Global television formats : understanding television across borders / edited by Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oren, Tasha G.

Shahaf, Sharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television program genres.

Television programs--Social aspects.

Television programs.

Television and globalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction: Television formats : a global framework for tv studies / Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf

More than copycat television : format adaptation as performance / Vinicius Navarro

Calling out around the world : the global appeal of reality dance formats / Dana Heller

Television formats and contemporary sport / Tony Schirato

A political economy of formatted pleasures / Eddie Brennan

Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the sitcom : WPBT-PBS's "¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?" / Yeidy M. Rivero

From discrete adaptations to hard copies : the rise of formats in European television / Jérôme Bourdon

"National Mike" : global host and global formats in early Italian television / Chiara Ferrari

Telenovelas in Brazil : from traveling scripts to a genre and proto-format both national and transnational / Joseph Straubhaar

Reversal of fortune? : Hollywood faces new competition in global media trade / Paul Torre

Idol worship : ethnicity and difference in global television / Biswarup Sen

NZ idol : nation building through format adaptation / Joost De Bruin

Global television formats in Africa : localizing idol / Martin Nkosi Ndlela

We are the world : American idol's global self-posturing / Erica Jean Bochanty-Aguero

The social and political dimensions of global television formats : reality television in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia / Marwan Kraidy

A revolution in television and a great leap forward for innovation? : China in the global television format business / Michael Keane

Global television formats and the political economy of cultural adaptation : Who wants to be a millionaire? in India / Lauhona Ganguly

Global franchising, gender, and genre : the case of domestic reality television / Sharon Sharp

Reiterational texts and global imagination : television strikes back / Tasha Oren.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415965446

0415965446

9780415965453

0415965454

9780203928653

0203928652

OCLC:

711777316