Television And Precarity
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Television And Precarity
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Author : Jasmin Humburg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-03-06
Television And Precarity written by Jasmin Humburg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jasmin Humburg provides evidence of naturalist narrative strategies, tropes, and character variations in six contemporary American television series: The Wire, Tremé, Shameless, Ozark, Orange is the New Black and 2 Broke Girls. The author investigates how poverty is negotiated through classic literary naturalism and contemporary televisual articulations, and how the latter may have been influenced by the former in the age of the Great Recession. By connecting literary studies, television studies, and concepts of social mobility, this project contributes to the field of new poverty studies.
Mapping Precarity In Contemporary Cinema And Television
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Author : Francesco Sticchi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Mapping Precarity In Contemporary Cinema And Television written by Francesco Sticchi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
This book examines a corpus of films and TV series released since the global financial crisis, addressing them as emblematic expressions of our age of precarity. The analysis of the motifs and characters of these case studies is built around notions originating from Mikhail Bakhtin's literary theory and, in particular, the concept of chronotope, affirming the material and dynamic connection between form and content in artistic experience. This book observes how precarious lives are enacted in forms of spatio-temporal compositions which carry conceptual and ethical challenges for their viewers. This book falls within the film-philosophy framework and, although primarily directed to an academic audience, it provides an interdisciplinary account of the notion of cinematic precarity. It puts the embodied analysis of viewers' ethical participation in close dialogical relationship with a philosophical and sociological examination of current dynamics of inequality and exclusion.
Newswork And Precarity
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Author : Kalyani Chadha
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Newswork And Precarity written by Kalyani Chadha and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry. In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work harder for less money, and few countries are proactive in alleviating the precarity of journalists. Newswork and Precarity is a valuable addition to an important still-emerging area in journalism studies that will be of interest to both professionals and scholars of journalism, media studies, sociology, and labor history.
Mapping Precarity In Contemporary Cinema And Television
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Author : Francesco Sticchi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-02-11
Mapping Precarity In Contemporary Cinema And Television written by Francesco Sticchi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-11 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines a corpus of films and TV series released since the global financial crisis, addressing them as emblematic expressions of our age of precarity. The analysis of the motifs and characters of these case studies is built around notions originating from Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory and, in particular, the concept of chronotope, affirming the material and dynamic connection between form and content in artistic experience. This book observes how precarious lives are enacted in forms of spatio-temporal compositions which carry conceptual and ethical challenges for their viewers. This book falls within the film-philosophy framework and, although primarily directed to an academic audience, it provides an interdisciplinary account of the notion of cinematic precarity. It puts the embodied analysis of viewers’ ethical participation in close dialogical relationship with a philosophical and sociological examination of current dynamics of inequality and exclusion.
Precarious Creativity
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Author : Michael Curtin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-02-17
Precarious Creativity written by Michael Curtin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with Social Science categories.
At free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others. The authors take on pressing conceptual and methodological issues while also providing insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regarding creativity, collaboration, exploitation, and cultural difference. Furthermore, it examines working conditions and organizing efforts on all six continents, offering broad-ranging and comprehensive analysis of contemporary screen media labor in such places as Lagos, Prague, Hollywood, and Hyderabad. The collection also examines labor conditions across a range of job categories that includes, for example, visual effects, production services, and adult entertainment. With contributions from such leading scholars as John Caldwell, Vicki Mayer, Herman Gray, and Tejaswini Ganti, Precarious Creativity offers timely critiques of media globalization while also intervening in broader debates about labor, creativity, and precarity.
Horrible White People
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Author : Taylor Nygaard
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Horrible White People written by Taylor Nygaard and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Social Science categories.
Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white fragility spread across television screens. American and British programming that featured the abjection of young, middle-class, liberal white people—such as Broad City, Casual, You’re the Worst, Catastrophe, Fleabag, and Transparent—proliferated to wide popular acclaim in the 2010s. Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey track how these shows of the white left, obsessed with its own anxiety and suffering, are complicit in the rise and maintenance of the far right—particularly in the mobilization, representation, and sustenance of structural white supremacy on television. Nygaard and Lagerwey examine a cycle of dark television comedies, the focus of which are “horrible white people,” by putting them in conversation with similar upmarket comedies from creators and casts of color like Insecure, Atlanta, Dear White People, and Master of None. Through their analysis, they demonstrate the ways these non-white-centric shows negotiate prestige TV’s dominant aesthetics of whiteness and push back against the centering of white suffering in a time of cultural crisis. Through the lens of media analysis and feminist cultural studies, Nygaard and Lagerwey’s book opens up new ways of looking at contemporary television consumption—and the political, cultural, and social repercussions of these “horrible white people” shows, both on- and off-screen.
Narrating Poverty And Precarity In Britain
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Author : Barbara Korte
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Narrating Poverty And Precarity In Britain written by Barbara Korte and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their attention between current representations of poverty and important earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today. The book's contributions discuss the representation of social suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability, the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism, potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a close reading of texts.
Media And Class
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Author : June Deery
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-10-16
Media And Class written by June Deery and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with Social Science categories.
Although the idea of class is again becoming politically and culturally charged, the relationship between media and class remains understudied. This diverse collection draws together prominent and emerging media scholars to offer readers a much-needed orientation within the wider categories of media, class, and politics in Britain, America, and beyond. Case studies address media representations and media participation in a variety of platforms, with attention to contemporary culture: from celetoids to selfies, Downton Abbey to Duck Dynasty, and royals to reality TV. These scholarly but accessible accounts draw on both theory and empirical research to demonstrate how different media navigate and negotiate, caricature and essentialize, or contain and regulate class.
Class Divisions In Serial Television
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Author : Sieglinde Lemke
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-12-21
Class Divisions In Serial Television written by Sieglinde Lemke and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-21 with Performing Arts categories.
This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV’s intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to grapple with previously invisible socio-economic realities but also to reconsider their class alignment. The stereotypical ways of framing class are now supplemented by those dedicated to exposing the economic and socio-psychological burdens of the (lower) middle class. The case studies in this book demonstrate how sophisticated narrative techniques coincide with equally complex ways of exposing class divisions in contemporary American life and how the examined shows disrupt the hegemonic order of class. The volume therefore also invites a rethinking of conventional models of social stratification.
Precarity Public Value And Power Economies The Effects Of Industrial Change On Small Screen Content Creators A View From Behind The Lens
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Author : Richard Jasek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Precarity Public Value And Power Economies The Effects Of Industrial Change On Small Screen Content Creators A View From Behind The Lens written by Richard Jasek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
The screen industry in Australia is undergoing upheaval; arguably its largest since the inception of broadcasting in the early twentieth century. Technology, audience behaviour and industry business models are being transformed by national and transnational factors, while government regulation struggles to keep pace. The consequences for creative practitioners are considerable, and include increased precarity and reduced creative agency. This exegesis is designed to illuminate the practical outcomes of industrial change at ground level with particular focus on the small screen, through an examination of a case study: the television arts documentary, Getting Their Acts Together (Jasek 2020), made by this author for Australia's national public service broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). -- This 'insider account' commences with a macro-level analysis placing contemporary industry conditions into historical context. Included is discussion of the rise and decline of 'nationing', a term coined by Rowe, Turner & Waterton (2018) to describe the development of national culture through the use of cultural policy; and challenges to the role of public broadcasting whose remit is to foster culturally representative work with public benefit. It shows that forces acting on practitioners now are direct outcomes of conditions set at the beginnings of Australian broadcasting, accounting for their depth and pervasiveness, and include an intertwining of cultural and economic goals which operate to the detriment of the former. -- The exegesis proceeds to a meso-level illumination of the effects of industrial change at the level of organisations and labour. As the program mix and business models of free-to-air television have been disrupted by the arrival of digital technologies and streaming services, analysis shows increased levels of precarity for production companies and individual practitioners, despite frequent industry rhetoric to the contrary. Documentary for public service broadcasters (PSBs), especially the ABC, has assumed increased importance for filmmakers seeking to create culturally representative work, a point highlighted by examination of funding models that favour documentary with social benefit. Comparison is made between PSBs in Australia and other Western liberal democracies (especially the UK's BBC), who rely increasingly on commercial metrics to justify their existence, putting them at odds with their public service remits and the creative artists engaged to service those remits. This leads to discussion of a theory of creative opposition at times of industrial change drawing on the work of Dwyer (2019b) and Bourdieu (1996); a power dynamic at the heart of this exegesis. -- The outworkings are demonstrated at micro-level through detailed examination of conditions encountered during production of the case study. They will show that conflict between economic metrics and social benefit has come to lie at the heart of the ABC's present operations; and that this conflict is having corrosive effects on practitioners' creative autonomy. -- The exegesis concludes with reflections regarding tensions between economics and creative agency, the 'valuation of value', and the links between aesthetic vitality, diversity of cultural forms, and the health of the public sphere.
