TV Documentary Research Articles

Digital Visualisation in Classics Teaching and Beyond

For the last few years, I have been working on an extensive digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in the early 4thCentury AD. This sort of visualisation lends itself to many applications in diverse fields: I am currently using it for research work into illumination and sightlines in the ancient city, have licensed it for broadcast in TV documentaries and publication in magazines, and am working with a computer games studio to turn it into an online game where players will be able to walk round the streets and buildings of the entire city (when not engaged in trading with or assassinating one another). Later this year I will be making a free online course, or MOOC, about the architecture of ancient Rome, which will largely be illustrated by this model.

ПОРТРЕТНИЙ ЖАНР У ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНИХ ТЕЛЕВІЗІЙНИХ ФІЛЬМАХ: ТЕОРЕТИКО-ЕСТЕТИЧНІ ВИМОГИ

The article is about the genre differentiation of TV documentaries. The portrait explanations are given in examples. Differences in the production of other documentary TV forms and television documentary are shown in research article as well. This article is also focuses on the theoretical and aesthetic requirements of portrait genre. At the same time, a subsidiary subgenres of portrait genre - a biographical portrait, portrait-essay, portrait-interview are explained by examples.

Korean Society’s Perception toward Suicide: “Us” and “Them” Represented in a TV Documentary

Korean Society’s Perception toward Suicide: “Us” and “Them” Represented in a TV Documentary

Kings, Celebrities and Working Mums: Kjartan Poskitt’s Plays for Young Actors as History and Entertainment

After postmodern approaches called into question the foundations of academic history in the 1970s and 1980s, recent studies have identified a new boom in popular history formats such as historical novels, costume drama and TV documentaries. This trend has also spurred new theoretical approaches towards (popular) history, which are both a continuation and a reaction to postmodern theories. On the basis of these, this paper analyses two plays by the British writer and comedian Kjartan Poskitt – Henry the Tudor Dude: A Musical Play (1995) and Nell’s Belles: The Swinging Sixteen-Sixties Show: A Musical (2002)—both aimed at young amateur actors. These two plays present panoramic views of the lives of the English kings Henry VIII and Charles II, respectively, and show their objects in a highly entertaining and irreverent light, concentrating on their flamboyant private lives and personal failures. The paper demonstrates how these plays approach the dual aims of teaching and entertaining that are so typical of both children’s literature and popular history in general. Moreover, it argues that though the plays represent a new development in the previously neglected field of historical drama for the young, they can also serve to demonstrate recent theoretical approaches towards (popular) history.

TV 다큐멘터리에 표현된 조선시대 미용법 분석 -재매개성 이론을 중심으로-

The purpose of the study was to investigate how the Classification of the Joseon Dynasty's Beauty characteristics were expressed in a TV documentary focusing ona Re-mediation theory. The methods of study comprised of library research, Internet search, and using TV documentary program case studies. The work this Researcher makeup in the manufacture from the documentary in which the methods the Joseon. Dynasty expressed were selected. The literature, and preceding research, were referred to as a way to help organize the Joseon Dynasty's 'gi-saeng Hwang Jin-Hee', 'woman of royal family', and way of make-up of 'sadae-bu lady'. The TV documentary programs selected were 'MBC special' and '2 parts of channel A documentary special'. First, the improvisation of nature and simultaneity expressed in the Joseon Dynasty's usage of make-up is shown through the interview form reflecting the make-up tools and age direction of the scenes or expert. Second, the interactivity and reality are well seen through the row equivalent in which the model seems to directly use the dressing demonstration of the expert and cosmetics material. Third, the cultural expandability and unexpectedness show through the production of situations which are viewed from the explanation of the narration and letter subtitles and drama.

The significance of celebrities’ personal possessions for image authentication: the Teresa Teng memorabilia museum

In contrast with episodic news about celebrities in the tabloid press, the narrative approach taken in biographical documentaries is better able to construct a coherent identity for a celebrity through telling the story of how they came to be the person they are. Taking two TV documentaries on the life of Asian popular music superstar Teresa Teng as examples, it can be seen that even this form of identity construction may be unreliable as a consequence of the inclusion of various broader narratives that are woven into the personal life story. However, the non-mediated nature of the experience of viewing a celebrity’s personal possessions has the potential to authenticate (or discredit) certain publicly constructed identities and images on account of its similarity to an ‘out-of-face’ encounter. To illustrate, seeing the collection of Teresa Teng’s personal possessions in her memorabilia museum reinforces for the visitor an image of Teng as someone for whom traditional markers of high status were particularly important – an identity somewhat at odds with the popular depiction of her as the sweet, girl-next-door type who shared the sentiments and tastes of millions of ordinary Taiwanese.

Taming the Primitive: Multiculturalism and the Anthropological Vision of South Korean Media

This study examines the meaning of ethnographic documentaries newly produced in South Korea. These TV programs present “primitiveness” to an extreme, which may reflect social changes in Korea. The South Korean media first started to show strong interest in international and intercultural issues, particularly non-Western cultures, as the society opened up to having a multicultural population; and there was also the international popularity of Korean pop culture known as Korean wave, hallyu. Korean TV documentaries illustrate complex responses to social changes and cultural diversification of the society, but recall colonialist views from the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. A colonialist vision is being emulated through concrete visuals, despite historical and cultural discrepancies between 19th-century Europe and 21st-century East Asia. This raises theoretical questions about an alternative form of postcolonial power in contemporary East Asian society.

Performing The Homo-Nazi Effect: Gay Neo-Nazism, Digital Drag Attack, and the Postcinematic Cultures of Crisis

In 1992 Nicky Crane, an iconic figure of a London-based neo-Nazi movement, came out as gay in the TV documentary OUT. This was not his first appearance on screen: a few years ago, the same man starred in a series of amateur gay porn films. Both of these visual performances—documentary and porn—brought to thespotlightakinkydimensionofthegayuniverse:thebeastlystyleofskinheads turned into a costume of cinematic hedonism. Crane's stylistic armature— narrowtrousers,boots,andbraces—restagedthepolitics(ofcruelty)onacatwalk

Plant-made pharmaceuticals: from 'Edible Vaccines' to Ebola therapeutics.

As I sat writing this ‘personal reflections’ manuscript in the spring of 2015, I was seeing press reports related to the use of tobacco to make an Ebola therapeutic called ZMapp. For several months newspaper articles, radio shows and hour‐long TV documentaries have given the public unprecedented exposure to the fact that ‘plant‐made pharmaceuticals’ (PMP) can be life‐saving drugs. I have been asked by many nonspecialists – why tobacco? How can this work? After spending over twenty years doing research in this field and many, many hours in public policy meetings promoting PMPs as an important tool of public health, I do not tire of hearing the same questions. Although there is an increasing pipeline of new protein drugs that will come from plants for both human and animal health, the general public has little knowledge of these specialized tools and therefore limited support for the field. ZMapp has given us free advertising on an international scale that I could never have anticipated.

Development of an abbreviated form of the Penn Line Orientation Test using large samples and computerized adaptive test simulation.

Visuospatial processing is a commonly assessed neurocognitive domain with deficits linked to dysfunction in right posterior regions of the brain. With the growth of large-scale clinical research studies, there is an increased need for efficient and scalable assessments of neurocognition, including visuospatial processing. The purpose of the current study was to use a novel method that combines item response theory (IRT) and computerized adaptive testing (CAT) approaches to create an abbreviated form of the computerized Penn Line Orientation Test (PLOT). The 24-item PLOT was administered to 8,498 youths (aged 8-21 years) as part of the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort study and, by Web-based data collection, in an independent sample of 4,593 adults from Great Britain as part of a TV documentary. IRT-based CAT simulations were used to select the best PLOT items for an abbreviated form by performing separate simulations in each group and choosing only items that were selected as useful (i.e., high item discrimination and in the appropriate difficulty range) in at least 1 of the simulations. Fifteen items were chosen for the final, short form of the PLOT, indicating substantial agreement among the models in how they evaluated each item's usefulness. Moreover, this abbreviated version performed comparably to the full version in tests of sensitivity to age and sex effects. This abbreviated version of the PLOT cuts administration time by 50% without detectable loss of information, which points to its feasibility for large-scale clinical and genomic studies.

구성다큐 방송작가의 저작권 인식과 제도 정착에 대한 연구

방송 콘텐츠의 저작권 제도와 법에 대한 관심이 점점 커져가고 있는 상황에서 본 연구는 드라마 작가에 비해 저작권 연구가 거의 없는 구성다큐 방송작가의 저작권 제도에 대해 살펴보았다. 이를 위해 저작물에 관한 실질적인 수입이 발생하는 10년 이상 경력의 메인 작가 12명과 한국방송작가협회의 저작권 담당자를 심층 면접했다. 심층인터뷰 결과, 구성다큐 방송작가들은 방송의 기획, 원고, 편집에서 주도적인 업무를 담당하는 경력 작가들임에도 불구하고, 표준집필계약서 작성 없이 구두계약으로 업무를 시작하고, 저작물 사용료의 토대가 되는 기본원고료가 터무니없이 낮게 산정되어 저작권 수입의 현실화가 이루어지지 않고 있었다. 또한 출판, 영화 등 2차 저작물의 저작권 침해 관행으로 인한 피해도 많은 것으로 나타났다. 열악한 외주제작 환경, 구성다큐 프로그램의 축소 및 폐지 등 방송환경의 구조적인 문제로 인해 구성다큐 방송작가의 저작권 제도 정착은 매우 어려운 상황에 놓여 있다. 구성다큐 방송작가의 저작권을 보호하고, 강화하는 것은 방송 콘텐츠의 다양성과 공공성, 창작성을 담보하는 중요한 토대이다. 따라서 저작권 보호를 위한 표준집필계약서 작성과 기본원고료의 현실화, 저작권 사용에 관한 투명한 거래는 가장 시급하게 정착되어야 할 사안이다. This study aims to explore how the copyright for writers of informative TV programs and documentaries is protected in the reality of broadcasting. For this study, 12 writers and the head of copyright department of the Korea TV & Radio Writers Association were interviewed in depth for research. Our interview findings suggest that writers have worked without written agreement signed by some form of legally binding contract. Instead, they have made verbal contracts. Writers should be aware of the reality of copyrights and request to readjust of basic copywriting fee from the Writers Association and each broadcasting station.

Michael Scott

Associate Professor Michael Scott is a researcher and lecturer based in the department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is also President of the Lytham St Annes Classical Association. Prior to his appointment at Warwick, Michael was the Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in ancient history at Darwin College, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, at Cambridge University.Michael's research and teaching engages with interdisciplinary approaches to the literary, epigraphic and material evidence to investigate ancient Greek and Roman society, particularly focusing on Delphi and Olympia as religious spaces.While Michael has contributed significantly to the field of classics and ancient history by publishing extensively, he has also enjoyed great success in engaging wider audiences with the ancient world. He regularly talks in schools around the country, writes books intended for the popular market as well as articles for national and international newspapers and magazines. Michael's experience in writing and presenting a range of programmes intended for TV and radio audiences has made him a household name. He has written and presented programmes for the National Geographic, History Channel, Nova, and the BBC including Delphi: bellybutton of the ancient world (BBC4); Guilty Pleasures: luxury in the ancient and medieval words (BBC4); Jesus: rise to power (Natural Geographic); Ancient Discoveries (History Channel); Who were the Greeks? (BBC2); The Mystery of the X Tombs (BBC2/Nova); The Greatest Show on Earth (BBC4, in conjunction with the Open University). He has also presented a radio series for BBC Radio 4, Spin the Globe. Michael's most recent programme, Roman Britain from the Air, was aired on ITV in December 2014.In this interview, I talk to him about his engagement with other disciplines within the humanities, his forthcoming book project, and his experiences writing and presenting TV and radio documentaries.

Accessing the archive: A TV history of Afrikaans film

Abstract This article explores the political economy of the Afrikaans film production industry. The point of entry is a TV documentary series, Far Away in the Movies (Lategan, 2011). A basic methodology for examining visualization of media history is developed by examining the series as a point of reference. The issue of film archives and challenges of obtaining access is discussed. Issues of memory and how interviewees and scholars remember is conducted through autoethnographic analysis.

TV 다큐멘터리에 대한 수용자의 인지욕구와 주목도가 정보습득과 이해에 미치는 영향

본 연구는 미디어 효과 연구 분야에서 수용자 요인인 인지욕구와 맥락 요인인 주목도가 메시지에 대한 정보습득과 이해에 미치는 영향을 실험을 통해 살펴본 연구이다. 대부분의 미디어 효과에 관한 선행 연구들은 TV나 신문 인터넷 등의 뉴스 콘텐츠가 수용자에게 미치는 영향을 살펴보고 있다. 그러나 이들 미디어의 뉴스 못지않게 다양한 정보를 제공하고 있는 TV 다큐멘터리를 대상으로 한 수용자 효과 연구는 매우 제한적이며, 다큐멘터리 수용자의 인지욕구와 주목도가 수용자에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구는 찾아보기 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 메시지 정보를 풍성하게 다루고 있는 텔레비전 시사다큐멘터리 수용자의 인지욕구와 주목도가 메시지의 정보습득과 이해에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 실험을 통해 살펴보았다. 본 연구를 수행하기 위해 수용자 요인인 인지욕구 변인은 집단내 변인으로 설계한 후, 조작이 가능한 주목도 변인의 높고 낮음에 따라 2개의 집단으로 임의로 구분하고, 동일한 시사다큐멘터리 영상물을 시청하게 한 후 설문조사를 실시하여 피험자들의 인지욕구, 정보습득과 이해 정도 등을 측정하였다. 모두 135명으로 구성된 피험자들의 설문 조사를 분석한 결과 인지욕구가 높은 피험자들은 메시지에 대한 정보습득과 이해도가 높게 나타났으나, 수용자의 주목도는 메시지에 대한 정보습득과 이해도에 영향을 미치지 못하는 것으로 나타났다. This experimental research explores effect of cognition desire as audience's factor, and attention as context factor on audience's acquirement of information and understanding. Most previous researches of media effect focuses on news contents of TV, Newpaper and Internet. However the number of researches on TV documentary which contains lots of information very limited, and It's difficult to find researches on effect of cognition desire and attention on audience. Therefore this research tries to find effect of cognition desire and attention on audience's acquirement of information and understanding through experiment of TV current documentary. For this experimental research, 2 groups of subjects composed of 135 university students were exposed to 2 different viedeo clips of TV current documantary, one with window buzz, the other without it, after designing cognition desire as internal factor of 2 groups. Questions which were designed to measure cognition desire, acquirement of information and understanding of message were asked and analysed. This research found that subjects with higher degeree of cognition desire showed higher degree of acquirement of information and understanding than subjects with lower degree of cognition desire. However the effect of attention on audience's acquirement of information and understanding could not be found.

Cambios en el documental de naturaleza televisivo en España. De Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente a Frank Cuesta (1974-2011)

El presente artículo presenta los cambios que se han producido en el discurso de los documentales de naturaleza televisivos producidos en España. Para ello, desarrolla el estudio comparativo de una muestra seleccionada de programas correspondientes a las series El Hombre y la Tierra (TVE, 1974) de Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, y de Frank de la Jungla y La selva en casa (Molinos de Papel, 2010-2011) de Frank Cuesta. El análisis de los resultados permite señalar las transformaciones del género documental desde una paleotelevisión de servicio público, hasta las formas más recientes de neotelevisión privada y comercial.

The Visible Hand: economic censorship in Israeli media

This article proposes, as test cases, three TV documentaries that underwent economic censorship in Israeli media in 2001–2014. Economic censorship, very rarely exposed, is a relatively new concept, and is as yet uncommon in media research, although it has been flourishing throughout the neoliberal global media economy over the past three decades. Since the 1980s, Israel's successive military conflicts have been intertwined in a neoliberal hegemony, whereas from the 2000s, neoliberalism was transformed into an extreme version, destroying the former Israeli welfare state, its social order and ideology. The analysis reveals the prominent function of commercial and public TV Channels in the implementation and amplification of neoliberalism proper, neoliberal doctrine, and a culture of neoliberalism to or for Israeli audiences, while ‘Acts of Resistance’, drawn from a relatively autonomous field of production – the TV documentary – challenge neoliberal hegemony, also by continuing to stir activists' consciences before and throughout the social protests in 2011 and their aftermath.

Documentary, world history, and national power in the PRC: global rise in Chinese eyes

1. Introduction 2. Foreign models for the public: the TV documentary Daguo jueqi (The Rise of the Great Powers) 3. China's potentials on display: the sequel documentary Fuxing zhi lu (Road to Revival) 4. Soviet failure lessons for insiders: the party-educational documentary Ju an si wei (Alert to Danger while Dwelling in Safety) 5. Framing visions of China and the world: the state, documentary, and history in comparative perspective

국내 TV 자연 다큐멘터리 에필로그 시스템에 나타난 서사 전략 분석 - <남극의 눈물>을 중심으로> -

국내 TV자연 다큐멘터리의 에필로그 시스템은 기존의 TV 다큐멘터리에서 볼 수 없었던 제작진의 모습을 기록한다. 이는 관조적 시선으로 본편의 제작과정을 다루던 메이킹 필름(makingfilm)과는 달리 제작진의 오지 촬영 과정에 서사성을 부여한다. 이러한 에필로그 시스템은 다큐멘터리의 본편에 비해 서사성이 강조되어 있으며 특히 제작진 개인의 미시적 서사를 다루면서 등장인물을 일종의 캐릭터로 기능하게 만들었다. 이에 본 논문에서는 에필로그 시스템의 서사적 특성을 살펴보기 위해 노스럽 프라이의 원형비평이론을 중심으로 <남극의 눈물>의 서사구조와 등장인물의 특성을 분석했다. <남극의 눈물>은 희극적 로망스의 서사구조와 희극적 등장인물의 특성을 통해 '자연과 인간의 화해'라는 주제를 이끌어냈으며, 이는 비극성을 중심으로 전개되던 자연 다큐멘터리 본편의 내용을 아울러 희극성을 통해 비극성을 극복한다고 볼 수 있다. This study focuses on clarifying narrative strategy of the epilogue system of TV nature documentary. TV nature documentary epilogue system is different from making film. Because it has stories about production team's daily life and incidents while they make films in nature. Therefore, TV documentary epilogue system has distinctive narrative features comparing to the documentary itself. This study analyzes into the distinctive narrative features of TV documentary epilogue system. According to Frye, there are four types of narrative based on narrative structure. 'The tears of Antarctica' has achieved reconciliation between nature and human by it's narrative structure of comic romance and comic character. Therefore, comic romance's narrative features of TV documentary epilogue system overcomes tragic features of the documentary itself.

스마트 미디어의 화면크기가 수용자의 평가와 프레즌스에 미치는 영향-TV다큐멘터리를 중심으로

스마트 미디어의 화면크기가 수용자의 평가와 프레즌스에 미치는 영향-TV다큐멘터리를 중심으로

Shifting baselines on a tropical forest frontier: extirpations drive declines in local ecological knowledge.

The value of local ecological knowledge (LEK) to conservation is increasingly recognised, but LEK is being rapidly lost as indigenous livelihoods change. Biodiversity loss is also a driver of the loss of LEK, but quantitative study is lacking. In our study landscape in SW China, a large proportion of species have been extirpated. Hence, we were interested to understand whether species extirpation might have led to an erosion of LEK and the implications this might have for conservation. So we investigated peoples' ability to name a selection of birds and mammals in their local language from pictures. Age was correlated to frequency of forest visits as a teenager and is likely to be closely correlated to other known drivers of the loss of LEK, such as declining forest dependence. We found men were better at identifying birds overall and that older people were better able to identify birds to the species as compared to group levels (approximately equivalent to genus). The effect of age was also stronger among women. However, after controlling for these factors, species abundance was by far the most important parameter in determining peoples' ability to name birds. People were unable to name any locally extirpated birds at the species level. However, contrary to expectations, people were better able to identify extirpated mammals at the species level than extant ones. However, extirpated mammals tend to be more charismatic species and several respondents indicated they were only familiar with them through TV documentaries. Younger people today cannot experience the sights and sounds of forest animals that their parents grew up with and, consequently, knowledge of these species is passing from cultural memory. We suggest that engaging older members of the community and linking the preservation of LEK to biodiversity conservation may help generate support for conservation.