Domesticating pathogenies, evaluating change
The Eurozone crisis as a ‘hot moment’ in Greek television fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11267142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Georgia Aitaki (0000-0002-3872-5096, University of Gothenburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 957-972 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443717734403 |
| OpenAlex | W2761859982 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 21 |
This article investigates how the Eurozone crisis is thematically negotiated in a popular Greek television comedy. Inspired by the increasing interest in the ideological role of news media during the Eurozone crisis of the late 2000s, it turns the spotlight on the sphere of entertainment in an attempt to address the importance of fictional mediations and meaning-making processes. To that end, it proposes an understanding of television fiction as an accommodator and shaper of ‘hot moments’, instigating processes of self-assessment and evaluation of change. More specifically, the study examines the ways in which the family comedy Piso sto Spiti (MEGA Channel, 2011–2013) provides culturally based understandings of the Eurozone crisis by depicting it as associated with inherent flaws of the modern Greek and by assessing the possibility of change through a juxtaposition with national ‘others’. At the same time, it identifies ways that ideology leaks from television fiction in its interaction with other media discourses simultaneously circulating within a society
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Comedy · Entertainment · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Reality television · Sociology · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
International History
Media and the Economic Crisis of the EU
The Greek Crisis in the Media
Social Issues in Television Fiction
Crisis, Austerity and Opposition in Mainstream Media Discourses of Greece
Political Controversies in Brazilian TV Fiction
A nation under attack
The Germans are back’
The financial crisis in the German and English press
From Grexit to Grecovery
Nation as neighborhood
Ideology’ and media research
Language in the Media
Ideology critique
Narrating Crisis
Tolerance as an Ideological Category
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |