The Morality of Television Genres: Norm Violations and Their Narrative Context in Four Popular Genres of Serial Fiction

Bilandzić, Helena; Hastall, Matthias R.; Sukalla, Freya

doi:10.1080/23736992.2017.1294488

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“…Not controlling for budget would not jeopardize our results because the year of release and genre should account for much of the variance in film success that can be explained by budget, given their relationships (i.e., certain genres and more recent years often entail higher production costs). Previous research has found differences among genres in the number of morally charged topics such as violence, deception, and friendship (Bilandzic et al, 2017). Consistent with Lewis et al (2017), we controlled for three genres: drama, action, and comedy, based on IMDb’s classification system.…”

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Moral Salience in Film Reviews Associated With Film Success

Huang,

Yang,

Zhu

2024

Journal of Media Psychology

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Moral reflection, a prevalent response to popular media, can play an important role in audience media appraisal. Employing a computational approach, this study examined the effect of moral salience in film reviews on film success. By analyzing moral words from the Moral Foundation Dictionary in a large corpus of approximately 1.6 million IMDb film reviews, we found that moral salience in reviews was strongly associated with film success. Specifically, the salience of moral foundations identified as care, fairness, loyalty, and authority was positively associated with audience ratings, popularity, and gross domestic revenue. These findings demonstrate the real-world implications of moral reflection and entertainment media appraisal postulated by entertainment media theories. This research also offers methodological insights for automated analysis of movie review data.

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Moral Salience in Film Reviews Associated With Film Success

Huang,

Yang,

Zhu

2024

Journal of Media Psychology

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“…Other studies focus on comparisons between different fictional genres (e.g., Bilandzic et al 2017;Krüger 2005) or compare the fictional depictions to the news media (e.g., Daalmans et al 2017;Nitsch et al 2021). Longitudinal studies are less common than cross-sectional, but give interesting insights into how the fictional depiction has changed (or remained stable) over time (e.g., Lichter et al 2000;Paasch-Colberg and Küfner 2012;Signorielli 1989a, b).…”

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Content Analysis in the Research Field of Fictional Entertainment

Nitsch

2022

Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in Der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research

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Fictional entertainment accounts for a large share of the overall media content and is very popular with the audience. It is highly diverse in form and content, and differs, for example, regarding media type, genre, and target group. Fictional entertainment comprises novels (e.g., thriller, romance), comic books, TV series (e.g., crime series, daily soaps, medical shows, political drama), children’s programs, feature films, cartoons, box office hits, audio plays, etc. Research on fictional entertainment typically concentrates on audiovisual productions, i.e. TV series and movies.

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“…Also, moral prescriptions on behavior and expression were common in many manuals from the 16th to the 18th century [4]. The conveyance of morality through language has occurred in more recent forms of narration, such as movies [5,6] and TV series [7,8]. The relevance of TV series in the transmission of moral features is especially pertinent due to their role in shaping popular culture and influencing viewers' perceptions and attitudes [9].…”

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Detecting Moral Features in TV Series with a Transformer Architecture through Dictionary-Based Word Embedding

Fantozzi,

Rotondi,

Rizzolli

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Moral features are essential components of TV series, helping the audience to engage with the story, exploring themes beyond sheer entertainment, reflecting current social issues, and leaving a long-lasting impact on the viewers. Their presence shows through the language employed in the plot description. Their detection helps regarding understanding the series writers’ underlying message. In this paper, we propose an approach to detect moral features in TV series. We rely on the Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) framework to classify moral features and use the associated MFT dictionary to identify the words expressing those features. Our approach combines that dictionary with word embedding and similarity analysis through a deep learning SBERT (Sentence-Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) architecture to quantify the comparative prominence of moral features. We validate the approach by applying it to the definition of the MFT moral feature labels as appearing in general authoritative dictionaries. We apply our technique to the summaries of a selection of TV series representative of several genres and relate the results to the actual content of each series, showing the consistency of results.

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The Morality of Television Genres: Norm Violations and Their Narrative Context in Four Popular Genres of Serial Fiction

Cited by 12 publications

References 38 publications

Moral Salience in Film Reviews Associated With Film Success

Moral Salience in Film Reviews Associated With Film Success

Content Analysis in the Research Field of Fictional Entertainment

Detecting Moral Features in TV Series with a Transformer Architecture through Dictionary-Based Word Embedding

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