Disability in television crime drama: Transgression and access

Radical Television Drama Introduction

The origins of this issue reside in a season of television dramas, entitled ‘United Kingdom!: Radical Television Drama Before and During Thatcher’, that ran at BFI Southbank from November to December 2009. The season was conceived by members of staff (Susanna Capon, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and Rob Turnock) in the Department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and was jointl...

Flaws bug television gene drama

MEDIAWATCH: Rejection of scientific advice by the writers of a BBC thriller based on the consequences of genetic modification of wheat with an antibiotic-resistance gene renders the plot absurd, writes Bernard Dixon.

Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama

Virginity loss narratives in "teen drama" television programs.

"Teen drama" television programs use sexual scripts that provide a framework for narrating virginity loss (Gagnon & Simon, 1973). Drawing on the work of Carpenter (2005), this study identifies the following sexual scripts in virginity-loss narratives: (a) the abstinence script, which places a high value on virginity and emphasizes delaying virginity loss; (b) the urgency script, which defines v...

gender stereotypings in iranian television drama(mar.2004-mar.2005)

: one of the main classifications in human societies is based on sex. although this kind of classification is originated from the physiology of human being but it can result in some stereotypes about men and women. stereotypes are traits which can be attributed to all members of a group without considering the differences between them. in other words stereotypes are part of the thoughts and bel...