Critical Studies in Television

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Studies in Television is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Non-disruptive streaming: Aesthetic and industrial continuation of legacy television in Prime Video Mexico51
A perspective on BBC television news in India32
Book Review: Global TV Horror27
Spaces for criticism: the Play for Today Viewing Group on work, gender and the body in The Bevellers (1974) and Not for the19
Culture as window dressing? A threefold methodological framework for researching the locality of Netflix series17
Book Review: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era15
Editorial10
Showcasing reality content on the front page: Comparing four services on the Danish video streaming market10
Netflix’s high-end global telefantasy: Conspicuous and virtual localism7
Netflix original series, global audiences and discourses of streaming success7
‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down’: Feminist resilience/resilient feminism in The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu, 2017–)7
The ‘Netflix Original’ and what it means for the production of European television content7
Book Review: Television and the Genetic Imaginary6
The curation of European Netflix catalogues on social media: The key role of transnational and local cultural traits6
Book Review: A European television fiction renaissance: Premium production models and transnational circulation5
Book Review: Moments in Television: Complexity/simplicity5
Book Review: Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change5
Cultural pluralism and diversity on public television: An analysis of the use of sign language on the BBC and TVE4
Book Review: An Analysis of Minute-by-Minute Television in Norway4
The ‘youthification’ of television4
‘Common Sense Slimming’ - How the contribution of Joan Robins, television’s ‘afternoon cook’, was not the perfect-fit for the culture of the BBC in the 1950s4
Editorial4
Exploring Netflix myths: Towards more media industry studies and empirical research in studying video-on-demand3
Editorial3
Graphic design, music and sound in the BBC’s channel idents, 1991–20212
Adapt or die? How traditional Spanish TV broadcasters deal with the youth target in the new audio-visual ecosystem2
Let the people speak – The Community Programmes Unit 1972–20022
Broadcasting change: An aerial overview of South African television debates in an age of constant transition2
Poorly paid, but proud to work in teams producing ‘quality’: An oral history of women’s experiences working in BBC drama2
Female representation in Netflix Global Original programming: A comparative analysis of 2019 drama series2
‘We shouldn’t let great art disappear into BBC Four’s cultural ghetto’: The impact of BBC Four on mainstream arts provision2
‘It started with a kiss’ EastEnders and subversion from within: Domestic ‘queer’ star persona and British social realism2
Awkwardness sells, but who’s buying? How students navigate awkward TV comedy series2
Book Review: Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera & US Television History2
‘Black Lives Have Always Mattered’: Cultural specificity and transformative representations in Small Axe2
Awakening contaminated lands: (Re)mediated landscapes as transcultural TV memory work, a case study of Sky/HBO miniseries, Chernobyl (2019)1
Grace Wyndham Goldie at the BBC: Reappraising the ‘first lady of television’1
Editorial1
Creating (in) the Arctic: Investigating collaboration and location through a case study of the Arctic noir serial Thin Ice1
Erratum to ‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations1
Book Review: Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture1
‘I am in Great Pain, Please Help Me’: Nihilism, Humour, and Rick and Morty1
‘The Custodian of the BBC Archives’: The future of BBC Four as an archive channel1
Post-Nordic-noir landscapes: Competition through localisation in Finnish streaming media1
Following the recipe: Producing The Great British Bake Off in Flanders1
Book Review: And Now for Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python1
Voices from the emptiness. Developing the agentic rural on Spanish television1
Book Review: Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television1
The constructed quality of Israeli TV on Netflix: The cases of Fauda and Shtisel1
Book Review: Hands on Media History. A New Methodology in the Humanities and Social Sciences1
Book Review: TV drama in the multiplatform era: Transnational coproduction and cultural specificity1
Book Review: Reclaiming Popular Documentary1
Televisual transformations: The making of (media) citizens in interventional television productions1
Book Review: Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption1
Netflix, Spanish television, and La casa de papel: Growing global and local TV together in the multiplatform era1
Book Review: Independent Women: From Film to Television1
From #AltErLove to #LoveIsLove: Transmedia formats, audience engagement and sexual diversity1
The platformisation of public service broadcasting in Germany: The network ‘funk’ and the case of Druck/Skam Germany1
Enraptured by this Glorious Media Landscape: Anne with an E and cross-platform coproduction0
Re-heating the “First” Thanksgiving: the Thanksgiving episode as settler colonial narrative0
From traditional regionalism to national distinction: German television co-productions through time0
The Last Broadcast: Reflections on the life and legacy of BBC Four0
Editorial0
Streaming difference(s): Netflix and the branding of diversity0
Book Review: Twin Peaks0
Gay as cute: Unpacking cuteness in contemporary gay teen drama series0
Scandalous romantic refraction: Reframing rape culture and coercive control on television0
Book Review: Special Issue of Journal of Popular Television on ‘Histories and new directions: Soap opera/serial narrative research’0
Book Review: Babylon Berlin German visual spectacle and global media culture BaerHesterSmithJill Suzanne (eds), Babylon Berlin German Visual Spectacle and Global Media Culture. London: Bloomsbury, 2020
Editorial0
Book Review: Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India0
Book Review: Television and Repetition0
‘Make sense of it’: Cult and complex TV fandoms, post-Truth discourse and an excess of meaning in Twin Peaks: Season 30
Editorial0
Female audiences for true crime television: Popular discourse, feminism and the politics of ‘ethical viewing’0
Book Review: Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand0
Book Review: European Television Crime Drama and Beyond0
Book Reviews: Convergent Chinese Television Industries: An Ethnography of Chinese Production Cultures0
Book Review: Gender and Early Television. Mapping Women’s Role in Emerging US and British Media, 1850-19500
Book Review: Mothers on American Television: From Here to Maternity AkassKim, Mothers on American Television: From Here to Maternity, Manchester: Manchester University Press, £85; 194 pp. ISBN: 978-1-0
Book Review: Television’s Spatial Capital Location, Relocation, Dislocation0
Book Review: Women in Neoliberal Postfeminist Television Drama: Representing Gendered Experiences of the Second World War0
Beyond stealing: The determinants/motivations of Czech audiences to pay for audiovisual content0
Dutch television studies and the reinvention of television as a medium in practice0
Deterritorialisation of Korean TV dramas in “Netflix Originals”: “We are living in the Squid Game world”0
Book Review: Celebrity Chefs, Food Media and the Politics of Eating0
Provocation: Why I want to talk television with global platform representatives0
Book Review: Television Goes to the Movies0
‘Youthification’ of drama through real-time storytelling: A production study of blank and the legacy of SKAM0
Provocation: An agenda for the future of TV studies: Technology, audiences, stakeholders0
Interview with David Waine (1944–2021) Head of Network Production Centre/Head of Broadcasting, BBC Pebble Mill, 1983–19940
Book Review: Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies0
TV drama production studios of Istanbul: From empty sound stages to standing sets0
Book Review: The Scandinavian Invasion: Nordic Noir and Beyond McCullochRichardProctorWilliam (eds), The Scandinavian Invasion: Nordic Noir and Beyond. Lausanne: Peter Lang, 2023; 340 pp. ISBN 97817880
‘It was Bauhaus without realising we were Bauhaus:’ BBC women and Youth and Entertainment programming in the North0
Medicalized reality weight-loss television and the negotiation of neoliberalism on My 600 Pound Life0
Bitesizes, battlegrounds and bedtimes: Children at the BBC0
Producing zombie television: AMC,The Walking Dead, and the institutional dynamics of green-lighting hard-edged horror on cable0
Screening Greenland in Borgen—Power & Glory: The on- and off-screen contestedness of Arctic landscapes and locations0
A future without homophobia? Gay men and personal responsibility in the Chilean telenovela Casa de Muñecos0
Co-creating content with children to avoid ‘Uncle Swag’: Strategies for producing public service television drama for tweens and teens at the Danish children’s channel DR Ultra0
Autism spectrum disorder in contemporary American sitcoms: Narrative and social implication0
Book Review: From Telenovelas to Netflix: Transnational, Transverse Television in Latin America0
Book Review: Danish Television Drama: Global Lessons from a Small Nation0
Book Review: Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television0
Book Review: Writings on Media: History of the Present0
Book Review: Geopolitics, Northern Europe, And Nordic Noir: What Television Series Tell Us About World Politics0
‘Nation shall speak peace unto nation’? The BBC and the nations0
A See change? The problematic (visual) politics of screening the Anthropocene0
‘That’s good’: An industrial, ethics-focused analysis of the televised works of Anthony Bourdain0
Book Review: Armchair Cinema – A History of Feature Films on British Television 1929–1981 Sheldon Hall, Armchair Cinema – A History of Feature Films on British Television 1929-1981, Edinburgh: Edinbur0
Book Review: Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom0
Women and activism in the screen industries: a discussion prompted by Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries 0
Book Review: Radical Mainstream: Independent Film, Video & TV in Britain 1974-19900
Book Review: Film and television production in the age of climate crisis towards a greener screen0
Book Review: Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History0
Book Review: Television/Death WheatleyHelen, Television/Death, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024; 292 pp. ISBN 9781474451727 £90 (hbk), 9781474451758 £22.50 (ePub), 9781474451741 £22.50 (PDF0
“Down-to-Earth TV dramas”: The reception of authenticity, reality, and modality in Danish TV dramas0
‘Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda’: Young Swiss audiences’ attitudes, expectations and evaluations of audiovisual news and information content and the implications for public service television0
Book Review: Television studies in Queer times0
Book Review: Telenovelas and Transformation: Saving Brazil’s Television Industry0
‘I miss when my problems were about nothing’: Millennial angst, neoliberal feminism, and paratexts in Search Party (2016–2022)0
Pleasure’s ascendancy: Against queer youth panic0
Analysing the melancholy of Nordic Noir as stimmung: Affective world-building inThe Bridge0
Finding words: Aesthetic criticism and television0
Editorial0
Book Review: Sporting Realities. Critical Readings of the Sports Documentary0
Book Review: Documentaries and China’s National Image0
Book Review: Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery0
Book Review: Broadcasting for Wales: The Early Years of S4C0
‘How the Music was Made’: Television, musicology and BBC Four0
US television’s expanding modes of industrial practice0
Book Review: Media Disrupted: Surviving Pirates, Cannibals, and Streaming Wars0
Television will archive itself: Channel 4’s role in revalorising ‘old’ TV0
Editorial0
Banal Koreanness: National imagery in multicultural-themed television shows0
SKAM Italia did it again’. The multiple lives of a format adaptation from production to audience experience0
Book Review: Down in Treme; Race, Place and New Orleans on Television0
Editorial0
Book Review: Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream0
BBC television news in the world: An introduction0
Editorial0
Book Review: Period Drama0
Book Review: Rethinking horror in the new economies of television GaynorStella Marie, Rethinking Horror in the New Economies of Television, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022; 261 pp. ISBN 978-3-030-975880
Book Review: Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion, and Political Aspirations0
Landscapes in the frame: Anthropocene screens0
Book Review: Cinematic digital television: negotiating the nexus of production, reception and aesthetics0
New scheduling strategies and production culture in public service television in the digital era: The case of DR and TV 2 in Denmark0
‘What do you think it is that makes them who they are’? The connections between Latinx stereotypes, claims of white difference, and characters’ deaths in Breaking Bad0
Book Review: Sesame Street: A Transnational History JensenHelle Strandgaard, Sesame Street: A Transnational History, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023: 288 pp. ISBN 9780197554159 (hbk), 978019750
Why translations matter – An introduction to Critical Studies in Television’s new section ‘In Translation’0
Book Review: The Golden Girls0
Editorial0
Book Review: Transnational Strategies and Digital Production Cultures at the NRK0
Reality television and the politics of mass surveillance in channel 4’s Hunted0
Sheilas and the Beeb: How the BBC provided liberating pathways for ABC women in the early years of television0
‘Are we having fun yet?’: The Starz television network and Party Down as indie TV0
Notes on the state of Brazilian television archives: From scattered initiatives to an uncertain future0
‘What are people watching in your area?’: Interrogating the role and reliability of the Netflix top 10 feature0
Book Review: North East of England on Film and Television0
Memory, remembrance and nostalgia in Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War0
Book Review: Fanvids: Television, Women, and Home Media Re-Use0
Book Review: Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity0
Favourite books about the BBC: Archives, anecdotes, policies and programmes0
Book Review: Contemporary British Television Drama0
Book Review: Television and the Afghan Culture Wars Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists0
Book Review: TV snapshots: An archive of everyday life0
Book Review: The Early Years of Television and the BBC0
Binge-watching and mental illness versus comfort TV and mental health in WandaVision0
Within power constraints: Forty years of the successes and failures of talent shows in China0
BBC Africa Eye and changing perceptions of Western media among Nigerian audiences0
A modern version of restoration comedy? Double entendre, objectification, fearful men and rakes manqué in the television work of Benny Hill0
Book Review: Television and the Embodied Viewer: Affect and Meaning in the Digital Age0
On the harsh realities of researching television in Poland: Traditions, obstacles and perspectives0
Book Review: Biographical Television Drama0
Jill Craigie and the BBC: Postwar television, feminist histories and modern femininities0
History and Place in Television Drama: Liverpool in Cilla and Boys From the Blackstuff0
Youthification of television through online media: Production strategies and narrative choices in DRUCK/SKAM Germany0
Book Review: Homicide: Life on the Street0
Book Review: Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem WyattJustin, Creating the Viewer: Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem. Austin: University of Texas Press0
Book Review: Histories of Children’s Television Around the World GozanskyYuval (ed), Histories of Children’s Television Around the World. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023; 289 pp. ISBN 97814331960
Book Review: Twilight Zone0
Government public relations, audiovisual communication and the informalisation of Sweden0
Book Review: Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal0
Strategic sisterhood and the girlfriend gaze: Representation of girlfriendship in the Chinese TV drama Ode to Joy0
Book Review: Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television0
Queen Sono: Netflix Original as postfeminist South African spy thriller0
From paleo- to neo-television: A semio-pragmatic approach0
Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama0
Generation Z’s screen culture: Understanding younger users’ behaviour in the television streaming age – The case of post-crisis Greece0
‘Recommended for you’: A distant reading of BBC iPlayer0
Book Review: Television before TV: New media and exhibition culture in Europe and the USA, 1928–19390
“The Popular Entertainment Side of Broadcasting Should Receive Much More Attention”: The BBC, Comedy, and Nation-Building at Home and Abroad0
The underground and end of geologic imaginations in the Finnish/Swedish TV Series White Wall0
‘In on the ground floor’: Women and the early BBC television service, 1932–19390
The endeavour for political and professional freedom in Hungarian television during the 1956 October revolution0
Positive masculinity or toxic positivity? Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso as a capitalist utopia0
Book Review: Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences0
Curation as methodological enhancement in researching production cultures behind screen content about displaced children in Europe0
Book Review: Public Television in Poland: Political Pressure and Public Service Media in a Post-communist Country0
Time and timing–A methodological perspective on production analysis0
Victim behaviour and trauma recovery: Representing black British femininity through fantasy in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You0
Stretching authenticity in times of restricted mobility: Transtextuality, place anchoring, and boredom in romance reality show 90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined0
‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations0
Broadcasting and devolution: Radical future?0
Book Review: Between Habit and Thought in the New Serial Drama0
Book Review: Watching Game of Thrones: How Audiences Engage with Dark Television0
Putting the black in Britain back on the BBC0
Is prompt engineering the future of screenwriting? Views of professional screenwriters and commissioners about the impact of AI technologies on their profession0
Book Review: Turkish drama serials the importance and influence of a globally popular TV phenomenon0
Book Review: On Living with Television0
Where did you go?! Trans-diegetic address and formal innovation in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s television series Fleabag0
Solving ‘The Six’: EastEnders , convergence culture, and ‘forensic fandom’0
Book Review: UK and Irish Television Comedy Representations of Region, Nation and Identity IrwinMaryMarshallJill (Eds). UK and Irish Television Comedy Representations of Region, Nation and Identity. C0
Supporting children’s drama in the on demand age: Assessing the efficacy of forty years of Australian policy frameworks and funding schemes0
Book Review: Horrible White People: Gender, Genre, and Television’s Precarious Whiteness0
Book Review: Nordic Noir, Adaptation, Appropriation0
Book Review: Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television0
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