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  • Understanding the Global TV Format

    Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatization of service, the adaptation of successful and popular TV formats from one place to another is occurring on an increasingly regular basis. Hence, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • New Flows in Global TV

    by Albert Moran ...
    Although TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value over the past fifty years, there is a systematic lack of both curiosity and knowledge on the part of both industry and scholars about this area. This book assists in the filling of this gap by studying what, in fact, occurs in global trade in TV program formats within international markets such as Cannes, Las Vegas and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Film Policy

    International, National and Regional Perspectives

    Edited by Albert Moran ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    Film Policy is the first comprehensive overview of the workings of the international film industry. The authors examine film cultures and film policy across the world, explaining why Hollywood cinema dominates the global film market, and the effects of the rise of television and video on the international industry.In a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian and New Zealand Cinema

    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    Filmmakers have honed their skills and many have achieved critical and popular success at home and abroad, as have actors and other crew. American filmmakers and companies have found it cheaper to make films in Australia because wages and salaries are lower, tax rebates have been attractive and the expertise in most areas of filmmaking is comparable to that of anywhere in the world. At the same ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • TV Format Mogul

    Reg Grundy's Transnational Career

    by Albert Moran ...
    Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international borders. In TV Format Mogul, Albert Moran traces the history of this phenomenon through the lens of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • TV Formats Worldwide

    Localizing Global Programs

    Edited by Albert Moran ...
    Beginning around 2003, the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows has dominated the field of television studies. However, concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance and heralds the emergence of an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Watching Films

    New Perspectives on Movie-Going, Exhibition and Reception

    Edited by Karina Aveyard, Albert Moran ...
    Whether we stream them on our laptops, enjoy them in theatres or slide them into DVD players to watch on our TVs, movies are part of what it means to be socially connected in the twenty-first century. Despite its significant role in our lives, the act of watching films remains an area of social activity that is little studied and thus, little understood.In Watching Films, an international cast of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cultural Adaptation

    Edited by Albert Moran, Michael Keane ...
    Cultural borrowing is exploding across the world. Creative ideas are transferred and modified in ever increasing number and complexity making new products ranging from TV shows to architectural style in new cities. But what do we really know about the spread of creative ideas? This intriguing, engrossing, and comprehensive collection looks at the cultural and commercial dimensions of creative ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Television Across Asia

    TV Industries, Programme Formats and Globalisation

    Edited by Michael Keane, Albert Moran ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book explores the trade in television program formats, which is a crucially important ingredient in the globalisation of culture, in Asia. It examines how much traffic there is in program formats, the principal direction of flow of such traffic, and the economic and cultural significance of this trade for the territories involved, and for the region as a whole. It shows how new technology, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • American Remakes of British Television

    Transformations and Mistranslations

    Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Australian Radio and Television

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Locating Migrating Media

    Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries ... Read more

    $105.29 USD