Global television formats : understanding television across borders / edited by Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf.
Contributor(s): Oren, Tasha G
| Shahaf, SharonPublisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2012Description: xii, 392 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm001: 24906ISBN: 9780415965453Subject(s): Television programmes | Television programs -- Social aspects | Television and globalizationDDC classification: 791.45 GLO
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Winner of the 2013 SCMS Best Edited Collection Award
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 media globalization. It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television's contemporary incarnations.
The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Contributors address both little known examples and massive global hits ranging from the Idol franchise around the world, to telenovelas, dance competitions, sports programming, reality TV, quiz shows, sitcoms and more. Looking to global television formats as vital for various cultural meanings, relationships, and structures, this collection shows how formats can further our understanding of television and the culture of globalization at large.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction: Television Formats--A Global Framework for TV Studies
- 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 Sports
- 4 A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasure
- 5 Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the Sitcom: WPBT-PBS's
- II Transnational Formats: Historical Perspectives
- 6 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
- 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
- 13 We Are the World: American Idol's Global Self-Posturing
- 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 Television
- 18 Reiterational Texts and Global Imagination: Television Strikes Back
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