Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia Aitaki
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Production Culture ◽  
Production Study ◽  
The Relationship

This article draws from interviews with creators of television fiction (directors and screenwriters) with professional experience in Greek private television and examines how and why fiction programmes are produced in a commercial context. By focusing on the first decade of private television in Greece, an era popularly remembered as the ‘golden age of Greek television’, this study makes use of accounts from ‘exclusive informants’ in order to complicate facile assumptions about the relationship between commercialization, ideology and entertainment. As such, this article aspires to update the (limited) scholarship on Greek television production culture and to contribute to the recent research focusing specifically on private television in Greece.

The emotional component of teaching. A reflective training experience with teachers

2020 ◽  
pp. 254-267
Author(s):  
Alessandra Priore
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
School Life ◽  
Training Experience ◽  
Emotional Component ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Monitoring Phase

The system of relationships and emotions that develop in the teaching-learning process define the complexity of teachers' education and pose the challenge of bringing out the emotional and affective culture that guides school life. Several studies on teaching practices highlight the tendency to refer to technical aspectsas a key dimension of professionalism, rather than on relational and emotional dimensions that can promote the relationship with student. The creative and unprecedented reconfiguration of professional practice is configured as the outcome of a reflexive process of subjective construction and de-construction of the profession and its development.The paper proposes a reflective training experience, which involved 76 teachers, focused on emotional and relational dimensions on teaching and based on the use of the narrative-autobiographical instruments (diary, narrative, metaphor). The results achieved in the monitoring phase show that the training offered an opportunity to reflect on oneself and one's personal and professional experience, starting from the use of alternative perspectives and interpretations than those that are already in use

‘Each Song Was Just Like a Little Sermon’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Land
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Military Training ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
National Pride ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter is central to the volume’s chronological contentions, as its argument accounts for the specialized, one-dimensional Dibdin of ‘Tom Bowling’ that has endured into recent scholarship. Focusing on Dibdin’s posthumous reception, it examines the moral and rhetorical difficulties of repackaging Dibdin’s works for a Victorian sensibility; it explores the specifics of mid-century concert culture previously highlighted by Derek Scott and William Weber as central to changes in nineteenth-century taste and programming; and it develops the theme of nostalgia into a revelatory consideration of the relationship between new naval technologies, national pride, and military training, and the songs, people, and language of a remembered Napoleonic ‘golden age’—to which Dibdin proves to have been as central, in the Victorian imagination, as Nelson.

scholarly journals The Shock of the New: The Origin of the Age of Aquarius and the 2012 Phenomenon

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Nicholas Campion
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
World History ◽  
Age Of Aquarius ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Recent Attention

The recent attention paid to the prophecy that December 2012 was to be a pivotal moment in world history has renewed interest in the relationship between astronomy and apocalyptic ideas. This paper examines the background to the ‘2012 Phenomenon’ by exploring the origins of the idea of the Age of Aquarius. It concludes that the Age is best understood as a means of objectifying the prediction of a future golden age by reference to measurable astronomical certainties. In line with the revolutionary traditions of western millenarianism, the Aquarian Age is counter-cultural and opposed to political and religious authorities.

EARLY RESPONSES TO VIRGIL'S FOURTHECLOGUE

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. T. Houghton
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
New Age ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
New Era ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Pastoral Poetry ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Relationship

The fourthEcloguepresents itself explicitly as a political poem, a loftier intervention in the humble world of pastoral poetry (4.1–3). This grander type of pastoral, moreover, is singled out as possessing a specifically Roman political significance: these ‘woods’ are to be ‘worthy of a consul’ (silvae sint consule dignae, 3), and the coming Golden Age is set within a precisely identifiable political context, the consulship of C. Asinius Pollio in 40bc(te consule, 4.11). Beyond that, however, the details of the relationship between the miraculous child, whose growth to maturity will be accompanied by the fabulous portents of the new era, and the contemporary political setting at Rome are left tantalizingly, perhaps prudently, vague. It was no doubt with a view to promoting his own political interests that Pollio's son, ‘the rash and ambitious Asinius Gallus’, claimed to have been the originalpuerof Virgil's poem. If so, he was very far from being the last public figure to appropriate the resounding cadences of the fourthEclogueto endorse his own position: it was not long before (in Harry Levin's words) ‘The Pollio eclogue had virtually created a minor genre, a means for the court poet to flatter his sovereign, as well as a device for balancing the moderns against the ancients.’ But even before the opportunistic assertions of Pollio's son, the poem's prophecies of a new age had already been re-appropriated to tie down the oracular generalities of the eclogue to a particular individual and a definite set of political circumstances, in a move that was to have significant repercussions for the later fortunes of Virgil's essay in pastoral panegyric.

‘A lot of sharp teeth and claws’: Production culture and storytelling at National Geographic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Phillip D. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Global Media ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Production Culture ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between the production culture and storytelling practices of content producers for the National Geographic organization. Supplementing producer interviews with a textual and contextual analysis of National Geographic and the wildlife media it disseminates, this article suggests a number of political, economic and cultural factors that determine the focus of narratives created and disseminated by National Geographic across its many global media platforms.

Images of Baetica. The ambivalent hispanic reception of Les Aventures de Télémaque

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 013
Author(s):  
José María Iñurritegui Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Hispanic Literature ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
The Relationship

In a crucial passage of Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fénelon identified Baetica with a form of sociability highly reminiscent of the Golden Age. Destined to leave a deep and controversial mark in the political and moral debates throughout the 18th century, that evocative image of the most elevated status of a material civilization removed from and impervious to luxury, the spirit of conquest and the logic of despotism, also mobilized the reflexive capacities characteristic of the Hispanic cultural order. In a steady and lengthy sequenced, analysed in the light of the corresponding epistemological uncertainties, of the morality of luxury, or of enquiry into origins, Fénelon’s Baetica was the object in Hispanic literature of very diverse and even contradictory readings. A diversity that illustrates the complexity and volatility of the relationship established at the time by that cultural order with the intellectual approaches disseminated and projected from the République des lettres.

scholarly journals Bringing the Battle to Britain: Band of Brothers and Television Runaway Production in the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-333
Author(s):  
Simone Knox
Keyword(s):  
Professional Experience ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
Runaway Production ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contractual Agreements ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the development and pre-production history of the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. It does so via a combination of original archive research (conducted at the BFI Reuben Library) and interviews with several industry figures with relevant professional experience, including John Barclay, the current Head of Recorded Media for the UK trade union Equity, and Roger Harrop, the former director of regional film commission Herts Film Link. Using these methodologies, the article identifies Band of Brothers as the first significant US runaway television production in the UK, and uncovers how this HBO programme came to benefit from British film tax relief. Here, close attention is paid to dubious practices concerning tax policy and contractual agreements for actors, especially Damian Lewis's pay. The article demonstrates the impact Band of Brothers has had on television production in the UK in terms of providing Equity with a useful precedent when negotiating for subsequent international productions such as Game of Thrones (2011–19). Band of Brothers offers important and timely lessons to be learned, especially given the recent growth of US television runaway productions in the UK.

The Principle of Open and Competitive Recruitment to Official Posts in Local Government Units in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-536
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Wiacek Burmanczuk
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Practical Nature ◽  
Specific Obligation

This article is to present the principle of open and competitive recruitment for official positions, applicable under the Polish Act on local government employees. The point of departure for the discussion on the provisions of the Act is the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.  Not only has the analysis covered the regulation contained in the Act on employees of local government , but also addressed the relationship between the employer's specific obligation to re-employ the employee on the basis of the provisions of the Polish Labour Code  and the rule of general recruitment for official positions applicable under the Law on local government employees. These considerations are largely of a practical nature, based in particular on the relevant case-law and on the professional experience of the author herself, who is a local government staff member employed as an attorney-at-law in a local government unit of the regional level.

scholarly journals En torno al tapíz intitulado Speculum Humanae Vitae que fue de Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amparo López Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Siglo De Oro ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazan ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
Emilia Pardo Bazán ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In ◽  
Golden Age Literature

En este artículo se presenta un tapiz intitulado speculum humanae vitae, custodiado en el Museo de Bellas Artes de la Coruña, indicándose que la fuente de inspiración del mismo fue un grabado xilográfico al claro obscuro, obra de Andrea Andreani (Mantua 1560-1623), inspirado en un dibujo de Fortunio hecho en Siena en 1588. Se establece la relación del mismo con la Biblia y con la literatura del Siglo de Oro y finalmente se aventura el posible uso de éste desde su manufactura hasta la actualidad indicando que perteneció a Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán. This article presents a tapestry intitled Speculum humanae vitae wich belongs to the Museo de Bellas Artes from La Coruña.Inspired by a chiaroscuro engraving by Andrea Andreani (Mantua 1560-1623) based on a drawing by Fortunio made in Siena in 1588, this article analyzes its iconography and explicative inscriptions, concluding that this piece belongs to the Counter- Reformation current as opposed to the category oí Reformation vanitas. The relationship between the tapestry and the Bible as well as Golden Age Literature will be discussed. Finally, the functions of this piece from its production and until the present will be postulated noting that it belonged to Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán.

scholarly journals Influences of Experiential Pursuing Tendency in Experience Perception with the Moderating Role of Expertise and Demographics

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Buntae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
Emotional Dimensions ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

<span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Cambria Math', serif;">This study examines the relationship of consumers' experiential pursuing tendency and experience perception with the moderating role of consumers' expertise and their demographics, sex and age. Experience pursuing tendency is based on an individual personality. Experience perception is individuals' affection in the procession of consumption or after purchase. The study found that there are relationships between consumers' experience pursuing tendency and experience perception, sensual, affective consumers perceived even more emotional dimensions of experience. Whereas the other side of consumers, the pursuers more practical are less susceptible to emotional experience and more to professional experience. Accumulated knowledge by indirect learning or directly by oneself does not control the relationship between experiential pursuing tendency and experience perception. But sex and age among demographics are involving the relationships between them. Aged consumers over 50s perceived experience less, especially to the emotional side of experience perception. Finally, managerial and research implications are presented from the results of the study.</span>

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