Afterword: Reading Mad Men in the era of Trump by McNally, Karen, Forde, Teresa

The political is personal: disturbing form, revisiting liberalism and resisting Trump's America in The Good Fight by McNally, Karen

Une guerre sans fin ? L’utopie, la famille, et le monde post 11-Septembre dans Doctor Who de Russel T. Davies by Alec Charles

“…Davies’s program has announced in its themes, settings, and allusions an unusually direct engagement with contemporary politics : specifically, the repercussions of the Al-Qaeda strikes of September 11, 2001. Like American television’s Heroes and Battlestar Galactica, the new Doctor Who argues against the totalizing strategies advanced by both sides in the war on terror, denouncing violent modes of pseudo-Utopian fundamentalism in favor of pluralist and personal solutions to global problems. …”
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Towards a Queer Futurity: New Trans Television by Ralph J. Poole

“…While gay and lesbian characters have a steady presence in American television series by now, this is not the case with transgender persons. …”
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Doppio sogno. L’exploit della pornografia audiovisiva attraverso la fantasia by Enrico Biasin

“…In particular, through the analysis of three neo-Victorian key texts – Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ripper Street (episode I Need Light) and Penny Dreadfull (episode Séance) –, the goal is to detect the “conditions of possibility” of pornography, considered as a cultural form, in the context of mass entertaiment related to mainstrem cinema and Anglo-American television series. The notion of fantasy, mainly studied in the field of psychoanalysis, is taken as a theoretical reference point in order to frame audiovisual pornography in terms of ideology (the codification of a cultural phenomenon), dispositif (its perceptual structuring) and narration (the grammar underlying it). …”
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La legge e la giustizia in TV. <i>The Wire</i> a confronto con <i>CSI</i> e <i>Ally McBeal</i> by Gianluigi Rossini

“…This theme is pursued in the context of American television series of great success such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CBS, 2000-) and Ally McBeal (Fox, 1997-2002) . …”
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Unveiling the Language Techniques Behind the Pragmatic Meaning of Sarcasm in American Confrontational Film Discourse by D. S. Pleshkova

“…Specifically, the study focuses on how sarcastic statements are used in American television series to heighten emotional engagement and aesthetic appeal. …”
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Food discourse of celebrity chefs of Food Network by Matwick, Kelsi, Matwick, Keri

“…It shows how the discourse of television cooking shows on the American television channel Food Network conveys a pseudo-relationship between the celebrity chef host and viewers. …”
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Alf (NBC, 1986-1990) : Quand la sitcom devient subversive by Jean Du Verger

“…It serves as a revealing mirror of sorts, notably on the way in which American television and the major networks of the 1980s worked and developed. …”
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Uncivil Discourses and Polarisation on Prime Time Political Talk Shows. by Javier Pérez-Sánchez, Àlvar Peris-Blanes

“… Political talk shows have been one of the most relevant tools in political communication since they burst onto American television at the end of the 20th century (Baum & Jamison, 2006). …”
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CSI, de la série au jeu : « a more immersive experience » by Hélène Monnet-Cantagrel

“…The franchises have however known an increasingly frequent presence on American television, and since the Telecommunications Act of 1996, have entered into a logic of competition and branding; a fact that, in itself, brings the question of frequency into play. …”
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Representation of Asian Americans in contemporary US television dramas. by Leow, How Phing.

“…Drawing on the development of stereotypes and the various positive and negative characterizations of Asian American men and women, a textual analysis of popular contemporary US television dramas reveal that the images of two-dimensional Asian American stereotypes still persist but their character development suggest more positive representations and acceptance by white American audiences who still remain the primary target of these mainstream American television dramas. The slowly but surely changing representations are reflective of the progress made by the Asian American community who have been consistently lobbying for more positive representations of Asian Americans in the media. …”
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A Case of Asynchronous Media Change in the 1950s: How US-American TV Series Came to Early West German Television by Andre Dechert

“…To exemplify this argument, I delve into examples which demonstrate that West German television executives and executive employees were either creating television series on the basis of US-American television series or were broadcasting the latter after synchronization. …”
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Hollywood Stars vs Variety Show Hosts: The incompatible case of Frank Sinatra on 1950s Television by McNally, Karen

“…This article considers the identity of the variety show host on 1950s American television, exploring how Frank Sinatra’s poorly received assumption of the role reveals its strictly limited alignment with a perceived middle-class suburban family audience. …”
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Nixon, Trump and Washington behind closed doors: fictionalizing Watergate and the prescience of the historical miniseries by McNally, Karen

“…The development of the miniseries as a TV genre during the 1970s became central to American television’s dramatization of the nation’s history through stories that combined fact and fiction to relate the past to contemporary US culture. …”
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Investigating the Translators’ Strategies in Subtitling and Dubbing of Taboos in American Drama Television Series The Big Little Lies (2019) by Aynaz Samir

“…Thus, the current study aimed to investigate the strategies employed in subtitling and dubbing English taboos in seven episodes of one American television series using Davoodi’s (2009) model. …”
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The Reconfigurations in Brazilian Television and the New Communicational Dynamics: A Study About the Globoplay Streaming Platform by Valdemir Santos Neto, Mário Abel Bressan Júnior

“… This article aims at discussing aspects related to the context of the decline of television, approaching Latin American television studies with other theories about television. …”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed by Stefan L. Brandt

“…This essay discusses the aesthetics of dehierachization in one of the pioneering sitcoms in American television—the CBS-produced Mister Ed (1961–1966). …”
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Uma abordagem a tendências socioculturais pela análise de conteúdo: a narrativa audiovisual em contexto de estudo de caso by Nelson Gomes

“…Through an in-depth content analysis approach, we present the North American television series 'South Park' as a case study. …”
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Audience research for fun and profit : rediscovering the value of television audiences by Seles, Sheila Murphy

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