Black Lives Have Always Mattered
Cultural specificity and transformative representations in Small Axe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5682192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trisha Dunleavy (0000-0001-8030-698X, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-205 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/17496020221122184 |
| OpenAlex | W4295708843 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
Small Axe, a series of five films, has brought innovation and prestige to TV drama not only for its overdue history of Caribbean migrant experiences in post-war Britain but also for its transformative representations of Black British people. The article examines three areas of the Small Axe production and text in recognition of their importance to these achievements: its creative genesis as a TV drama inspired by the under-representation of Britain's Caribbean diaspora; the opportunities it gained as a BBC commission and Amazon coproduction; and the indicators and outcomes of its deployment of the four 'markers' of Third Cinema textuality
Aesthetics · Art · Custodians · Diaspora · Drama · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Prestige · Sociology · Textuality · Transformative learning · Witness · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Television Drama
Television Production in Transition
Transnational TV
The New Babel
On Unthinking Eurocentrism
Third Cinema in the Third World
Towards a Third Cinema
Transnational co-production, multiplatform television and My Brilliant Friend
Cultural discourses and practices of institutionalised diversity in the UK film sector
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |