Global Television: Co-Producing Culture (Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative)
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: June 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781592135035
Subjects: Media studies; Television; Social Science; Sociology; Media Studies - Electronic Media; Television - History & Criticism; Social Science / General; General; Globalization; Influence; Social aspects; Television broadcasting
Description: Explores the ways international co-productions such as Highlander: The Series and The Odyssey are changing television into a transnational commodity. Barbara Selnick examines the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues such as identity formation.