What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry

发生了什么？

• 批准号: AH/X011763/1
• 负责人: Beth Johnson
• 金额: $ 73.54万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX011763%2F1
• 关键词: What; Rethinking; class; television; industry

What's on? Rethinking class in the television industry is situated in the context of academic, media, and public discussions about social class and the TV industry. From policy concerns about working class access to the sector, through to class as a prominent point of discussion in BAFTA award winners' speeches, class is important to national conversations about TV. Academic research has demonstrated that class is crucial in shaping what gets commissioned for television, who gets roles on and off screen, and the sorts of representations of social class that are broadcast and made available to download or stream. What's on? understands class is an aspect of identity that is intrinsically entwined with other demographic characteristics and markers of identity such as gender, race and disability. This idea aligns with the recent policy and industry attempts to measure and evaluate workforces and audiences from an intersectional perspective. This intersectional understanding of class is present in academic debates over on-screen representation. Who is counted as working class, how class is connected to race and gender, for example, and the way inaccurate or distorted versions of working class life fail to connect to audiences, have all been important themes in recent research.Whilst the literature has been crucial in shaping how we understand the importance of social class in the television industry, there has, as yet, not been a UK research project that fully connects the questions of who produces, what is made and how class is represented and understood. Even within this rich body of research, and the accompanying public, practitioner, and policy interest, questions remain unanswered: What is the impact of social class, understood intersectionally, on contemporary TV production? How is social class represented on contemporary TV? And how do audiences consume, understand, and respond to class on TV? This project is designed to answer these connected questions, sitting at the intersection of the connected literatures that have grappled, separately, with these issues. Working in partnership with the BBC and Channel 4 (BBC pilot ongoing) What's on? will analyse the production, consumption, and reception of two case study drama series. In doing so, the project connects questions of who produces, what is made, and how class is represented and understood. Understanding class in the context of production, representation, and consumption and will make a significant contribution to the literature, given the limited number of studies that have pursued this approach to research. Moreover, linking these three areas of analysis has yet to see a research project with an intersectional approach to social class. The analysis in the project follows four complementary methodologies to produce: a network ethnography for each programme; interviews with commissioners, producers, casting directors and on-screen performers, as well as below the line staff; a framing and textual analysis of the programmes; and analysis of audience data provided from project partners and collected by fieldwork. The project will make a major, specific, contribution to television studies and creative industries, with insights for cultural and media studies scholars, alongside a network of public, policy, and practitioner audiences. These audiences will be engaged using a variety of methods, including a blog, workshops, policy events, reports, audio and film material, as well as open access book and academic papers. What's on? draws on the experience and track records of Johnson and O'Brien as PI and Co-I, offers the opportunity for the emerging early career academic voice of Minor to Co-I a major project, and will offer a wealth of development for a postdoctoral research fellow. The combination of skills and experience will allow AHRC funded research to make an impact on academic audiences and to address inequality in one of Britain's core creative industries

演什么？反思电视行业的阶级是在学术界、媒体和公众对社会阶级和电视行业的讨论中进行的。从对工人阶级进入该部门的政策关注，到英国电影电视艺术学院奖获奖者演讲中的一个突出讨论点，阶级对全国关于电视的对话很重要。学术研究表明，阶级在塑造电视节目的委托内容、屏幕上和屏幕下的角色以及广播和可供下载或流媒体的社会阶级表现形式方面至关重要。演什么？理解阶级是身份的一个方面，本质上与性别、种族和残疾等其他人口特征和身份标志联系在一起。这一想法与最近的政策和行业尝试从跨部门的角度衡量和评估劳动力和受众是一致的。这种对阶级的交叉理解存在于关于屏幕表现的学术辩论中。谁被算作工人阶级，阶级与种族和性别的联系，以及工人阶级生活的不准确或扭曲版本无法与观众联系在一起的方式，都是最近研究的重要主题。虽然文献在塑造我们如何理解社会阶级在电视行业的重要性方面至关重要，但迄今为止，这不是一个英国的研究项目，完全连接谁生产的问题，什么是制造的，以及如何代表和理解阶级。即使在这个丰富的研究机构，以及随之而来的公众，从业者和政策的兴趣，问题仍然没有答案：什么是社会阶层的影响，理解交叉，对当代电视制作？当代电视如何表现社会阶层？观众如何消费、理解和回应电视上的课程？这个项目旨在回答这些相关的问题，坐在已经分别解决这些问题的相关文献的交叉点上。与英国广播公司和第四频道合作（英国广播公司试点正在进行）什么？将分析两个案例研究戏剧系列的生产，消费和接受。在这样做的过程中，该项目将谁生产，制造什么以及如何表示和理解类的问题联系起来。在生产、代表和消费的背景下理解阶级，将对文献做出重大贡献，因为采用这种方法进行研究的研究数量有限。此外，将这三个分析领域联系起来，还没有看到一个研究项目采用交叉方法来研究社会阶层。该项目的分析遵循四种互补的方法来制作：每个节目的网络民族志;采访专员、制片人、选角导演和银幕表演者以及线下工作人员;节目的框架和文本分析;以及分析项目合作伙伴提供并通过实地工作收集的观众数据。该项目将为电视研究和创意产业做出重大，具体的贡献，为文化和媒体研究学者提供见解，以及公众，政策和从业者观众网络。这些受众将通过各种方法参与，包括博客、讲习班、政策活动、报告、音频和电影材料以及开放获取的书籍和学术论文。演什么？借鉴了约翰逊和奥布莱恩作为PI和Co-I的经验和业绩记录，为未成年人到Co-I的新兴早期职业学术声音提供了一个重大项目的机会，并将为博士后研究员提供丰富的发展机会。技能和经验的结合将使AHRC资助的研究能够对学术受众产生影响，并解决英国核心创意产业之一的不平等问题