Television Across Asia
Subtitle: TV Industries, Programme Formats and Globalisation
Contributors: Keane, Michael
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780203180518
Subjects: Television broadcasting
Description: This book explores the trade in television program formats, which is a crucially important ingredient in the globalisation of culture, in Asia.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Television formats in the world/the world of television formats; Asia: new growth areas; Feeling glocal: Japan in the global television format business; A local mode of programme adaptation: South Korea in the global television format business; Cloning, adaptation, import and originality: Taiwan in the global television format business; Coping, cloning and copying: Hong Kong in the global television format business.; title: A revolution in television and a great leap forward for innovation? China in the global television format businessLet the contests begin! 'Singapore slings' into action: Singapore in the global television format business; Copied from without and cloned from within: India in the global television format business; Closing the creativity gap renting intellectual capital in the name of local content: Indonesia in the global television format business; Reformatting the format: Philippines in th.