Speculative cuteness. Adventures of ideas in Adventure Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Czemiel
Keyword(s):  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Speculative Philosophy ◽  
Adequate Response ◽  
Social Anxieties ◽  
Popular Television

The article examines Cartoon Network’s popular television series "Adventure Time," attempting to demonstrate that the show’s use of cuteness is highly subversive and can be interpreted as an attempt to problematize accepted notions of childishness and maturity. Its cute design may be viewed as a way in which social anxieties of so-called millennials find proper expression. At the same time, it could announce the necessity to develop new sensibilities that would form an adequate response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. To conceptualize these issues, the article utilizes the philosophical theories of Alfred North Whitehead (speculative philosophy) and Catherine Malabou (brain plasticity).

Voice Change in Pop Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-132
Author(s):  
Bridget Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Pop Culture ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Voice Change ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Music Television ◽  
Adolescent Voice ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
The Way

The chapter discusses the way popular understanding and misunderstanding of voice change is largely perpetuated by mainstream media. Portrayals of voice change distributed via music, television, and movies have contributed to a simulacrum of adolescent voice change, a situated reality not based in fact but accepted in pop culture. The generally embraced perception of voice change is that it is a time of humiliation, anxiety, turmoil, and dread. Voice change is not always pleasant, but students and music educators perceive and approach the experience with such angst and trepidation well before it begins that is rarely given the opportunity to be something positive or exciting. The chapter examines and distills episodes of The Brady Bunch, The Wonder Years, and The Goldbergs, popular television series that spanned a period of more than 40 years, each with an episode focused on the adolescent changing voice.

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.

Target Audience Reach of the Sida Dans La Cité AIDS Prevention Television Series in C⊚te D'ivoire

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Shapiro ◽  
Dominique Meekers
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Elevated Risk ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Intervention Area ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Immunodeficiency Syndrome

This paper uses sample survey data to examine the reach of SIDA dans la Cité (SDLC), a popular television series on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. Within the intervention area where SDLC was televised, the program targeted those with an elevated risk of contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and those with low socioeconomic status who were likely to have limited access to health information and services. The results indicate that in electrified regions, the SDLC program achieved very good reach among the elevated-risk groups and moderate to good reach among the low socioeconomic status groups. The finding that rural populations obtain AIDS information overwhelmingly from radio and television implies that televised HIV prevention information can play a crucial role in electrified rural regions.

scholarly journals “But in the Thunder, I Still Hear Thor”: The Character Athelstan as a Narrative Focal Point in the Series Vikings

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Margaret Steenbakker
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Television Series ◽  
World Views ◽  
Negative Picture ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Medieval Christianity ◽  
Eventual Death ◽  
The Way

This article explores the way the character Athelstan serves as a narrative focal point in the popular television series Vikings. Using this series as its main case study, it addresses the question of the ways in which the character functions as a synthesis between the two opposing world views of Christianity and Norse religion that are present in the series. After establishing that Vikings is a prime example of the trend to romanticize Viking culture in popular culture, I will argue that while the character Athelstan functions as a narrative focal point in which the worlds can be united and are united for a while, his eventual death when he has reverted back to Christianity shows that the series ultimately favors Viking culture and paints a very negative picture of (medieval) Christianity indeed.

scholarly journals Between neo-Ottomanism and Ottomania: navigating state-led and popular cultural representations of the past

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 33-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Ergin ◽  
Yağmur Karakaya
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ottoman History ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Popular Television ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractIn contemporary Turkey, a growing interest in Ottoman history represents a change in both the official state discourse and popular culture. This nostalgia appropriates, reinterprets, decontextualizes, and juxtaposes formerly distinct symbols, ideas, objects, and histories in unprecedented ways. In this paper, we distinguish between state-led neo-Ottomanism and popular cultural Ottomania, focusing on the ways in which people in Turkey are interpellated by these two different yet interrelated discourses, depending on their social positions. As the boundary between highbrow and popular culture erodes, popular cultural representations come to reinterpret and rehabilitate the Ottoman past while also inventing new insecurities centering on historical “truth.” Utilizing in-depth interviews, we show that individuals juxtapose the popular television seriesMuhteşem Yüzyıl(The Magnificent Century) with what they deem “proper” history, in the process rendering popular culture a “false” version. We also identify four particular interpretive clusters among the consumers of Ottomania: for some, the Ottoman Empire was the epitome of tolerance, where different groups lived peacefully; for others, the imperial past represents Turkish and/or Islamic identities; and finally, critics see the empire as a burden on contemporary Turkey.

Communication, Values, and Popular Television Series

1974 ◽  
Vol VIII (3) ◽  
pp. 589-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Chesebro ◽  
Caroline D. Hamsher
Keyword(s):  
Television Series ◽  
Popular Television

scholarly journals There's alcohol in my soap: portrayal and effects of alcohol use in a popular television series

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. J. van Hoof ◽  
M. D. T. de Jong ◽  
B. M. Fennis ◽  
J. F. Gosselt
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Popular Television
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