[ecrea] Journal of Popular Television 3.2

Intellect is delighted to announce that /Journal of Popular Television
3.2
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002>/ 

is out now. This is an international journal designed to promote and
encourage scholarship on all aspects of popular television, whether
fictional and non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and
comedy. This journal is a special issue focussing on the
much-marginalised theme of disability and television.

List of articles(partial list):

*Something special: Care, pre-school television and the dis/abled child
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002/art00002> 

*
pp. 163-178(16)
*Author:*/Holdsworth, Amy/

Through a close reading of the series Something Special (2003–), this
article explores the implicit and explicit rhetorics of ‘care’ within
the remit and content of the UK pre-school children’s channel CBeebies.

*‘It’s really scared of disability’: Disabled comedians’ perspectives of
the British television comedy industry
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002/art00003> 

*
pp. 179-193(15)
*Author:* /Lockyer, Sharon/

Via thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with disabled comedy
writers and performers, this article specifically focuses on the
everyday working experiences of disabled comedy professionals in the
contemporary television comedy industry.

*
> From awww to awe factor: UK audience meaning-making of the 2012 Paralympics as  mediated spectacle
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002/art00004> 

*
pp. 195-212(18)
*Authors:*/Hodges, Caroline E. M.; Scullion, Richard; Jackson, Daniel/

This article considers UK audiences’ meaning-making of television
coverage of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

*Supersize vs. Superskinny: (Re)framing the freak show in contemporary
popular culture
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002/art00005> 

*
pp. 213-228(16)
*Author:*/Leadley, Allison/

In this article, a close reading of two episodes is explored to
demonstrate how the show implicitly reinforces the moral, political and
cultural superiority of the so-called ‘normate’.

Disability and television: Notes from the field
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jptv/2015/00000003/00000002/art00008>**

pp. 261-267(7)

*Author:*/Barton, Sarah/

This article aims to give advice to other programme-makers, and does so
within practical contexts such as budgetary constraints and ‘typical’
working practices.

This issue concludes with four book reviews on /Sports on Television:
The How and Why Behind What You See, Television and British Cinema:
Convergence and Divergence Since 1990, Remembering Dennis Potter through
Fans, Extras and Archives, Reading Asian Television Drama: Crossing
Borders and Breaking Boundaries/.

If you would like more information please follow the link below or email
(eden /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(eden /at/ intellectbooks.com)>

http://bit.ly/1xWTj66

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