Transatlantic Television Drama

Author : Matt Hills,Michele Hilmes,Roberta Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190663148

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In 2014, the UK science-fiction television series Black Mirror was released on Netflix worldwide, quickly becoming a hit with US audiences. Like other beloved British imports, this series piqued Americans' interest with hints of dark comedy, clever plotlines, and six-episode seasons that left audiences frantic for more. In Transatlantic Television Drama, volume editors Michele Hilmes, Matt Hills, and Roberta Pearson team up with leading scholars in TV studies and transnational television to look at how serial dramas like Black Mirror captivate US audiences, and what this reveals about the ways Americans and Brits relate to each other on and off the screen. Focusing on production strategies, performance styles, and audience reception, chapters delve into some of the most widely-discussed programs on the transatlantic circuit, from ongoing series like Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, Orphan Black, and Sherlock, to those with long histories of transnational circulation like Masterpiece and Doctor Who, to others whose transnational success speaks to the process of exchange, adaptation, and cooperation such as Rome, Parade's End, Broadchurch, and Gracepoint. The book's first section investigates the platforms that support British/American exchange, from distribution partnerships and satellite providers to streaming services. The second section concentrates on the shift in meaning across cultural contexts, such as invocations of heritage, genre shifts in adaptation, performance styles, and, in the case of Episodes, actual dramatized depiction of the process of transatlantic television production. In section three, attention turns to contexts of audience reception, ranging from fan conventions and fiction to television criticism, the effects of national branding on audiences, and the role of social media in de- or re-contextualizing fans' response to transnational programs.

Author : Matt Hills,Michele Hilmes,Roberta Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190663124

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Transatlantic Television Drama by Matt Hills,Michele Hilmes,Roberta Pearson Pdf

"This collection explores the current wave of US/UK television dramas, focusing on industry strategies, performance styles, issues of 'quality,' and audience receptions. It covers key programs including Black Mirror, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones and Sherlock. Issues of national identity, streaming services, and transnational fan cultures are all explored"

Author : Vilde Schanke Sundet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030664183

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Television Drama in the Age of Streaming by Vilde Schanke Sundet Pdf

This book examines television drama in the age of streaming—a time when television has been reshaped for national and international consumption via both linear ‘flow’ and on-demand user modes. It builds on an in-depth study of the Norwegian public service broadcaster (NRK) and some of its game-changing drama productions (Lilyhammer, SKAM, blank). The book portrays the formative first decade of television streaming (2010-2019), how new streaming services and incumbent television providers intersect and act in a new drama landscape, and how streaming impacts existing television production cultures, publishing models and industry-audience relations. The analysis draws on insight gained through more than a hundred interviews with television experts and fans, hundreds of hours of observations, and unique access to industry conferences, meetings, working documents, and ratings. The book combines perspectives from production studies, media industry studies, and fan studies to inform its analysis.

Author : Trisha Dunleavy,Elke Weissmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031355851

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TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era by Trisha Dunleavy,Elke Weissmann Pdf

This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the wider international exposure that internet distribution has brought to TV shows, this phase for high-end drama is one of unprecedented budgets and costs, frequent transnational coproduction and increased cultural diversification. While this drama continues to be facilitated by national broadcasters, fuelling the above trio of influences upon it has been the commissioning activity of multinational subscription-video-on-demand (SVoD) providers. This book showcases leading examples of transnational TV drama, produced outside the US, yet involving collaboration with US-owned SVoDs. It foregrounds some new potentials for drama creation in the context of its strategic importance to providers as different as national broadcasters and multinational SVoDs. This book helps to explain why today’s high-end dramas are demonstrating new elements of cultural specificity despite their common objective to engage a diverse international audience.

Author : Luca Barra,Massimo Scaglioni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000264227

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A European Television Fiction Renaissance by Luca Barra,Massimo Scaglioni Pdf

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book first offers an overview of the industrial, policy and cultural context for the renaissance of European television drama over the past decade, based on original comparative research. This research is then supported by case study chapters from the key contexts within which quality European television is being produced, offering a complex and complete picture of the industry’s strengths and limitations, its traditions and trends, its constraints and future perspectives. A European Television Fiction Renaissance is a must-read book for TV scholars working across Europe and beyond in the areas of media studies, international communications and television studies, media industries studies, production studies, European studies, and media policy studies as well as for those with an interest in television drama, Netflix, globalisation, pay TV and on demand.

Author : Ruth McElroy,Caitriona Noonan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137578754

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Producing British Television Drama by Ruth McElroy,Caitriona Noonan Pdf

This book presents a compelling case for a paradigmatic shift in the analysis of television drama production that recentres questions of power, control and sustainability. Television drama production has become an increasingly lucrative global export business as drama as a form enjoys increased prestige. However, this book argues that the growing emphasis on international markets and global players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime neglects the realities of commissioning and making television drama in specific national and regional contexts. Drawing on extensive empirical research, Producing British Television Drama demonstrates the centrality of public service broadcasters in serving audiences and sustaining the commercial independent sector in a digital age. It attends closely to three elements—the role of place in the production of content; the experiences of those working in the sector; and the interventions from cultural intermediaries in articulating and ascribing value to television drama. With chapters examining the evolution of British TV drama, as well as what might be in store in its future, this book offers invaluable insights into the UK as a major supplier of and market for television drama.

Author : Lez Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844578962

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British Television Drama by Lez Cooke Pdf

This widely-respected history of British television drama is an indispensable guide to the significant developments in the area; from its beginnings on the BBC in the 1930s and 40s to its position in the twenty-first century, as television enters a multichannel digital era. Embracing the complete spectrum of television drama, Lez Cooke places programmes in their social, political and industrial contexts, and surveys the key dramas, writers, producers and directors. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition includes new images and case studies, new material on British television drama before 1936, an expanded bibliography and a substantial new chapter that explores the renaissance in the quality, variety and social ambition of television drama in Britain since 2002. Comprehensive and accessible, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the rich history of British television and modern drama.

Author : Elke Weissmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137283948

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Transnational Television Drama by Elke Weissmann Pdf

This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Michael Hammond
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748679645

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Contemporary Television Series by Michael Hammond Pdf

An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those concerned with issues of gender and sexuality, national identity, and reception to industry history and textual analysis. The book also includes British examples of 'quality' serial television emphasizing not only their cultural specificity but also the transnational context in which these programmes operate. Features*Section introductions provide student-friendly explanations of the various approaches and methodologies employed in the book*Chapters are written by an international team of experts in the field of television studies*Ideal for use as a textbook on courses in contemporary television taught at undergraduate level

Author : Max Sexton,Dominic Lees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501359408

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Seeing It on Television by Max Sexton,Dominic Lees Pdf

Seeing It on Television: Televisuality in the Contemporary US 'High-end' Series investigates new categories of high-end drama and explores the appeal of programmes from Netflix, Sky Atlantic/HBO, National Geographic, FX and Cinemax. An investigation of contemporary US Televisuality provides insight into the appeal of upscale programming beyond facts about its budget, high production values and/or feature cinematography. Rather, this book focuses on how the construction of meaning often relies on cultural discourse, production histories, as well as on tone, texture or performance, which establishes the locus of engagement and value within the series. Max Sexton and Dominic Lees discuss how complex production histories lie behind the rise of the US high-end series, a form that reflects industrial changes and the renegotiation of formal strategies. They reveal how the involvement of many different people in the production process, based on new relationships of creative authority, complicates our understanding of 'original content'. This affects the construction of stylistics and the viewing strategies required by different shows. The cultural, as well as industrial, strategies of recent television drama are explored in The Young Pope, The Knick, Stranger Things, Mars, Fargo, The Leftovers, Boardwalk Empire, and Vinyl.

Author : Amanda D. Lotz,Ramon Lobato
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781479816880

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Streaming Video by Amanda D. Lotz,Ramon Lobato Pdf

An international team of experts explores how streaming services are disrupting traditional storytelling. The rise of streaming has dramatically transformed how audiences consume media. Over the last decade, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services, including Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, have begun commissioning and financing their own original movies and TV shows, changing the way and the rate at which content is produced across the globe, from Mexico City to Mumbai. Streaming Video maps this international production boom and what it means for producers, audiences, and storytellers. Through eighteen richly textured case studies, ranging from original Korean dramas on Netflix to BluTV’s experimental Turkish series, the book investigates how streaming services both disrupt and maintain storytelling traditions in specific national contexts. To what extent, and how, are streamers expanding norms of television and film storytelling in different parts of the world? Are streamers enabling the creation of content that would not otherwise exist? What are the implications for different viewers, in different countries, with different tastes? Together, the chapters critically assess the impacts of streaming on twenty-first century audiovisual storytelling and rethink established understandings of transnational screen flows.

Author : Blythe Worthy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031508325

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Adapting Television and Literature by Blythe Worthy Pdf

Author : Mareike Jenner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031392375

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Netflix and the Re-invention of Television by Mareike Jenner Pdf

Author : Glen Creeber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839022104

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The Television Genre Book by Glen Creeber Pdf

In this new edition of The Television Genre Book, leading international scholars have come together to offer an accessible and comprehensive update to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. As television continues to evolve rapidly, this new edition reflects the ways in which TV has transformed in recent years, particularly with the emergence of online streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Amazon Prime. It also includes a new chapter on sports TV, and expanded coverage of horror, political thrillers, Nordic noir, historical documentary and docu-drama. With analyses of popular shows like Stranger Things, Killing Eve, The Crown, Chernobyl, Black Mirror, Fleabag, Breaking Bad and RuPaul's Drag Race, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of television genre for scholars and students alike.

Author : Anna Marie Bautista
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Feminism on television
ISBN : 9781666923018

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Conspicuous Feminism on Television by Anna Marie Bautista Pdf

In this book, Anna Marie Bautista delves into the increased visibility of gender inequality, largely brought about by #MeToo, that has been incorporated into representations on television series, reflecting a 'conspicuous feminism' that is explicit, activist, and commodifying in its consideration of gendered power structures and inequality.