| Description |
xii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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Television program genres.
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Television programs -- Social aspects.
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Television and globalization.
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| Added Author |
Oren, Tasha G.
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Shahaf, Sharon.
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| ISBN |
9780415965446 hardback alkaline paper |
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0415965446 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780415965453 paperback alkaline paper |
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0415965454 paperback alkaline paper |
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