The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV: Production Design and the Boomer Era

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-346
Author(s):  
Elana Levine
Keyword(s):  
2021 ◽  
pp. 152747642110272
Author(s):  
Altman Yuzhu Peng

This article provides a feminist analysis of Chinese reality TV, using the recent makeover show— You Are So Beautiful (你怎么这么好看) as a case study. I argue that the notion of gender essentialism is highlighted in the production of You Are So Beautiful, which distances the Chinese show from its original American format— Queer Eye. This phenomenon is indicative of how existing gender power relations influence the production of popular cultural texts in post-reform China, where capitalism and authoritarianism weave a tangled web. The outcomes of the research articulate the interplay between post-socialist gender politics and reality TV production in the Chinese context.


1998 ◽  

Ken Loach is one of Britain's most distinguished, and respected, film-makers. His career embraces both film and television. His landmark TV production of Cathy Come Home caused such an outcry over the plight of the homeless that Shelter was established in response. His film work is as remarkable as his television work. He makes tough, uncompromising films about a beleaguered working class – but with a poetry (as in Kes) and with a humanity soaked in humour (as in Riff Raff and Raining Stones). His work has been feted, especially on the Continent where Riff Raff received the Felix award (Europe's equivalent of the Oscar). Raining Stones won the Jury Prize at Cannes and the Best British Film of the Year award, and Land and Freedom, his film about the Spanish Civil War, won the International Critics prize at Cannes. Loach on Loach is an exploration of Ken Loach's cinema of social conscience, making much use of interviews and conversations with the man himself.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Oliver ◽  
Newton Velji

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the emerging theme of risk aversion in entrepreneurs following high levels of industry consolidation. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a viewpoint on the authors’ opinion and interpretation of industry consolidation. Findings The UK Independent TV Production Industry has experienced a remarkable degree of consolidation with corporate acquisitions and mergers changing the size, shape and revenue distribution among firms in the industry. In addition, entrepreneurs appear to be more risk averse in terms of entering the industry. Practical implications If the trend in entrepreneurs in the UK TV Production Industry being more risk averse continues, then the number of new startup firms will fall and that could put the future of the industry at jeopardy. Originality/value This paper presents an interesting observation on the impact of consolidation of the UK Independent TV Production Industry, in so far as, entrepreneurs appear to be becoming more risk averse.


Author(s):  
Tanner Mirrlees

In the preface to a seminal exposé of the “intern nation,” Ross Perlin (2012) writes, “reality TV truly embraces the intern” (xii). This article describes and analyzes how 20 reality TV intern job ads for 19 different reality TV studios represent the work of interns and internships in the capitalist reality TV industry. By interrogating how the job postings depict the work that reality TV studios expect interns to do, the skills that TV studios expect interns to possess as a prerequisite to considering them eligible for mostly unpaid positions, the asymmetrical power relations between studios and interns, and the studios’ utilization of “hope” for a career-relevant experience to recruit interns, the article argues that the reality TV intern is actually a misclassified worker. The study demonstrates that reality TV interns are workers whose labour feeds reality TV production and that reality TV internships are a means of getting workers to labour without pay. The conclusion establishes some grounds for a reality TV intern class action suit.  


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Guerrero-Pérez

Television is entertainment. Nowadays the TV show business is identified to the concept of «trash television» to a greater extent. Nevertheless to entertain offering quality programmes is as respectable and necessary as to inform or educate. Among the immense miscellanea of entertainment genres, subgenres and formats, the game show stands out because of its noble spreading of values as the desire of being better and the stimulate of empathy and knowlodge. In spite of being in television since its birth, the game show has never disappeared of the schedule. The reason of this success is based on its structure and scheduling flexibility, its wide margins of profitability and on its capacity for involving to the audience in the programme itself. In Spain, the game show is one of the most frequent genres –since 1996, Spanish TV production companies have produced an average of more than 32 games each season, a number only overwhelmed by the local fiction (sitcoms and TV movies) - and its presence in the most watched programme ranking is constant in every television season. La televisión es fundamentalmente entretenimiento. Hoy día, el espectáculo televisivo se identifica en gran medida con la «telebasura». Sin embargo, entretener con un contenido de calidad debería ser considerada una labor tan respetable y necesaria como la de informar o educar. De entre la inmensa maraña de géneros, subgéneros y formatos de entretenimiento, el concurso destaca por la noble difusión de valores como el afán de superación y el estímulo de la empatía o el conocimiento. A pesar de haber estado presente en la pequeña pantalla desde el nacimiento del medio, nunca ha desaparecido de las parrillas televisivas. La razón del éxito radica en su flexibilidad de estructura y programación, los amplios márgenes de rentabilidad que permite y su capacidad para involucrar a la audiencia en el programa. En España, el concurso es uno de los géneros más producidos –desde 1996, las productoras españolas han producido una media de más de 32 concursos cada temporada, cifra exclusivamente superada por la suma de todos los géneros de ficción- y su presencia en el ranking de los programas más vistos es constante en todas las temporadas televisivas.


Author(s):  
Luiza Lusvarghi

The resumption of audiovisual productions in Latin America during the 1990s have not onlyaffected the cinematographic sphere, but TV production as well. The latest production aimed at exploringthis genre is a Chilean series co-produced with HBO Latin America named Profugos (Runaways), featuringfour popular local actors and directed by Pablo Larraín of the acclaimed film Tony Manero (2008,Brazil/Chile). Profugos shows that definitely soap opera is no longer the only Latin American fictionalformat, besides dialoguing with the action genre global tradition, also marking the consolidation of majornetworks intervention policy towards the local market


1969 ◽  
Vol 46 (7) ◽  
pp. 461
Author(s):  
W. Robert Barnard ◽  
George Tressel

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