Overview

Beginning around 2003, the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows has dominated the field of television studies. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance and heralds the emergence of an important, exciting, and challenging area of television studies. Topics explored include reality TV, makeover programs, sitcoms, talent shows, and fiction serials, as well as broadcaster management policies, production decision chains, and audience participation processes. This seminal work will be of considerable interest to media scholars worldwide.

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Author:   Albert Moran
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781841503066

ISBN 10:   1841503061
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION    Chapter 1: Introduction: ‘Descent and Modification’  Albert Moran   PART II: MODELLING AND THEORY-BUILDING    Chapter 2: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus Through Multiple Modernities: The Case of Arab Reality Television  Marwan M. Kraidy   Chapter 3: When TV Formats are Translated  Albert Moran   Chapter 4: Imagining the National: Gatekeepers and the Adaptation of Global Franchises in Argentina  Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin   PART III: INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES   Chapter 5: Trading in TV Entertainment: An Analysis  Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will   Chapter 6: The Rise of the Business Entertainment Format on British Television  Raymond Boyle   Chapter 7: Collaborative Reproduction of Attraction and Performance: The Case of the Reality Show Idol  Yngver Njus   Chapter 8: Auditioning for Idol: The Audience Dimension of Format Franchising  Doris Baltruschat   PART IV: COMPARATIVE CROSS-BORDER STUDIES    Chapter 9: Adapting Global Television to Regional Realities: Traversing the Middle East Experience  Amos Owen Thomas   Chapter 10: How National Media Systems Shape the Localization of Formats: A Transnational Case Study of The Block and Nerds FC in Australia and Denmark  Pia Majbrit Jensen   Chapter 11: Transcultural Localization Strategies of Global TV Formats: The Office and Stromberg  Edward Larkey   Chapter 12: Tearing Up Television News Across Borders: Format Transfer of News Parody Shows between Italy and Bulgaria  Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova   PART V: NATIONAL IMAGININGS    Chapter 13: Defining the Local: A Comparative Study of News in Northern Ireland  Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro   Chapter 14: Independent Television Production, TV Formats and Media Diversity in China  Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu   Chapter 15: A Place in the Sun: Global Seriality and the Revival of Domestic Television Drama in Italy  Milly Buonanno   Chapter 16: Idol in a Small Country: New Zealand Idol as the Commoditization of Cosmopolitan Intimacy  Barry King   Chapter 17: From Global to Glocal: Australianizing the Makeover Format  Tania Lewis   Afterword  Manuel Alvarado

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Albert Moran is senior lecturer in media at Griffith University, Brisbane. He is also the author of Understanding the Global TV Format (Intellect, 2006) and New Flows in Global TV (Intellect, 2009).

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