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Journal of Popular Television 8.1 is now available
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Journal of Popular Television 8.1 is now available

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Popular Television 8.1 is now available! 

 

For more information about the journal and issue, click here >> https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-television

 

Aims & Scope

 

Journal of Popular Television is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal designed to promote and encourage scholarship on all aspects of popular television, whether fictional or non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and comedy.

 

Issue 8.1

 

Articles

 

We were queer first: Male homophobic anxieties in three American sitcoms of the 1990s

ALEC CHARLES

 

Savvy viewers and (simulated) reality TV: An analysis of The Bachelor’s appeal to viewers

SCOTT HADEN CHURCH, TOM ROBINSON, CLARK CALLAHAN, KATHERINE KLOTZER BARBOZA AND DANIEL MONTEZ

 

‘Half the world away’: Cultural distance and intertextual incompetence in the American reception of British TV comedy 

DAVID SCOTT DIFFRIENT

 

Khaki-tinted glasses: Nostalgia and memory at wartime in TV’s M*A*S*H 

MARTIN HALL

 

Contextualizing the bronies: Cult, quality, subculture and the contradictions of contemporary fandom

EWAN KIRKLAND

 

Threatening gazes: Observation and objectification in the TV series Marvel’s Jessica Jones

MAREN LICKHARDT