scholarly journals Television Sound Operators

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Tim Heath
Keyword(s):  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Film Research ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Television Research

The working practices of below the line television operators is an area of television studies that continues to be under-researched. Despite notable recent efforts, this lack of academic engagement is perhaps at its most pronounced in regards to the sub group of television operators who record, mix, and edit the soundtrack of British television. However, hands on methodologies continue to gain traction in the area of film and television research and, in doing so, create new opportunities to engage with below the line practices and bring into focus the hidden work of production personnel. This article, aims to explore these new methodologies and assess how they can bring new affordances to researchers engaging with communities who’s practices are often seen as routine and unremarkable. Focusing specifically on the work of television sound operators this article hopes to add to the growing body of work that sheds light on the practices of sound operators and the skills, codes, and identities that shape their work. By doing so through using hands on methods, it hopes to show the benefits of such approaches to wider television and film research.

America on Stage: the World in the Classroom

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group Presentations ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In this, the third paper originally presented at the ATHE conference in Atlanta in 1992, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Assistant Professor of Theatre in the American University, Washington, DC, discusses the problems and rewards of introducing American theatre, film, and television studies to a class of sixty students from a wide variety of nations and social backgrounds. Outlining the ideas and intentions behind a wide-ranging syllabus, she quotes from group presentations and individual responses to illustrate how works deeply rooted in American culture and assumptions can stimulate the recognition and discussion of social and cultural similarities and differences among responsive students.

Research Roundup: Film and Television Research

1977 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Richard Beach
Keyword(s):  
Film And Television ◽  
Television Research

‘Picture It If Yous Will’: Theatre and Theatregoing in Rural Scotland

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hamilton ◽  
Adrienne Scullion
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

In the following article, Christine Hamilton and Adrienne Scullion review the system of theatre provision and production that exists in the rural areas of Scotland, most especially in the Highlands and Islands, assessing the policy framework that exists in the nation as a whole and in the Highlands and Islands in particular. They highlight the role and responsibilities of volunteers within the distribution of professional theatre in Scotland, challenge the response of locally based theatre-makers and nationally responsible agencies to represent rural Scotland, and raise issues fundamental to the provision of culture nationally. In doing so, they question what we expect theatre policy to deliver in rural areas, and what we expect rural agents to contribute to theatre provision and policy. Finally, they suggest that, in the system of rural arts in Scotland, there are wider lessons for the development of arts in and the arts of other sparsely populated and fragile communities. Christine Hamilton is the director and Adrienne Scullion the academic director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research at the University of Glasgow, where Adrienne teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies.

Adaptation, Action, Response: ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (31) ◽  
pp. 203-220
Author(s):  
Ian Craven
Keyword(s):  
Television Studies ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Four Horsemen ◽  
Adaptation Action ◽  
The University

Several of the novels of the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco Ibanez (1867–1928) have provided the basis for theatrical adaptations: but the version of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1916) by Peter Granger-Taylor, staged in March 1990 at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, was the first for sixty years. In the following feature, Ian Craven, who teaches in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, provides a full account of Jon Pope's production, considering questions of adaptation, performance, and response, and also paying special attention to the influence of the screen versions of 1921 and 1962. His analysis is complemented by extracts from an interview with the adapter and director. A study by Margaret Eddershaw of Philip Prowse's production of Brecht's Mother Courage, in which Glenda Jackson took the title role during the same season at the Citizens, appeared in NTQ28 (November 1991).

scholarly journals Critical reflections on cultural appropriation, race and the role of fancy dress costume

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Linley Wild
Keyword(s):  
Academic Engagement ◽  
News Story ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Fashion Brand ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Social Importance

Cultural appropriation in fashionable dress has become an increasingly urgent subject within scholarly and generalist discussions. Few weeks now pass without a news story criticizing a fashion brand for producing and promoting culturally insensitive clothing. A form of clothing most frequently and controversially associated with cultural trespass, but generally marginalized within academic enquiries, is fancy dress costume. This article seeks, first, to promote a critical and continuous academic engagement with fancy dress costume and contribute to a growing body of scholarship that recognizes its cultural and social importance. Second, I complicate discussions about the causes of cultural appropriation within fancy dress costume by reflecting on the circumstances and motives in which people perform, dressed very differently to their conventional appearance. Addressing these points, the article makes a unique contribution to clothing studies and discussions about cultural appropriation by advocating a more nuanced understanding of people’s self-awareness when they participate in fancy dress costume, and suggests how this might be achieved.

Critical Contexts: Television Studies, Fandom Studies, and the Vid

Fanvids ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Charlotte Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Digital Video ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Audience Control ◽  
Technological Tools

What can television scholars and historians learn from vids and vidding? This chapter considers the vid form and vidding practice in existing scholarship. The bulk of academic engagement with vids and vidding is in the loosely defined field of fan studies rather than in television studies. However, vids are possible because of the changing form and shape of television, from home videocassette recording through to digital video. Audience control over watching television, theorized as ways of controlling that flow, also provides the technological tools for making vids. The vid form is textual proof of fans using the tools at their disposal to intervene, respond, and create in a context wherein they have no official role.

Rites of Passage: Jewish Representations of Children and Childhood in Contemporary Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-187
Author(s):  
Nathan Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Rite Of Passage ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Children And Childhood ◽  
Bat Mitzvah ◽  
Contemporary Cinema

Despite the great importance Judaism places on children, childhood is a curiously overlooked topic in Jewish film and television studies. This chapter proposes to begin filling the gap by exploring how the universal theme of childhood has been represented in more specific ways, focusing on Jewish cinema specifically. By exploring a series of representations of children and childhood (sometimes Jewish, sometimes not) up to and including the age of 13, it examines films dealing with the child en route to adulthood through the key rite of passage of bar/bat mitzvah; the child as vulnerable and in need of protection, but whose childhood is brutally cut short during the Holocaust; and films in which childhood is not explicitly Jewish but can be read thus. Such representations consider the condition of children and childhood as a comment on the Jewish condition in contemporary society.

scholarly journals Immigration, Identity, and Genealogy: A Case Study

Genealogy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Thomas Daniel Knight
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Dna Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Immigration Assimilation ◽  
Birth Family ◽  
Deliberate Effort

This paper examines the life and experiences of a 19th-century immigrant from the British Isles to the United States and his family. It examines his reasons for immigrating, as well as his experiences after arrival. In this case, the immigrant chose to create a new identity for himself after immigration. Doing so both severed his ties with his birth family and left his American progeny without a clear sense of identity and heritage. The essay uses a variety of sources, including oral history and folklore, to investigate the immigrant’s origins and examine how this uncertainty shaped the family’s history in the 19th and 20th centuries. New methodologies centering on DNA analysis have recently offered insights into the family’s past. The essay ends by positing a birth identity for the family’s immigrant ancestor. Importantly, the family’s post-immigration experiences reveal that the immigrant and his descendants made a deliberate effort to retain aspects of their pre-immigration past across both time and distance. These actions underscore a growing body of literature on the limits of post-immigration assimilation by immigrants and their families, and indicate the value of genealogical study for analyzing the immigrant experience.

New Women in the New Drama

1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (21) ◽  
pp. 31-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
New Women ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The New Woman ◽  
New Drama ◽  
The University ◽  
Women Dramatists

While considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the work of women dramatists during the wave of proto-feminist activity in the early years of the present century, the way in which women characters – whether created by male or female writers – were presented has been less adequately investigated. Here, Jan McDonald, Head of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, explores the work of well-known and largely-forgotten playwrights alike, discussing the ways in which the ‘new drama’ – the subject of Jan McDonald's recent book for the ‘Macmillan Modern Dramatists’ series – reflected the concerns of the ‘new woman’.

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