Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders

ISBN-13: 9780415965453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 394 str.

Tasha Oren

Opis

Aims to revise the place of the global in television studies. This collection of essays explores the diversity of global programming, and asks how to theorize global formats and thus re-shape our understanding of television as an economic system, a socio-political institution, and a popular practice.

Recenzje

"An engrossing and highly stimulating collection that provides critical new bearings for television, cultural and globalisation studies in the second decade of the new millennium. The authors offer a highly nuanced and suggestive re-negotiation of the global/local dichotomy that has bedeviled media studies in the past. This is a critically thoughtful and robust challenge to recent scholarly orthodoxies about what is happening to world television. A magisterial collection of critical insights that dares the student and teacher to re-examine what they are seeing on television now." -Albert Moran, Professor of Screen Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

 

"This extraordinary anthology shows how format TV is transforming the look, feel, and appeal of television in societies around the world. These essays help to expand our understanding of what a format is and how it works, both globally and locally, drawing fascinating connections between commerce, creativity, and the everyday lives of viewers." -Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Chair of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

From Media, Culture & Society: "This edited collection argues formats are a 'highly contextualised study of television as a global system.' For this idea alone, the book should be read. It offers chapters from a range of researchers in television economics, policy, production and form, that address the situated nature of formats as they exist as ideas, products and services, and as they are produced and understood in specific countries and cultures....the book...calls for the end of television research that seems to ignore the vibrant and complex development in global formats across a range of media"--Annette Hill, Lund University, Sweden

From the Journal of Communication: "[Global Television Formats] is eminently useful, well-edited, transparently organized and overall a good read without any weak links. Not only does it thoroughly analyze phenomena crucial to grasping television's globalization but it also retroactively globalizes the history of television, creating helpful models for subsequent analyses." -Anikó Imre, Associate Professor, University of Southern California

From the Global Media Journal: "Readers will discover under its broad thematic umbrella a host of valuable data and informed commentary. With the decline of the top-down model of US cultural imperialism now broadly accepted, this book offers an invaluable road map to a new media landscape that is more complex than scholars have previously acknowledged." -Paul Julian Smith, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center of City University of New York

Spis treści

Introduction: Television Formats--A Global Framework for TV Studies  Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf  I. Format Theories and Global Television  1. More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance  Vinicius Navarro  2. Calling Out Around the World: The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats  Dana Heller  3. Television Formats and Contemporary Sports  Tony Schiarto  4. A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasure  Eddie Brennan  5. Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the Sitcom: WPBT-PBS's Que Pasa USA?  Yeidy M. Rivero  II. Transnational Formats: Historical Perspectives  6. From Discrete Adaptations to Hard Copies: The Rise of Formats in European Television Jerome Bourdon  7. "National Mike": Global Host and Global Formats in Early Italian Television Chiara Ferrari 8. Telenovelas in Brazil: From Traveling Scripts to a Genre and Proto-Format both National and Transnational  Joseph Straubhaar 9. Reversal of Fortune? Hollywood Faces New Competition in Global Media Trade  Paul Torre  III. Case Study: The Idol Franchise  10. Idol Worship: Ethnicity and Difference in Global Television  Biswarup Sen  11. NZ Idol: Nation Building through Format Adaptation  Joost De Bruin  12. Global Television Formats in Africa--Localizing Idols Martin Nkosi Ndlela  13. We Are the World: American Idol's Global Self-Posturing Erica Jean Bochanty-Aguero  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  Marwin M. Kraidy  15. A Revolution in Television and a Great Leap Forward for Innovation? China in the Global Television Format Business Michael Keane  16. Global Television Formats and the Political Economy of Cultural Adaptation: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in India  Lauhona Ganguly   17. Global Franchising, Gender, and Genre: The Case of Domestic Reality Television  Sharon Sharp  18. Reiterational Texts and Global Imagination: Television Strikes Back  Tasha Oren