{"product_id":"tv-formats-worldwide-localizing-global-programs-9781841503066","title":"TV Formats Worldwide: Localizing Global Programs","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning 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. \u003cem\u003eTV Formats Worldwide \u003c\/em\u003eredresses 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: INTRODUCTION    Chapter 1: Introduction: ‘Descent and Modification’ \u003cbr\u003e Albert Moran   PART II: MODELLING AND THEORY-BUILDING    Chapter 2: Rethinking the Local–Global Nexus Through Multiple Modernities: The Case of Arab Reality Television \u003cbr\u003e Marwan M. Kraidy   Chapter 3: When TV Formats are Translated \u003cbr\u003e Albert Moran   Chapter 4: Imagining the National: Gatekeepers and the Adaptation of Global Franchises in Argentina \u003cbr\u003e Silvio Waisbord and Sonia Jalfin   PART III: INSTITUTIONAL APPROACHES   Chapter 5: Trading in TV Entertainment: An Analysis \u003cbr\u003e Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen and Andreas Will   Chapter 6: The Rise of the Business Entertainment Format on British Television \u003cbr\u003e Raymond Boyle   Chapter 7: Collaborative Reproduction of Attraction and Performance: The Case of the Reality Show Idol \u003cbr\u003e Yngver Njus   Chapter 8: Auditioning for Idol: The Audience Dimension of Format Franchising \u003cbr\u003e Doris Baltruschat   PART IV: COMPARATIVE CROSS-BORDER STUDIES    Chapter 9: Adapting Global Television to Regional Realities: Traversing the Middle East Experience \u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e Pia Majbrit Jensen   Chapter 11: Transcultural Localization Strategies of Global TV Formats: The Office and Stromberg \u003cbr\u003e Edward Larkey   Chapter 12: Tearing Up Television News Across Borders: Format Transfer of News Parody Shows between Italy and Bulgaria \u003cbr\u003e Gabriele Cosentino, Waddick Doyle and Dimitrina Todorova   PART V: NATIONAL IMAGININGS    Chapter 13: Defining the Local: A Comparative Study of News in Northern Ireland \u003cbr\u003e Sujatha Sosale and Charles Munro   Chapter 14: Independent Television Production, TV Formats and Media Diversity in China \u003cbr\u003e Michael Keane and Bonnie Liu   Chapter 15: A Place in the Sun: Global Seriality and the Revival of Domestic Television Drama in Italy \u003cbr\u003e Milly Buonanno   Chapter 16: Idol in a Small Country: New Zealand Idol as the Commoditization of Cosmopolitan Intimacy \u003cbr\u003e Barry King   Chapter 17: From Global to Glocal: Australianizing the Makeover Format \u003cbr\u003e Tania Lewis   Afterword \u003cbr\u003e Manuel Alvarado","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042921906519,"sku":"9781841503066","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841503066.jpg?v=1750956236","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tv-formats-worldwide-localizing-global-programs-9781841503066","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}