Essays about: "television serial"

Found 3 essays containing the words television serial.

  1. 1. Subverting Nostalgia in Twin Peaks: The Return - Resistance and the Television Revival

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Charlie Berggren; [2021]
    Keywords : Twin Peaks: The Return 2017 ; Resistant nostalgia; Revival television; Nostalgia film; Vera Dika; David Lynch; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Twin Peaks (2017), also known as Twin Peaks: The Return, has a problematic relationship to its predecessor Twin Peaks (1990-1991). In this thesis, I argue that The Return represents the past by undermining a sense of pacifying nostalgia, instead highlighting the incongruity of its ostensible return. READ MORE

  2. 2. The straight guy who sleeps solely with men : A deep semiotic analysis of hegemonic parameters in the American television serial Empire

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Erik Welin; [2015]
    Keywords : homosubversity; representation; hegemony; ideology; homonormativity; heteronormativity; semiotics; discourse;

    Abstract : The study that follows is a deep semiotic analysis meant to shed a light on which ideologies the serial represents and communicates to its audience. In my analysis I have used the terms homonormativity and homosubversity to divide the different discursive codes and thus see if it was the former or the latter that the production of Empire preferred. READ MORE

  3. 3. Online Programming Realities : A Case Study of House of Cards and the Perceived Advantages Over Traditional Television

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Rebecca Hill; [2014]
    Keywords : House of Cards; Netflix; television serial; complex television; historical poetics; creative freedom; distribution; production; creation; production studies; revolutionary; post-network era;

    Abstract : The choice of content and number of technologies that audiences view television with are increasingly expanding in the post-network era, leading those who use the medium to question its definition. In the wake of the Internet, online programming and streaming technologies, the death of television is frequently forecast. READ MORE