Autobiographical adaptation in NBC’s Love Is a Four-Letter Word

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynge Stegger Gemzøe
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Original Script ◽  
Letter Word ◽  
Production Studies

This article analyses the adaptation process from the Danish relationship drama television series ‘Nikolaj and Julie’ (2002–03) to Love Is a Four-Letter Word, the NBC pilot and remake attempt (2015). This comparison is a prime example of autobiographical adaptation, in which the adaptation process can be closely intertwined with a desire to tell autobiographical stories. Using production studies and textual analysis, the article illustrates how Diana Son, the showrunner responsible for adapting the original format into the NBC version, rewrote the original script using a location, themes and characters largely inspired by her personal life and surroundings. The article ultimately argues that in format adaptation, research combining established theoretical frameworks and approaches with the idea of autobiographical adaptation is likely to be a fruitful endeavour in a great many cases.

scholarly journals Misterchef? Cooks, Chefs and Gender in MasterChef Australia

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Herkes ◽  
Guy Redden
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Professional Standard ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Culinary Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Australian History ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Popular Television

Abstract MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the professional chef remains almost exclusively male. Despite its rhetoric of inclusivity, MCA does little to challenge norms of the professional gastronomic field that have devalued women’s cooking while valorising “hard” masculinized culinary cultures led by men.

scholarly journals Apes on TV: Medium specificity and considerations of continuity in early transmedia storytelling

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Benson
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Television Series ◽  
High Expectations ◽  
Early Attempt ◽  
Broadcast Television ◽  
Medium Specificity ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
History Of ◽  
Film Series ◽  
Tv Show

In 1974, CBS premiered a television series based on the popular Planet of the Apes films. Despite high expectations from the network, the series was a critical and ratings flop and CBS quickly canceled it in the middle of its first season. This article considers the short-lived Planet of the Apes (1974) series as an early attempt at transmedia storytelling and asks what its failure might reveal about certain pre-conglomeration, pre-franchising industrial logics, particularly as they relate to properties that transition from film to television. The Apes television series offers an opportunity to understand certain logics of transmedia textual management before they become entrenched in discourses of media franchising. Through a combination of industrial and textual analysis, I trace the history of the programme and ultimately argue that the industrial considerations (specifically those of network era broadcast television) heavily informed the intertextual relationships between the film series and the TV show.

Social Adaptation Problems among Amerasian Refugees

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Mullan ◽  
Lorraine Majka ◽  
Chong-Anna Rumsey
Keyword(s):  
Home Environment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
Behavioral Predictors

In this paper we describe and explain a variety of problems experienced by Amerasian youths upon their resettlement in the United States. We examine a matrix of contextual, household and individual behavioral predictors of Amerasian youths' problems and we argue that, taken individually, existing theoretical frameworks do not adequately explain the Amerasian adaptation process. The most significant predictors of Amerasian youths' problems are an unstable home environment, gender (maleness), whether or not the mother reported mental and physical problems, and the type of assistance provider (mutual assistance association). We add to existing research on Amerasians' process of adaptation by incorporating a wider variety of youths' problems into the dependent variable, by including hitherto unavailable independent variables into the analysis, and by suggesting some immediate strategies and new policy initiatives aimed at helping resettlement agencies deal with this specialized immigrant population. In sum, we demonstrate that Amerasians' unofficially “mixed” immigration status – they are designated as immigrants who are treated as refugees but are simultaneously half-American – compounds theorists and policy makers' difficulties in dealing conceptually with this population.

scholarly journals The Impact of Textual Analysis on Translation Competence

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddig Ahmed Ali
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

The present study aimed to assess the impact of textual analysis on translation competence and attempts to investigate textual analysis as an essential phase in the translation process. Moreover, it claims that any translation competence is reached through three phases: analysis, transfer, and restructuring as Nida has stated. In addition to that, this study extends over the ideas and theoretical frameworks of textual analysis made by many scholars to ease comprehending the text to be translated. The researcher used the analytical descriptive approach  in line with the field of the study. This approach describes the participants’ feedback and data to assess translation competence. Then the researcher prepared a survey  of 8 items as a tool for data collection. It conducted on 30 trainees and students of translation at Gassim University during the second term of the academic year, 2015.  Moreover, the data were collected from various resources including the internet, encyclopaedias, and translation references together with the survey. After the analysis, the study reached some findings. The results of those findings and data analysis showed that textual analysis influences the translation quality and enhance translators’ competence. A 67% of students were confident that the role of textual analysis in reaching translation competence. Based on these findings, the researcher presented some concluding remarks and recommendations. Finally, the study concluded that textual analysis enhances translator’s skills and competence.

“We Are So Pumped Full of Shit by the Media”

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Waling
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Social Judgment ◽  
Social Pressure ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Masculine Identity ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
The Media

Men’s lifestyle magazines have long since been the focus of theorists in their examination of masculinity. However, research concerning men’s responses to such content, and whether these representations speak to their perceptions on embodying particular forms of masculinity in an Australian context, is largely absent. To understand how Australian men conceptualize their own ideas about masculinity and identity, interviews were conducted with twenty Australian men who were asked to peruse copies of men’s lifestyle magazines while pondering what it means to be masculine. Engaging with the theoretical frameworks of representational masculinity and masculine reformulation patterns, the results of this study found that the men interviewed identified four themes of social pressure perpetuated by these magazines regarding their own formation of a masculine identity. These include media representation and cultural consumption pressures, body image and muscularity pressures, performative sex and desirability expectations, and the fear of social judgment from both those who expect, and those who reject, particular performances of masculinity. Despite these articulations, however, the men maintained that these expectations affect other men and not themselves. While these men did not identify with these pressures, a textual analysis of their responses suggest otherwise, indicating a paradox in which they both accept and reject the mythscapes of aspirational masculinity presented before them.

scholarly journals Theoretical Framework of Stance: An Introduction of A New Analytical Category, Neutral Epistemic Stance

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Sani Yantandu Uba ◽  
Mike Baynham
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Epistemic Stance ◽  
Phd Theses ◽  
Analytical Category

This paper extends Hyland’s (2005) theoretical framework of stance through the introduction of an additional analytic category of stance, neutral epistemic stance corresponding to Mushin’s (2001) factual epistemological stance. This article reviews various theoretical frameworks of stance and argues that none of these theoretical frameworks provide neutral linguistic markers of stance in academic writing. Using a corpus of twelve accounting PhD theses I conducted a textual analysis of different rhetorical sections between the theses, identifying what stance markers are used and why such stance markers are used and in what linguistic context such markers are used. This process led me to identify a new analytical category, neutral epistemic stance. This study contributes to the ongoing literature on stance in academic writing, arguing that unevaluated stance is also indicating taking up a neutral stance and can be understood as part of ‘doing objectivity’ in academic writing.

scholarly journals “I’M NOT AFRAID OF BEING CALLED A LOSER”: THE ISSUE OF AGENCY IN FINN’S IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE TELEVISION SERIES GLEE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Do So ◽  
Glee Club

This article analyzes the television series Glee and discusses the ways in which Finn’s identity construction — and his irresolution — can be read counter-hegemonically as fostering political agency. In order to do so, I discuss the concepts of identity and agency and notions such as social location and identification while conducting a textual analysis of specific scenes that pertain to the first season of the series. The analysis highlights that the character’s experience with the Glee club seems to be important for the constant re-construction of his identity. Such reconstruction is always part of a double movement: Finn, as a postmodern subject, is overtly contradictory. While his identity construction can be considered transgressive, at times his actions are in fact very conservative. Finn’s identity construction seems to demonstrate the ways in which Glee can be considered an example of postmodern contingency while being inserted simultaneously within restraining hegemonic discourse.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
David Evans-Powell
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Television Series ◽  
History Of

This chapter outlines the rationale for the monograph, explaining how and where The Blood on Satan’s Claw sits alongside Witchfinder General and The Wicker Man (often collectively termed the ‘unholy trinity’ amongst folk horror commentators). It places the film centrally within the ‘unholy trinity’ and within the folk horror tradition through references to Mark Gatiss’ appraisal of the film in his 2010 television series A History of Horror. It suggests that Satan’s Claw has received far less critical appreciation and sustained textual analysis than the other two films and concludes with a statement of intent that the monograph intends to rectify this imbalance.

scholarly journals Being a woman, mother to a child with cerebral palsy

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Marten Milbrath ◽  
Diana Cecagno ◽  
Deisi Cardoso Soares ◽  
Simone Coelho Amestoy ◽  
Hedi Crecencia Heckler de Siqueira
Keyword(s):  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
The People

OBJECTIVE: To get to know the adaptation process experienced by a woman, motivated by the birth of a child with cerebral palsy. METHODS: The investigation was performed with a descriptive, exploratory methodology, focusing on the qualitative approach. Six women, mothers of children with brain palsy, participated in the study. Data collection happened in an institution that delivers care to children with special needs, located in a town of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. RESULTS: data analysis revealed that the woman abdicates from her social, professional and even personal life to take better care of her child. Besides, these mothers were shown to need psychosocioeconomic support from their families and the people who surround them, in both the process of initial adaptation and overcoming and the whole period of care for the child. CONCLUSION: The woman assumes and experiences the responsibility of taking care of the child with special needs.

Theoretical Frameworks for Analysing Turn-Based Computer Strategy Games

2004 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Formal Systems ◽  
Strategy Games ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Representation Of Space ◽  
Strategy Game ◽  
Analytical Tools

This paper argues for a more specific formal methodology for the textual analysis of individual game genres. In doing so, it advances a set of formal analytical tools and a theoretical framework for the analysis of turn-based computer strategy games. The analytical tools extend the useful work of Steven Poole, who suggests a Peircian semiotic approach to the study of games as formal systems. The theoretical framework draws upon postmodern cultural theory to analyse and explain the representation of space and the organisation of knowledge in these games. The methodology and theoretical framework is supported by a textual analysis of Civilization II, a significant and influential turn-based computer strategy game. Finally, this paper suggests possibilities for future extensions of this work.

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