TV Formats Worldwide

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