This study focuses on young Polish viewers living in Vienna, the capital city of Austria, and their reception Turkish television series. is an under-researched audience group. The analysis gives voice to viewers’ comments through use semi-structured interviews gain deep insight into viewer experiences. introduces another, less-studied component by scrutinising ways which audiences deploy media ...

THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF GERMAN VICTIMHOOD IN POST-1990 POPULARGERMAN LITERATURE AND TELEVISIONby ANJA PAULINE EBERTAugust 2010Advisor: Dr. Anne RotheMajor: Modern LanguagesDegree: Doctor of Philosophy My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich andthe Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no long...

Previous scholarship on fashion and film has debated the aesthetic role played by onscreen costume. Yet there has been little exploration of fashion and its use in television. Existing work on fashion in onscreen media has approached the debate from a textual perspective, and such work has been informed by the longstanding assumption that fashion acts primarily as ‘spectacle’, disrupting the ec...

This paper presents a methodical approach for generating deep knowledge about users, as a prerequisite for design and construction of digital information access to cultural heritage information objects. We exemplify this methodical approach by reporting on an explorative study of information need characteristics in a television broadcast context. The methodical approach is inspired by naturalis...

This article discusses the reception of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali in Finnish media from 1960 to 1965, during emergence satellite broadcasting networks. The focus is especially on his two matches against Sonny Liston 1964 and which had particular cultural political resonance Finland. Alongside other European sports fans, Finns were able follow bouts via broadcasts, demonstrating not only transna...

Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) portrays the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, where Reinhard Heydrich chaired a meeting Germany’s ministers to co-ordinate “Final Solution.” Produced by public television network Bayerische Rundfunk (BR), is neither mere entertainment nor dry, unsubtle didactic film. Instead, it history in compelling and disturbing manner. The West German press, howeve...