Belligerent broadcasting, male anti-authoritarianism and anti-environmentalism: the case of Top Gear (BBC, 2002-2015)
Belligerent broadcasting, male anti-authoritarianism and anti-environmentalism: the case of Top Gear (BBC, 2002-2015)
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好战的广播、男性反独裁主义和反环保主义：《Top Gear》案例（BBC，2002-2015）
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10.1080/17524032.2016.1211161
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2016
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Drake P
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这篇文章考虑了英国电视节目Top Gear（BBC 2002-2015）的格式和文化政治。它分析了如何通过其提出的团队，它构建了一个非正式的地址周围的反独裁或逆向戏谑和抗议男子气概。《顶级齿轮》节目主持人抗议的常规目标--在性别和种族方面受到广播准则的限制--转向了政府关于环境问题的立法或各种形式的监管“繁文缛节”的“软”目标。反复提到的超速摄像头、伦敦市中心的拥堵费和“过度”的标志都是通过喜剧形式的表演演讲传达的反独裁、自由主义的话语。因此，BBC对有关该节目的投诉的主要回应是为该节目的政治观点辩护，认为这是幽默的一部分。本文借鉴了批评话语分析和会话分析，以考虑该计划如何许可的特定形式的参与，帮助它转移批评，并考虑这种话语定位的限制。最后，我们研究了最终导致2015年主要主持人杰里米克拉克森被撤职的争议，以及通过团队离开到点播在线电视服务而结束该版本的节目。
This article considers the format and cultural politics of the hugely successful UK television programTop Gear(BBC 2002–2015). It analyzes how—through its presenting team—it constructed an informal address predicated around anti-authoritarian or contrarian banter and protest masculinity. Regular targets forTop Gearpresenter’s protest—curtailed by broadcast guidelines in terms of gender and ethnicity—are deflected onto the “soft” targets of government legislation on environmental issues or various forms of regulation “red tape. Repeated references to speed cameras, central London congestion charges and “excessive” signage are all anti-authoritarian, libertarian discourses delivered through a comedic form of performance address. Thus, the BBC’s primary response to complaints made about this program was to defend the program’s political views as being part of the humor. The article draws on critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis to consider how the program licensed a particular form of engagement that helped it to deflect criticisms, and considers the limits to such discursive positioning. We conclude by examining the controversies that finally led, in 2015, to the removal of the main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, and the ending of this version of the program through the departure of the team to an on-demand online television service.