Is There a Geography Genre on British Television?: Explorations of the Hinterland from <i>Coast</i> to <i>Countryfile</i>

Thompson, Felix

doi:10.7227/cst.5.1.7

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“…The documentary series studied in this article has some elements that resemble lifestyle television about the rural, with the motif of ‘living in the countryside’. In a review of various TV programmes about the British countryside—such as Countryfile (1988) or Coast (2005)—Felix Thompson (2010: 65) concluded that in these productions presenters act as guides who encourage consumers and tourists to visit beautiful places. Re-visiting studies of British lifestyle TV genres in the early 2000s reveals how this sort of televised ordinariness concealed a neoliberal individualism that empowered the agency of viewers and treated citizens as consumers (Brunson et al, 2001; Brunson, 2003; Taylor, 2002).…”

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Voices from the emptiness. Developing the agentic rural on Spanish television

Castelló

2023

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This article analyses rural representations in the documentary series Ruralitas (2020) on the Spanish TVE. The programme shows that the people living in the countryside have agency and do not conform to common rural stereotypes. Nevertheless, the stories flirt with ideas of the ‘rural idyll’ by focusing on the beauty of the landscape and traditional rural versus urban binaries. However, the series also develops what the author names an agentic rural. The agentic rural not only empowers countryside dwellers and portrays self-determined destinies in the countryside, but also highlights problems associated with depopulation.

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