Global television formats understanding television across borders
For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to med...
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New York :
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New York : 2012. |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627768006719 |
Table of Contents:
- GLOBAL TELEVISION FORMATS Understanding Television Across Borders; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Television Formats-A Global Framework for TV Studies; PART I Format Theories and Global Television; 1 More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance; 2 "Calling Out Around the World": The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats; 3 Television Formats and Contemporary Sport; 4 A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasures; 5 Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the Sitcom: WPBT-PBS's ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.? (1975-1980)
- PART II Transnational Formats: Historical Perspectives6 From Discrete Adaptations to Hard Copies: The Rise of Formats in European Television; 7 "National Mike": Global Host and Global Formats in Early Italian Television; 8 Telenovelas in Brazil: From Traveling Scripts to a Genre and Proto-Format both National and Transnational; 9 Reversal of Fortune? Hollywood Faces New Competition in Global Media Trade; PART III Case Study: The Idol Franchise; 10 Idol Worship: Ethnicity and Difference in Global Television; 11 NZ Idol: Nation Building Through Format Adaptation
- 12 Global Television Formats in Africa: Localizing Idol13 We Are the World: American Idol 's Global Self-Posturing; PART IV Trans-Formats: Local Articulations and the Politics of Place and Nation; 14 The Social and Political Dimensions of Global Television Formats: Reality Television in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia; 15 A Revolution in Television and a Great Leap Forward for Innovation? China in the Global Television Format Business; 16 Global Television Formats and the Political Economy of Cultural Adaptation: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in India
- 17 Global Franchising, Gender, and Genre: The Case of Domestic Reality Television18 Reiterational Texts and Global Imagination: Television Strikes Back; Index
