Global Television Formats

Understanding Television Across Borders

By: Sharon Shahaf (Editor), Tasha Oren (Editor)

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Paperback | 23 November 2011 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"An engrossing and highly stimulating collection that provides critical new bearings for television, cultural and globalisation studies in the second decade of the new millennium. The authors offer a highly nuanced and suggestive re-negotiation of the global/local dichotomy that has bedeviled media studies in the past. This is a critically thoughtful and robust challenge to recent scholarly orthodoxies about what is happening to world television. A magisterial collection of critical insights that dares the student and teacher to re-examine what they are seeing on television now." --Albert Moran, Professor of Screen Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia "This extraordinary anthology shows how format TV is transforming the look, feel, and appeal of television in societies around the world. These essays help to expand our understanding of what a format is and how it works, both globally and locally, drawing fascinating connections between commerce, creativity, and the everyday lives of viewers." --Michael Curtin, Mellichamp Chair of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Introduction: Television Formats--A Global Framework for TV Studies
Format Theories and Global Television
More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance
Calling Out Around the World: The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats
Television Formats and Contemporary Sports
A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasure
Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the Sitcom: WPBT-PBS's
Transnational Formats: Historical Perspectives
From Discrete Adaptations to Hard Copies: The Rise of Formats in European Television
"National Mike": Global Host and Global Formats in Early Italian Television
Telenovelas in Brazil: From Traveling Scripts to a Genre and Proto-Format both National and Transnational
Reversal of Fortune? Hollywood Faces New Competition in Global Media Trade
Case Study: The Idol Franchise
Idol Worship: Ethnicity and Difference in Global Television
NZ Idol: Nation Building through Format Adaptation
Global Television Formats in Africa--Localizing
We Are the World: American Idol's Global Self-Posturing
Trans-Formats: Local Articulations and the Politics of Place and Nation
The Social and Political Dimensions of Global Television Formats: Reality Television in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
A Revolution in Television and a Great Leap Forward for Innovation? China in the Global Television Format Business
Global Television Formats and the Political Economy of Cultural Adaptation: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in India
Global Franchising, Gender, and Genre: The Case of Domestic Reality Television
Reiterational Texts and Global Imagination: Television Strikes Back
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