This Manual is published by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the federal agency directed by Congress to regulate broadcasting. It provides a brief overview of the regulation of broadcast radio and television licensees, describing how the FCC authorizes broadcast stations, the various rules relating to broadcast programming and operations that stations must comply with, and the essen…
The fact that the tagline culminates in the emboldening of‘again’highlights therepetitionofdeath,whichprovidesthemotionpicture’sforwardmomentum.Inthefilm, protagonist and quintessential final girl, Teresa “Tree” Gelbman finds herselfcaptured in a Groundhog Day-esque loop in which she keeps being murdered, onherbirthday(Mondaythe18th),onlytowakeupagainthemorningofthatverysameday.The es…
Doctor Who (1963–1989, 2005–) is a curiosity in the vast landscape of British tele- vision history. What started out as an educational children’s programme has transformed into a “pop-cultural artefact”1 and a “cultural phenomenon”.2 The Doctor, the eponymous hero of the BBC’s time travel programme, is a figure invested both with personal memori…
This book aims to unpack the cultural politics that operate on the affec-tive and emotional dimensions of Chinese reality TV through a case study ofthe life-exchange showX-Change, which has a ten-year broadcasting history.Reality TV shows are infused with emotions. Even without any empirical an-alytic support, sophisticated viewers could perhaps realize that reality showsimmerse them in a large…
Yet we cannot foreclose the extent to which some thinkers and theorists, especially looking back over the long arc of TV reception, have raised concerns about the medium’s deleterious potential: its apparent agency in human dissipation and degeneracy. While Raymond Williams offered a critical materialist approach equipped with a searing interest in how serious criticism of …