Broadcasting the body: affect, embodiment and bodily excess on contemporary television

In recent years television has seen a notable increase in evocative images of the human body subject to exploration and manipulation.Taking the increasing viscerality of television’s body images as a starting point, the work presented in this thesis asserts the importance of considering television viewing as an embodied experience. Through a focus on displays of the body across a range of television formats this thesis demonstrates the significance and complexity of viewers’ affective and embodied engagements with the medium and offers an alternative to accounts of television which are focussed only on the visual, narrative or semiotic aspects of television aesthetics. This work challenges approaches to television which understand the pleasures of looking at the body as simply an exercise in power by considering the role of the body in fostering the sharing of affect, specifically through feelings of intimacy, shame and erotic pleasure. Additionally, the research presented here accounts for and situates the tendency toward bodily display that I have described in terms of traditional television aesthetics and in relation to conditions within the television industry in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rather than considering the trend toward exposing the body as a divergence from traditional television, this thesis argues that body-oriented television is a distinctly televisual phenomenon, one that implicates the bodies onscreen and the bodies of viewers located in domestic space in its attempts to breach the limitations of the screen, making viewers feel both intimately and viscerally connected to the people, characters and onscreen worlds that television constructs for us. The methodological approach taken in this thesis is based on close textual analysis informed by a focus on affect and embodiment. This thesis relies on the author’s own embodied engagement with televisual texts as well as detailed formal analyses of the programmes themselves. In order to understand the place of explicit body images on television this thesis engages with a broad range of contemporary debates in the field of television studies and with the cannon of television studies. This thesis is also deeply informed by writing about affect developed in film studies and studies of reality television. This thesis is structured around a set of case studies which each explore different dimensions of the trend toward bodily excess across a broad range of genres including reality television, science programming and the drama series. The chapters in this thesis are organised around four tendencies or modes related to traditional television aesthetics: Intimacy, community, public education and melodrama. Each of these case studies examines how the affective body capitalises upon and extends the traditional pleasures of television through an affective appeal to the body

Dickens extra-illustrated: heads and scenes in monthly parts (The Case of Nicholas Nickleby)

As a practice that interleaves extraneous materials within the pages of a book, extra-illustration unbinds the volume form and undermines the autonomy of the literary and of the act of reading. I concentrate on Charles Dickens's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39) and sets of extra-illustrations by Peter Palette (pseud, for Thomas Onwhyn) and Miss La Creevy (pseud, for Kenny Meadows). Taking advantage of the material and temporal aspects of serialization, these extra-illustrations rearticulate the act of reading in a way that emphasizes the place of Victorian literature in a culture of viewing and collecting

Spartan Daily, May 21, 1937

Volume 25, Issue 139https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/2623/thumbnail.jp

Volume 12, Number 2- December 1931

Volume 12, Number 2 – December 1931. 32 pages including covers and advertisements. Who\u27s Who in the Alembic A Christmas Message from the Dean Harrison, George F. A Reply to \u27An Open Letter to a Freshman\u27 McDonald, Martin J. The Time Element Enters Lilly, Daniel The Egotist\u27s Soliloquy McDonough, John Stella Matutina Norback, Howard G. P.C. Personalities: Mickey Foster Hoban, Albert J. Release Shunny, Walter J. Chiaroscuro Considine, George L. A Transitional Painter Haylon, William D. The Checkerboard O\u27Neill, Matthew F. The Alumni Corner Tebbetts, George Athletic

The Last Word

The last word, as defined by Webster\u27s dictionary, describes the final remark in a verbal exchange, the power of a final decision, a definitive statement or treatment, and the most advanced, up-to-date, or fashionable exemplar of its kind. I venture to explore and utilize the meaning of this well-known idiom through the creation of visual artworks that comprise my Master of Fine Art thesis research. Within this body of visual artworks, titled The Last Word, I explore the evolution and realization of self-image through the examination of disparate and reciprocal relationships. Utilizing personal symbolic imagery, provocative text and mixed media processes, I present my last word about my own self-image. This written support paper chronicles the evolution of The Last Word, correlating the creative process with historical and theoretical scholarship

Life Lessons with Atreus and Chloe: Mature Video Games as Opportunity Spaces for Family Conversations

The effects of childhood and adolescent exposure to mature video games has been a recurring topic in popular culture as well as academic research for many years. While many studies have been conducted, a consensus has not been reached. Video games have been shown,however,to play a positive role in family togetherness and act as an opportunity space to encourage family discussion. Through a review of the literature, this article argues that mature video games can serve as opportunity spaces for families with older children and teens. A case study in which the M-rated video games,Life is Strange: Before the Storm (2017) and God of War (2018) were played in a parent-child context is then presented to demonstrate how these games were able to stimulate discussion of important developmental topics

The EU, the US, and Trade Policy: Competitive Interdependence in the Management of Globalization

Competitive interdependence marked the European Union (EU) - United States (US) relationship as the GATT/ World Trade Organization (WTO) was strengthened and as each enlarged its territorial sphere of influence. The EU initially expanded its influence outside Europe by granting nonreciprocal preferences to the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states while the US subsequently used the WTO to force the EU-ACP relationship into WTO-compliance. Adopting regional and bilateral strategies, the US negotiated NAFTA and Latin American and Asian free trade agreements. The US thereby expanded its sphere of influence. The EU responded by negotiating equivalent free trade agreements in both Latin America and Asia. As it expands its territorial sphere of influence, the EU may now be managing globalization by outstripping the US. The US-EU relationship thus is marked by both competition and interdependence

Miscellany

Art Literature Roy F. Powell Creditshttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/miscell/1001/thumbnail.jp

Comm-entary, Spring 2010 - Full Issue

In this issue: Voluntary Surveillance: Privacy, Identity and the Rise of Social Panopticism in the Twenty-First Century by Jake Nevrla Dialogic Advancements in Psychotherapy by Michelle Laffoon Corey Johnson: A Football Captain and a Gay Male by Nina DiCenso Dexter: Multiple Personalities by Dustin Somero Intersexuality in Women’s Sports: The Case of Caster Semenya by Kayla Timmons Perspectives: The Culture of Underage Drinking at UNH by Sabrina Clark, Kelley Stenberg, Hope Fortier, & Camille Quarles Performing Maternity: Limiting the Role of the Individual Woman in Abortion Discourses by Katie Ramsay The Mass Media Deity: the Repercussions of Barack Obama’s Campaign Coverage by Corey Nachman The World’s First Pregnant Man by Samantha Bell Media in the Digital Generation by Aaron Mohammed Internet’s Rise to Power by Katie Relihan Facebook and Interpersonal Relationships by Kimberly Rogers A Healthy Look at Social Media by Andrew Hennessy Internet Culture: Popular Culture by the People by Kendra Mack The Pros and Cons of Facebook by Chelsea Bumgarne