Macri and against Daniel Scioli, who ran on Fernandez’ party ticket. Their answers seem to be influenced by a series of fake news (misleading news articles) published by Clarín and La Nación, two leading news organizations in Argentina, during the months before the national elections. These misleading news stories were published in the front pages of those newspapers and at prime time in their affiliate TV and radio stations. Corrections and retractions rarely appeared in the front pages or prime time. Macri voters came to accept the initial news as legitimate and were influenced by them during the 2015 presidential election. Considering the insignificant margin of votes deciding the election, it can be argued that the two news organizations may have been instrumental in shaping the perceptions of just enough voters to swing the results in Macri’s favor. This suggests that dominant mainstream media have had a significant influence on voters’ attitudes and that this may explain in part the election’s outcome.

scholarly journals Essential oil of lavender in anxiety disorders: Ready for prime time?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Malcolm ◽  
Kimberly Tallian
Keyword(s):  
Essential Oil ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Anxiolytic Effect ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Linalyl Acetate ◽  
5Ht1a Receptor ◽  
Lavender Oil ◽  
Voltage Gated Calcium Channels ◽  
Individual Function ◽  
History Of

Abstract Anxiety disorders are some of the most common psychiatric disorders, with potentially debilitating consequences on individual function. Existing pharmacotherapies for anxiety disorders are limited by delay to therapeutic effect, dependence, tolerance, withdrawal, and abuse potential. Therefore, safe and evidence-based complementary or alternative therapies may be important allies in the care of patients with anxiety disorders. Essential oils are lipophilic and concentrated botanical extracts that exhibit many properties of drugs, although they are not Food and Drug Administration approved and have limitations characteristic of herbal preparations. Lavender essential oil has an extensive anecdotal history of anxiolytic benefit that has recently been supported by clinical efficacy studies. The 2 primary terpenoid constituents of lavender essential oil, linalool and linalyl acetate, may produce an anxiolytic effect in combination via inhibition of voltage-gated calcium channels, reduction of 5HT1A receptor activity, and increased parasympathetic tone. The objectives of this article are to provide a brief overview of lavender oil in aromatherapy, explore variability in the constituents of lavender oil, summarize its pharmacology and safety profile, as well as describe its body of research that has been conducted for anxiety.

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