Television Drama in the Age of Streaming: Transnational Strategies and Digital Production Cultures at the Nrk

ISBN-13: 9783030664206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 160 str.

Vilde Schanke Sundet

Opis

This book examines television drama in the age of streaming—a time when television has been reshaped for national and international consumption via both linear ‘flow’ and on-demand user modes. It builds on an in-depth study of the Norwegian public service broadcaster (NRK) and some of its game-changing drama productions (Lilyhammer, SKAM, blank). The book portrays the formative first decade of television streaming (2010-2019), how new streaming services and incumbent television providers intersect and act in a new drama landscape, and how streaming impacts existing television production cultures, publishing models and industry-audience relations. The analysis draws on insight gained through more than a hundred interviews with television experts and fans, hundreds of hours of observations, and unique access to industry conferences, meetings, working documents, and ratings. The book combines perspectives from production studies, media industry studies, and fan studies to inform its analysis. 

Recenzje

"Sundet provides both historical sources and deep knowledge of contemporary TV scholarship. ... the research presented here is especially ripe for researchers of twenty-first century public service media, since some of the issues - especially those relating to the challenges between nationally-oriented public service media and international/global streaming services -apply to public service broadcasters other than Norwegian NRK." (Kim Toft Hansen, Critical Studies in Television, May 07, 2022)

Spis treści

1. National Television, Drama, and Streaming.- 2. Industry Perceptions of Streaming.- 3. Changing Production Cultures.- 4. Changing Publishing Strategies.- 5. Changing Industry-Audience Relations.- 6. The End of Television and the New Beginning.-  

O autorze

Vilde Schanke Sundet (PhD) is a researcher in media and communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published extensively on topics of television production, media industries, media policy and audiences/Fans, and she is an expert on online drama.

Blurb

“Brilliantly combining production studies with fan studies, Television Drama in the Age of Streaming is state-of-the-art scholarship. Vilde Schanke Sundet has interviewed an array of industry insiders, expertly analysing executives’ strategies, digital flagship productions, and new paradoxes of audience making. Streaming may have shifted contemporary TV drama into a “world championship” of globalised brands, but Sundet reminds us of the need to focus on national and cultural contexts. There’s so much great content in this book, I binged it in one sitting. And now you can too.”

Matt Hills, Professor, University of Huddersfield, UK

“This excellent book engagingly explores why the television industries are changing in the age of streaming and how to think of the implications from a specific national and cultural perspective as well as from an international and transnational point of view. The book is an important contribution to media industry and television studies (or should one now say streaming studies?).”

Eva Novrup Redvall, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

This book examines television drama in the age of streaming—a time when television has been reshaped for national and international consumption via both linear ‘flow’ and on-demand user modes. It builds on an in-depth study of the Norwegian public service broadcaster (NRK) and some of its game-changing drama productions (Lilyhammer, SKAM, blank). The book portrays the formative first decade of television streaming, how streaming services and incumbent television providers intersect and act in a new drama landscape, and how streaming impacts production cultures, publishing models and industry-audience relations. The analysis draws on insight gained through more than a hundred interviews with television experts and fans, hundreds of hours of observations, and unique access to industry conferences, meetings, working documents, and ratings. It combines perspectives from production studies, media industry studies, and fan studies.

Vilde Schanke Sundet (PhD) is a researcher in media and communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published extensively on topics of television production, media industries, media policy, and audiences/fans.