Post-Identity Television: An Analysis

relationship between television and VOD (Video on Demand), specifically Netflix, and the shift to its in-house production and distribution of shows. The article also discusses the different periods of television, and whether we have landed in a new period - the era of TVIV. The show Arrested Development is analyzed, because it is a show that transitioned from network television to a Netflix produced and distributed show. The analyzation of the show then leads to a discussion of post-postmodernism and

Reading The X-Files on the DDEBRP’, Rhiannon Bury examines the interpretations of television show The X-Files and also its actors among a female-centric private forum group. As an observation of a virtual space, there is a hybridity of speech and text (Turkle 1995, Mckee and Porter 2008, Hine 2000) that gives the methodology an ethnographic approach but with a textual focus. Using discussion threads and texts posts, which are backed up with data gathered from questionnaires and e-interviews, she

The analysis on the construction and dissemination of cultural values, ideologies, and hierarchies is as varied as the historian. Again semantics and semiotics, important issues to understand the full web of the “word-concept” culture, dominate much of the theory and practice. The most common debates are over naming eras and redefining terms like popular, culture, popular culture, etc. Despite the debate, the historiography maintains four important foci for the construction of cultural values: industrialization

enhanced by a comparative study of identity in Pride and Prejudice and Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen? Identity is a multifaceted representation of one’s self as viewed by the individual and society and an exploration of identity in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Weldon’s epistolary Letters to Alice (1984) furthers our appreciation of the texts. Both texts reflect as well as challenge societal conventions present in their Regency and post-modern contexts respectively; as

have for the most part been civil on a political platform, yet on a broader scale perceptions of Germany have been dominated by images of the Second World War and Germany’s Nazi past. Television, alongside with other forms of popular culture offer an insight into this British obsession. Through the medium of television, Germans are represented by clichés, such as a lack of humour and German efficiency, or the resolute militaristic façade of a country planning to take over the world. Kronig (1999) appropriately

Introduction: The current paper focuses on the phenomenon that known as post-series affect. First, I will describe the relevant literature regarding the psychological and physiological effects of television. Then, I will discuss relevant literature on social identity theory in the context of the audience’s experience, and the non-exclusivity of emotions such as happiness and sadness. I will then discuss, conceptually, how post-series affect can be caused by various factors of a TV show. Finally, I

understand it as part of our identity, our history, our social institutions, and our everyday lives” (The Critical Media Project). Gender refers to the label an individual assign for themselves as distinguished from sex which refers to the biology of an individual. Gender is a social construct because it is something created and enforced by society. There is an abundance of gender identities, but the media tends to only focus on two: man and woman. These two gender identities have been associated with

This Assessment will be my personal reflection and analysis of contemporary issues raised for post-colonial Indigenous Australians through two programs on the National Indigenous Television station (NITV), Living Black and NITV News. I will reflect on how these issues have impacted on the relationships between Indigenous Australians and non-Indigenous Australians, and how Indigenous culture impacts 21st century Australia. Through this I will also consider my own feelings and opinions on how these

TELEVISION AND THE DOMESTICATION OF COSMETIC SURGERY ARTICLE BY- Sue Tait INTRODUCTION: Today, there are a number of reality series on television which make over “ordinary” people. Two such US produced shows are Extreme Makeover and Nip/Tuck. Extreme Makeover aired from 2002 to 2005 was the most successful of television’s surgical reality shows and Nip/Tuck which was on air from 2003 was the first drama series about cosmetic surgery. This article by Sue Tait throws light on how cosmetic surgery

evolutionary process. The idea of a post-racial society revolves around the ideology that the success point has been reached between “us and them”. Equality between races has become legislative law within the Charter of Human Rights and Freedom, which means the battle is over. This fantasy mentality is due the naturalized process of racism and racial discrimination (Hall, 272). Naturalized racism is especially dominant in aspects of pop culture including television, and movies. Racism has been commodified