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.
Edited by:
Albert Moran
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781841503066
ISBN 10: 1841503061
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 April 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
