The Popular Entertainment Side of Broadcasting Should Receive Much More Attention
The BBC, Comedy, and Nation-Building at Home and Abroad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brett Mills (0000-0002-9899-5303, Edge Hill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 348-364 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/17496020221119412 |
| OpenAlex | W4292113743 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article outlines and examines the role comedy and entertainment have played at the BBC in constructing a sense of national identity both in the UK and overseas. It demonstrates the ways in which UK national identities are intertwined with ideas of a sense of humour, and the extent to which this is a performative act. Beginning with a historical approach, the article shows how the BBC, over time, has employed comedy as a way to evidence particularities of UK national identities, and the importance of the organisation in contributing to this
Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Comedy · Entertainment · Media studies · National identity · Performative utterance · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Australian History and Society · Computer Science · Humor Studies and Applications · Law · Philippine History and Culture
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A National Joke
Producing TV Content in a Globalized Intellectual Property Market
Broadcasting Empire
Imperialism and Popular Culture
An Introductory History of British Broadcasting
Culture, Communication and National Identity
Anyone but England!’ Perceptions of difference; or ‘them’ and ‘us’ in Scottish comedy
Pack up your troubles and smile, smile, smile’
The BBC’s ‘little man’ in the age of supermen
Transnational TV Comedy Audiences
Enthusiasm, Experiment and Gallantry in Action’
Citizen Smith more than Citizen Kane ? Genres-in-progress and the cultural politics of difference
The ‘North Atlantic Triangle’
Entangled Media Histories
Spreading Wisdom
Cowboys, Comedy and Crime
An ABC of Australian sitcoms
Humor style differences across four English-speaking countries
Mass middlebrow laughter
Assembling identities
A Social History of the Media
Defining a national brand
Media History or Media Histories
Television studies after TV
Imagined communities
Who listened when london called? reactions to the BBC empire service in canada, Australia and new zealand, 1932-1939
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |