Issues of judgement and value in television studies

Jacobs, Jason

doi:10.1177/136787790100400404

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“…Indeed, in moves that echo wider developments in the creation of 'quality television' (Jacobs, 2001), some TV comedy-makers have deliberately subverted the lowbrow theatrical aesthetic and artificial laughter track normally associated with sitcom (Mills, 2008: 124-146). Among the most influential of these formalistic innovations has been the adoption of mock-documentary aesthetics in sitcoms such as The Office (BBC, 2001(BBC, -2003, the development of a realist or naturalist approach in sitcoms such as The Royle Family (1998-Present) and finally the use of experimental narrative techniques in series like Peep Show (Channel 4, 2003-Present).…”

Section: The Changing Field Of British Comedymentioning

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The hidden tastemakers: Comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Friedman

2014

Poetics

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Responsible for selecting which new artists are brought to the public attention, talent scouts carry considerable influence in framing performing arts fields. Yet their practices are hidden from public view and how and why they select fledgling producers remains unexplored in cultural sociology. This article aims to demystify the work of such gatekeepers by examining temporary comedy scouts operating at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe is the world's biggest arts festival and a central tradefair for the British comedy field. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with nine comedy scouts, I examine the positions they occupy in the comedy field and, in turn, how this positioning affects which comedians they propel. I then interrogate the brokerage enacted by scouts. Centrally I argue that while some broker between artists and management, all scouts are implicated in mediating between artists and audiences. In particular, they act to intensify comedy taste boundaries, making judgments based on assumptions about imagined audiences and directing more legitimate comedians to privileged audiences and vice versa. In this way, scouts act as hidden tastemakers, intensifying the scarcity of certain tastes, and strengthening the ability of privileged audiences to use comedy in the claiming of cultural distinction.

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Section: The Changing Field Of British Comedymentioning

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The hidden tastemakers: Comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Friedman

2014

Poetics

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“…In the (to date) four articles that comprise the exchange between Matt Hills and Jason Jacobs (Hills, 2005(Hills, , 2011Jacobs, 2001Jacobs, , 2006, one passage around which disagreement has unfolded is the following, from Jacobs's initial article:…”

Section: Does Aesthetic Evaluation Necessarily Rely Upon Bad Textual mentioning

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Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social

Zborowski

2016

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This article seeks to intervene in the 'television aesthetics' versus 'media and cultural studies' debate. It argues that aesthetic evaluation does not necessarily rely upon bad textual others or result in canon construction. It engages with Bourdieu in order to demonstrate that his account of cultural capital and distinction is more nuanced than is suggested by its uptake by scholars who want to use it to argue against evaluative activity. Finally, it argues that television aesthetics cannot be divorced from media and cultural studies to the extent that some of its practitioners appear to want.

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“…Durante muito tempo, questões românticas desempenharam um papel secundário nos dramas médicos, em parte por conta das pressões exercidas pela American Medical Association, que pressionava os realizadores das séries a representar os médicos de forma positiva e profissional (Holoweiko, 1998;Jacobs, 2001). Somente após o sucesso da comédia médica MASH (CBS, 1972(CBS, -1983, focada na vida pessoal dos médicos e seus relacionamentos amorosos (Tapper, 2010), os dilemas românticos dos protagonistas médicos ganharam maior destaque.…”

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Dissecando fórmulas narrativas: drama profissional e melodrama nas séries médicas

Albuquerque¹,

Meimaridis²

2016

Fronteiras

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Este é um artigo de acesso aberto, licenciado por Creative Commons Atribuição 4.0 Internacional (CC-BY 4.0), sendo permitidas reprodução, adaptação e distribuição desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados. RESUMONo ano de 2015, mais de 400 séries roteirizadas foram exibidas na televisão americana. Nesse mar de produções encontra-se uma onipresença de workplace dramas, principalmente séries médicas. Este artigo se propõe analisar as razões por trás dessa ubiquidade através de uma análise interdisciplinar das séries televisivas. Argumentamos que a fecundidade se deve a uma estrutura facilmente reproduzível, a qual é elaborada em torno do desequilíbrio entre um mundo comum -representado pela vida cotidiana dos personagens e ordenado por códigos melodramáticos, e um mundo extraordinário -o qual é construído a partir da influência da instituição médica, tanto real quanto ficcional, e serve de base às narrativas profissionais.Palavras-chave: dramas médicos, televisão, ficção seriada. ABSTRACTIn 2015 there were more than 400 scripted shows on American television. In this sea of productions, there is a constant presence of workplace dramas, especially medical series. This article aims to analyze the reasons behind this ubiquity through an interdisciplinary analysis of television series. We argue that this fertility is due to an easily reproducible framework, which is structured around the imbalance between a common world -represented by the everyday lives of the characters and ordered by melodramatic codes, and an extraordinary world -which is established with the influence of the medical institution, both real and fictional, and provides the basis for professional narratives.

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Issues of judgement and value in television studies

Cited by 54 publications

References 4 publications

The hidden tastemakers: Comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The hidden tastemakers: Comedy scouts as cultural brokers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Television aesthetics, media and cultural studies and the contested realm of the social

Dissecando fórmulas narrativas: drama profissional e melodrama nas séries médicas

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