Material cultures of television

Research indicates that deaf children can have marked social difficulties compared with their hearing peers. Factors that influence these social interactions need to be reviewed to inform interventions. A systematic search of 5 key databases and 3 specialized journals identified 14 papers that met the inclusion criteria. Methodological quality of the articles was assessed using an adapted checklist. There was a general lack of consensus across studies. The main factors investigated were the deaf child’s communication competency, age, and level of mainstreaming, which overall were positively associated with peer interactions. Some studies also found that females were more likely to have positive social interactions. The majority of studies were cross-sectional. Some studies lacked appropriate control groups and did not recruit an appropriate range of informants. A wide range of factors were associated with social interactions between deaf and hearing children. The role of communication gained the highest consensus across studies. Other factors were involved in more complex interactions

Flog it!: nostalgia and lifestyle on British daytime television

Nostalgia, as has long been recognized, can have a powerful impact on the construction and reception of screen texts (e.g., Boym, 2001; Cardwell, 2002; Cook, 2005; Higson, 1993, 2003; Monk and Sargeant, 2002). Closely linked to the processes of memory production, it has become an important way of analysing the way in which representations of the past assume historically and nationally specific functions. While often associated with a kind of cultural conservatism, nostalgia has also been recognized as a legitimate part of historical narratives and an integral aspect of the act of remembering. As such, different ways of analysing its impact on British primetime television have emerged, going beyond its often-discussed manifestation in the heritage film and incorporating the many different forms in which representations of the past and history appear on the screen, as well as programmes that deliberately play with a nostalgia for television as a medium. These programmes1 often explicitly play with notions of personal and public memory and nostalgia in ways which contextualize them not only historically and culturally but also institutionally through a deliberate address and meshing of private memory and a more public sense of collective remembered experience (e.g., Holdsworth, 2008, pp. 137-44)

Victorians on screen: The nineteenth century on British television, 1994-2005

© Iris Kleinecke-Bates 2014. All rights reserved. Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity

Television style/stylish television: Mad Men, television and the fashioning of the self

Mad Men utilizes television, quotes television and contemplates and negotiates its role, to the extent that the show is also about television, mediating it as diegetic and non-diegetic, within and without, deliberately returning to the medium's early days in memory and celebration of itself and its origin, all the while making full use of the various media platforms that it has at its disposal today to promote itself and construct itself as a nostalgic object of desire. Part of a television experience that fetishizes the materiality of authentic objects, the show constructs a mise en abyme of longing and nostalgia that positions the television set at its very centre. This article will trace the role of television in AMC's Mad Men (2007-15). It will examine the medium's developing role in modern life, and the way it is used to integrate the show's narrative within a wider sense of history. Moreover, it will contemplate the way the medium is constructed both within the diegetic reality of the show and outside it, as authentic period prop and as a fetishized nostalgia object that is itself again framed and distributed by television

Victorian realities : representations of the Victorian age on 1990s British television

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Heritage, history, and gardening: The Victorian Kitchen Garden (BBC/Sveringes television 2, 1987) and the representation of the Victorian age as cultural homeland

This article examines the representation of the past on British television. As a response to the perennial popularity of history programming, debates about authenticity and truth in relation to television's rendering of history have been particularly active in recent years. These debates are considered here through an exploration of the historical, socio‐cultural but also medium‐specific context of the representation of history. Through a study of the 1987 BBC series The Victorian Kitchen Garden, these issues are explored in relation to the heritage movement, television genres and shifts in modes of address that indicate a hybrid generic identity which transcends boundaries and is suggestive in its implications for our understanding not of only 1980s heritage and history programming but also of a subgenre of reality television

Flog it!: nostalgia and lifestyle on British daytime television

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