When Cultural Criticism Blurs Cultural Hierarchies

Béliard, Anne-Sophie

doi:10.1080/17512786.2015.1051373

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“…At the heart of this process is the concept of 'quality TV' which is identified, in general, with serialized TV dramas (Newman and Levine, 2012). Identification of a 'quality TV' series, which is often regarded as artistic and demonstrating 'good taste,' was the project of media scholars such as Robert Thompson (1997) and Jason Mittell (2015), and of mediators such as local and global newspaper television reviewers (Janssen et al, 2011;Beliard, 2015;Lavie and Dhoest, 2015). Mittell (2015) and Thompson (1997), outlined various definitions of 'quality TV' series.…”

Section: Taste Distinction and Quality Tvmentioning

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“…As explained above, Netflix successfully used the constructed artistic halo of the 'quality TV' series (Beliard, 2015) specifically to market its content. Since then, Netflix has become a distributor and producer of a growing number of series, pre-branded as being of 'quality.'…”

Section: Netflix Quality Tv and Binge-watchingmentioning

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“…As explained above, Netflix successfully used the constructed artistic halo of the ‘quality TV’ series (Beliard, 2015) specifically to market its content. Since then, Netflix has become a distributor and producer of a growing number of series, pre-branded as being of ‘quality.’ Many of these, including Israeli TV series on Netflix, are labeled as being of quality basically for being in a foreign language (Grandinetti, 2017: 11), that is, not in English.…”

Section: Introduction: Israel As An Exporter Of Quality Tv In the Age...mentioning

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The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix: The cases of Fauda and Shtisel

Lavie

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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This study investigates how the concept of ‘quality TV’ is evolving in the age of streaming video on demand (SVOD) platforms, using reviews of two Israeli TV series on Netflix – Fauda and Shtisel. In accordance with Pierre Bourdieu’s view of journalistic reviewers as social agents and intermediaries with the power to enshrine cultural artifacts in an artistic canon, the study is based on a qualitative analysis of reviews of these two series published on major Anglo-American journalistic platforms. The analysis shows how the reviewers take part in constructing the Netflix brand of ‘a ‘foreign-language quality TV’ series.

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The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix: The cases of Fauda and Shtisel

Lavie

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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“…In this special issue, we approach the association of cultural journalism and cultural critique not as oppositional, incompatible concepts but as mutually dependent parts of a complex equation: while cultural journalism is in some contexts more likely to take shape as intellectual and reflective criticism of culture and society, e.g. when cartoons in the cultural section put ideologies and freedom rights to the test, cultural critique or critical-analytical journalistic discourses, for example in specialised magazines, may provide legitimacy for the cultural journalistic exploration of popular consumerist culture such as television series (Baumann 2001(Baumann , 2007Béliard 2015). In fact, historically there have been close connections between cultural journalism and cultural critique: cultural critique has been scrutinised by scholars for many years from within a variety of disciplines with an emphasis on the news media, or cultural journalism, as one of several important institutional frameworks for the practice of cultural critique (e.g., Bordwell 1991;Said 1984).…”

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Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in a changing Media Landscape

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2015

Journalism Practice

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This special issue addresses a topic of journalism studies that has previously been somewhat neglected but which has gained increasing scholarly attention since the mid-2000s: the coverage and evaluation of art and culture, or what we term "cultural journalism and cultural critique." In this introduction, we highlight three issues that serve to frame the study of cultural journalism and cultural critique more generally and the eight articles of this special issue more specifically: (1) the constant challenge of demarcating cultural journalism and cultural critique, including the interrelations of "journalism" and "critique"; (2) the dialectic of globalisation's cultural homo-genisation, on the one hand, and the specificity of local/national cultures, on the other; and (3) the digital media landscape seen in terms of the need to rethink, perhaps even redefine cultural journalism and cultural critique. KEYWORDS cultural critics; cultural critique; cultural journalism; digital journalism; digital media; news production Introduction: Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique as Emerging Research Areas Politics, art, and culture have since the introduction of newspapers in Western societies been covered sideby-side by various and more or less critical writers, of which journalists were just one variety. However, journalism research has a long tradition of prioritising political journalism and news media, primarily as a political public sphere. Likewise, political journalism increasingly came to set the agenda in the newsrooms and in journalism education during the twentieth century. This political leaning in both research and practice is closely linked to the professional and normative ideal or ideology of Western journalism, an ideal that stipulates an autonomous, objective, and versatile press, performing the role of society's watchdog and addressing urgent events and issues of societal importance as a constituent element of democracy (e.g., Curran 2011; Deuze 2005). Thus in many ways the political bias is fully justified. One consequence, however, has been the neglect by scholars of the news media's coverage of "softer" issues such as art, culture, lifestyle, "life politics" (Giddens 1992), and the cultural public spherewhat we, in this special issue, term "cultural journalism." In much the same way, journalists covering these issues have consistently had to defend their work to their peers and the public (see Harries and Wahl-Jorgensen 2007; Hovden and Knapskog 2015). This scholarly inattention as well as the professional need for justification are striking in light of the fact that these topics have become increasingly important parts of news production during the twentieth century and are today covered intensively (e.g., Janssen, Kuipers, and Verboord 2008; Kristensen and From 2011). When occasionally addressed by scholars, these topics have typically been analysed in relation to political journalism. Political journalism has been viewed as the proper kind of journalism, "the real journalism" (Deuze 2005, 444), ...

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Making Money from TV Series: From Viewer to Webmaster with Financial Rewards

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2019

The Social Meaning of Extra Money

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When Cultural Criticism Blurs Cultural Hierarchies

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Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix: The cases of Fauda and Shtisel

The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix: The cases of Fauda and Shtisel

Cultural Journalism and Cultural Critique in a changing Media Landscape

Making Money from TV Series: From Viewer to Webmaster with Financial Rewards

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