Joost De Bruin

Adapting Idols

Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format
Herausgeber: Zwaan, Koos

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the first series of Pop Idol aired in the UK just over a decade ago, Idols television shows have been broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world. In all those countries the global Idols format has been adapted to local cultures and production contexts, resulting in a plethora of different versions, ranging from the Dutch Idols to the Pan-Arab Super Star and from Nigerian Idol to the international blockbuster American Idol. Despite its worldwide success and widespread journalistic coverage, the Idols phenomenon has received only limited academic attention. Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format brings together original studies from scholars in different parts of the world to identify and evaluate the productive dimensions of Idols. As one of the world's most successful television formats, Idols offers a unique case for the study of cultural globalization. Chapters discuss how Idols shows address particular national or regional identity politics and how Idols is consumed by audiences in different territories. This book illustrates that even though the same television format is used in countries all over the globe, practices of adaptation can still result in the creation of unique local cultural products.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781409441694
• ISBN-10: 1409441695
• Artikelnr.: 42349655

Autorenporträt

Joost de Bruin

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Adapting Idols, Joost de Bruin and Koos Zwaan; Part I Adapting
the Global Idols Format: Strategic behaviour in the international
exploitation of TV formats: a case study of the Idols format, Sukhpreet
Singh and Martin Kretschmer; How media system rather than culture
determines national variation: Danish Idols and Australian Idol compared,
Pia Majbritt Jensen; Articulations of national, regional and ethnic
identities in official Idols websites, Joost de Bruin; The search for an
Asian Idol: the performance of regional identity in reality television,
Jinna Tay; 'Accept no limitations': expressions of diasporic identity in
Nigerian Idol, Tess Conner. Part II Politics of Identity in Idols Shows: An
idol against his will? Ethnicity and cultural inclusion in Czech Search for
a Superstar, Václav Štetka; The power of imitation in Music Idol: popular
music and cultural agency in post-Socialist Bulgaria, Plamena Kourtova;
Does race matter to generation Y? The politics of identity in Australian
Idol, Henk Huijser; Superstar and Middle Eastern political identities, Mary
Ghattas; Fandom, politics and the Super Girl contest in a globalized China,
Jeroen de Kloet and Stefan Landsberger. Part III Producing and Consuming
Idols: Can a zero become a hero? Comparing personal characteristics of
audition and live show contestants of the Dutch Idols, Koos Zwaan and Tom
ter Bogt; Are you a musician? The rock ideology and the construction of
authenticity on Australian Idol, Nicholas Carah; Gender performance in
American Idol, Pop Idol and The X Factor, Ruth A. Deller; Watching without
voting: Norwegian child audiences questioning Idols' ethos, Vebjÿrg
Tingstad; Our own Idols: appropriations of popular television in Dutch
festivity culture, Stijn Reijnders, Gerard Rooijakkers and Liesbet van
Zoonen; Appendix; Index.