Zuzana Kvetanová – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk Media, marketing, communication Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:10:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://communicationtoday.sk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-ct-32x32.png Zuzana Kvetanová – Communication Today https://communicationtoday.sk 32 32 THE FILM INDUSTRY AND ITS CRITICAL REFLECTIONS IN BIOGRAPHICAL DRAMAS https://communicationtoday.sk/the-film-industry-and-its-critical-reflections-in-biographical-dramas/ Sat, 12 Apr 2025 23:00:34 +0000 https://communicationtoday.sk/?p=4718 ABSTRACT:

The film genre called biographical drama (abbreviated as biopic) focuses on depicting the unique fates and professional achievements or failures of public figures, including popular figures in the music industry. Given the long-term success of these film narratives, there is a need to explore biographical audiovisual narratives about musicians of the past and present. The main aim of the study, therefore, is to elucidate the conventional genre patterns and iconography of the film genre of biographical drama in the form of a critical reflection on feature films, contemporary biopics from the music industry that resonate in the world of cinema. To fulfil the stated aim, the first step is to explain key concepts and processes closely related to the issue at hand. In a follow-up case study, we explain the ways in which the music industry collaborates with the film industry in the application of qualitative content (narrative) analysis of selected research materials. We work on the assumption that biographical dramas about music personalities have the potential to create financially and audience successful media content, reaching relatively high qualitative levels, despite their generally low reputation by the professional public. This assumption opens up a debate about ways of working with the relevant genre iconography. We are also interested in answering the question of how and whether the meaning of the presented facts changes to dramatize the plot, and to what extent the examined film narratives referring to real life stories of selected persons fulfil their informative-educational character. In fact, we believe that the representation of reality in the media reality (represented by audiovisual images of the described genre) is modified to a certain extent. For this reason, we consider it necessary to approach the interpretation of cinematic works in a critical manner.

KEY WORDS:

biographical drama, biopic, film genre, film industry, film narrative, genre iconography, informative-educational function of biopics, media audiences, media (film) education, music industry, media reality

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.34135/communicationtoday.2025.Vol.16.No.1.1

]]> To Thrive Means to Entertain: The Nature of Today’s Media Industries https://communicationtoday.sk/to-thrive-means-to-entertain-the-nature-of-todays-media-industries/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:47:21 +0000 https://www.communicationtoday.sk/?p=3267 ABSTRACT:
Understanding the ‘industrial’ nature of media production and its individual segments is an essential part of any systematic scholarly reflection on the cultural, economic or political aspects of media communication. The media industries produce information, entertainment, narratives and cultural phenomena, i.e. materialised items able to disseminate (and promote) a plethora of ideas, experience, emotions, lifestyles, value-based opinions or even spiritual stimuli. However, despite all of their unique traits and production principles, media industries may be seen as ‘common’ industrial segments that are subject to specific technological, economic and commercial imperatives. The production ‘phase’ of media communication certainly involves a wide spectrum of rather complex production mechanisms. The study thus aims to explore and discuss the current scholarly opinions on the media industries and their social, cultural, economic and technological frameworks. Firstly, the authors offer an overview of existing definitions of the media industries and their typologies. The basic terminological outlines are followed by a closer look at transformations of the media industries in the digital era, especially in relation to late modern media audiences and their volatile preferences. The authors also introduce, discuss and compare various paradigmatic outlines related to studying the economic aspects of media production, placing emphasis on the political economy of media and its problematic relationship to media studies and cultural studies.

KEY WORDS:
critical political economy of media, late modern media audiences, media and cultural studies, media economics, media industries, media ownership, oligopolies

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