1st Edition
Cultural Specificity in Transnational Television Drama Welsh and German High-End TV
1. Introduction
2. The Transnational Realm of High-End TV Drama Production
3. The National TV Industries in Germany and Wales
4. Auditory Diversity through Language in TV Drama
5. Aesthetic Transnationalisation as National Realignment
6. The Youngification of German Television
7. Making Wales Visible
8. Conclusions
Index
Biography
Elke Weissmann is Reader in Television and Film at Edge Hill University, UK. She leads the Television Studies Research Group there and is ECREA editor for Critical Studies in Television. She has published widely on television, and her research has been funded by the British Academy for whom she also peer reviews.
"Elke Weissmann makes a compelling argument against sweeping statements of change by drawing attention to how recent developments in ‘high-end’, transnational TV production are met by existing national structures and conditions. Through comparative analysis of two nuanced case studies, she beautifully illuminates how cultural specificities influence German and Welsh screen production, narratives and aesthetics. The nation must remain a conceptual focus, she rightfully reminds us, even in theorizations of the transnationalization of TV production and distribution."
-- Andrea Esser, King's College London, UK
