American Remakes of British Television

Transformations and Mistranslations
Herausgeber: Lavigne, Carlen; Marcovitch, Heather

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Produktbeschreibung

American Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations, edited by Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch, is an international, multidisciplinary collection exploring a specific set of television remakes (including The Office, Life on Mars, Sanford and Son, What Not to Wear, and others) through the lenses of communications studies, English, history, psychology and cultural studies. What does it mean to remake a television program? What does the process of "Americanization" entail? What might the success or failure of a remade series tell us about the differences between American and British producers and audiences? The analysis in this volume results in a rich and multifaceted overview of approaches to global television studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780739146729
• ISBN-10: 0739146726
• Artikelnr.: 32309474

Autorenporträt

Carlen Lavigne is a professor of communications at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada. Heather Marcovitch is a professor of English at Red Deer College in Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Methods and Mechanics Chapter 3 1.
British Television in the American Marketplace Chapter 4 2. No Contest:
American Idol and the Culture of Competition Chapter 5 3. Americanization,
Hollywoodization, or English-language Market Variation? Comparing British
and American Versions of Cracker Chapter 6 4. A Hollywood Gamble:
Blackpool, Viva Laughlin, and the Failed Mechanics of Americanization Part
7 Part II: Personal and Political Chapter 8 5. Public Education: What Not
To Wear in the United Kingdom and the United States Chapter 9 6. "Making
Do" vs. "Making Anew": What Not To Wear in Britain and America Chapter 10
7. "There's nowt as Queer as Folk": British and American Televisual
Approaches to the Politics of Homosexuality Chapter 11 8. Friend, Boss, and
Entertainer? The Embattled Self as a Guiding Theme in the British and
American Productions of The Office Part 12 Part III: Text and Context
Chapter 13 9. Memory and the 1996 American Remake of Doctor Who Chapter 14
10. Memories of Mars: Life on Mars and the Discursive Practices of Memory
Chapter 15 11. Translating the Hyperreal (Or How The Office Came to
America, Made Us Laugh, and Tricked Us into Accepting Hegemonic
Bureaucracy) Chapter 16 12. Come On Over!: The African-Americanization of
Steptoe and Son Chapter 17 List of Contributors Chapter 18 Index