The Format Age

Television's Entertainment Revolution

Jean K. Chalaby (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2015
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-0258-5 (ISBN)

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Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted across the world at any one time, from mundane game shows to blockbuster talent competitions, from factual entertainment to high-end drama. Based on exclusive industry access, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the complex world of the TV format from its origins to the present day.

Chalaby delivers a comprehensive account of the TV format trading system and conceptualizes the global value chain that underpins it, unpicking the corporate strategies and power relations within. Using interviews with format creators, he uncovers the secrets behind the world’s most travelled formats, exploring their narrative structure and cultural meanings.

Jean K. Chalaby is Professor of International Communication at the Department of Sociology, City University London

Contents
Acknowledgements
Tables and Figures
Introduction
Part One: Birth of a New Trade
Chapter 1 TV Formats as an Anglo-American Invention
Chapter 2 The Making of an Entertainment Revolution
Chapter 3 The Advent of The Super-Formats
Part Two: Production and Globalization
Chapter 4 The Formation of the Global Format Trading System
Chapter 5 Nations and Competition: Upgrading Strategies in the TV Format Commodity Chain
Chapter 6 A Globalized Intellectual Property Market: The International Production Model
Part Three: TV Formats: Structuring Narratives
Chapter 7 Journeys and Transformations: Unscripted Formats in the 21st Century
Chapter 8 Talent Competitions: Myths and Heroes for the Modern Age
Chapter 9 Drama without Drama: The Late Rise of Scripted Formats
Conclusion: Trade, Culture and Television
Notes
Personal Communications and Interviews by the Author
References

Reihe/Serie	PGMC - Polity Global Media and Communication series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5095-0258-0 / 1509502580
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-0258-5 / 9781509502585
Zustand	Neuware