New Patterns in Global Television Formats

Karina Aveyard is a lecturer in the School of Film, Television and Media at the University of East Anglia. Her essays have been published in Media International Australia, Participations and Studies in Australasian Cinema, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming collection titled Watching Films: New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception (Intellect Books, 2013) Karina’s research interests include rural and community cinemas, exhibition and distribution and Australian films.

Acknowledgements



Foreword



Toby Miller



Introduction: A Changing Format Mosaic



Karina Aveyard, Pia Majbritt Jensen and Albert Moran



Part 1: Overviews



Chapter 1: Television Format as a Transnational Production Model



Mats Nylund



Chapter 2: The Hybrid Status of Global Television Formats



Claudio Coletta



Chapter 3: Formatting Reality: On Reality Television as a Format, a Genre and a Meta-Genre



Daniel Biltereyst and Lennart Soberon



Chapter 4: Seventy Years in the Making: The Advent of the Transnational Television Format Trading System



Jean K. Chalaby



Part 2: History



Chapter 5: Medea’s Children: The Italian Version of The War of the Worlds



Milly Buonanno



Chapter 6: Cultural Negotiation in an Early Programme Format: The Finnish Adaptation of Romper Room



Heidi Keinonen



Chapter 7: Song Contests in Europe during the Cold War



Yulia Yurtaeva and Lothar Mikos



Chapter 8: “Do It, but Do It Dancing!”: Television and Format Adaptations in Colombia in the 1980s and Early 1990s



Hernan David Espinosa‑Medina and Enrique Uribe‑Jongbloed



Part 3: Industry Players, Big and Small



Chapter 9: From Marginal Trader to Corporate Giant: The Emergence of FremantleMedia



Albert Moran and Karina Aveyard



Chapter 10: Formats and Localization in the Children’s Audiovisual Sector



Jeanette Steemers



Chapter 11: Wallander at the BBC: Trading Fiction Formats and Producing Culture for UK Public Service Broadcasting in the Contemporary Age



Janet McCabe



Chapter 12: Television Formats as Media Ritual Work Practices: Discourses of Freedom, Nationalism and Good Neighbours



Tiina Räisä



Part 4: Territories and Markets



Chapter 13: The Social Contexts of Format Adaptation: Remaking Formats to Fit in China



Michael Keane and Coco Ma



Chapter 14: The Political Economy of Television Formats in Africa: The Case of Big Brother and Idols



Martin Nkosi Ndlela



Chapter 15: Global Reality Television and the Concept of Recursion: Idols in African Contexts



Tess Conner



Chapter 16: Decentring Innovation: The Israeli Television Industry and the Format-driven Transnational Turn in Content Development



Sharon Shahaf



Part 5: Producers and Audiences



Chapter 17: Take a Look at the Lawman: Interrogating Critical Responses to the US Version of Life on Mars



Christopher Hogg



Chapter 18: Sense of Place: Producers and Audiences of International Drama Format at The Bridge



Annette Hill



Chapter 19: The Duality of Banal Transnationalism and Banal Nationalism: Television Audiences and the Musical Talent Competition Genre



Andrea Esser, Pia Majbritt Jensen, Heidi Keinonen and Anna Maria Lemor



Chapter 20: The Voice of Queer Italy: The Politics of the the Representation of GLBTQI (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersexual) Characters in Italian Talent Shows and Their Reception in Online Discussions



Elisa Giomi and Marta Perrotta



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