Word of Guest Editor- Anthropology of TV Series, Part I

Abstract

The decades-long process of studying popular culture as part of Serbian anthropology has been expanded and deepened with the anthropology of television series as a soundly established subdisciplinary field.

Aiming to shed light on various aspects of problems by means of anthropological insights – from the meaning of specific television series to the audience needs they satisfy – the Journal's first issue in 2022 comprises four original scholarly articles, namely: Prof. Bojan Žikić's The Vampire as a Model of Cultural Otherness in the Television Series What We Do in the Shadows; Asst. Prof. Bogdan Dražeta's Ethnic and Regional Stereotypes in the TV Series Konak kod Hilmije; research associate Milan Tomašević’s The Sixth Corridor: The Contextualization of the TV Series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey; and Culture Wars in Gothic Mode: The Example of HBO’s Miniseries Sharp Object (2018) by Vladana Ilić, a doctoral student at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.