Transnational Television Remakes
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 remakes, the collection describes the traffic in transnational television remakes not as a one-way process of cultural homogenisation, but rather as an interstitial process through which cultures borrow from and interact with one another. More specifically, the chapters attend to recent debates around the transnational flows of local and global media cultures to focus on questions in the televisual realm, where issues of serialisation and distribution are prevalent.
What happens when a series is remade from one national television system to another? How is cultural translation handled across series and seasons of differing length and scope? What are the narrative and dramaturgical proximities and differences between local and other versions? How does the ready availability of original, foreign series shape an audiences reception of a local remake? How does the rhetoric of Quality TV impact on how these remakes are understood and valued? In answering these and other questions, this volume at once acknowledges both the historical antecedents to transnational trade in broadcast culture, and the global explosion in, and cultural significance of, transnational television remakes since the beginning of the twenty-first century.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.
Claire Perkins is Senior 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 and the 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.
Transnational Television Remakes
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Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis
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Contents
Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis
Part I: Genres
Albert Moran
Lothar Mikos
Sue Turnbull
Part II: Politics
Jennifer Forrest and Sergio Martnez
Anat Zanger
Kim Akass
Part III: Value
Janet McCabe
Constantine Verevis
Claire Perkins
The chapters in this book were originally published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
Transnational television remakes
Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 677683
Chapter 1
Television format traffic: public service style
Albert Moran
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 684693
Chapter 2
From The Office to Stromberg: adaptation strategies in German television
Lothar Mikos
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 694705
Chapter 3
Trafficking in TV crime: remaking Broadchurch
Sue Turnbull
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 706717
Chapter 4
Remapping socio-cultural specificity in the American remake of The Bridge
Jennifer Forrest and Sergio Martnez
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 718730
Chapter 5
Between Homeland and Prisoners of War: remaking terror
Anat Zanger
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 731742
Chapter 6
The show that refused to die: the rise and fall of AMCs The Killing
Kim Akass
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 743754
Chapter 7
Appreciating Wallander at the BBC: producing culture and performing the glocal in the UK and Swedish Wallanders for British public service television
Janet McCabe
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 755768
Chapter 8
Whose side are you on? The Slap (2011/2015)
Constantine Verevis
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 769780
Chapter 9
Translating the television treatment genre: BeTipul and In Treatment
Claire Perkins
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (October 2015), pp. 781794
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Kim Akass is Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She has published widely on US television, feminism and motherhood. She is co-editor (with Janet McCabe) of the Reading Contemporary Television
