Transnational Television Remakes - Taylor & Francis Ltd

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 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.