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Transnational Television Remakes book cover

1st Edition

Transnational Television Remakes

Edited By Claire Perkins, Constantine Verevis Copyright 2016
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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Providing a cross-cultural investigation of the current phenomenon of transnational television remakes, and assembling an international team of scholars, this book draws upon ideas from transnational media and cultural studies to offer an understanding of global cultural borrowings and format translation. While recognising the commercial logic of global television formats that animates these... Read more

Introduction: Transnational television remakes Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis

Part I: Genres

1. Television format traffic-public service style Albert Moran

2. From The Office to Stromberg: adaptation strategies in German television Lothar Mikos

3. Trafficking in TV crime: remaking Broadchurch Sue Turnbull

Part II: Politics

4. Remapping socio-cultural specificity in the American remake of The Bridge Jennifer Forrest and Sergio Martínez

5. Between Homeland and Prisoners of War: remaking terror Anat Zanger

6. The show that refused to die: the rise and fall of AMC’s The Killing Kim Akass

Part III: Value

7. Appreciating Wallander at the BBC: producing culture and perfoming the glocal in the UK and Swedish Wallanders for British public service television Janet McCabe

8. ‘Whose side are you?’ The Slap (2011/2015) Constantine Verevis

9. Translating the television ‘treatment’ genre: Be’Tipul and In Treatment Claire Perkins

Biography

Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of American Smart Cinema (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming Indie Reframed: Women Filmmakers and Contemporary American Independent Cinema.

Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Film Remakes (2006) and co-editor of the forthcoming Transnational Film Remakes.

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