American remakes of British television
Subtitle: transformations and mistranslations
By: edited by Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780739146729; 9780739146743
Subjects: Television remakes; History and criticism; Television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch; title: Methods and mechanics. British television in the American marketplace / Jeanette Steemers; title: No contest : American idol and the culture of competition / Daniel Downes; title: Americanization, Hollywoodization, or English-language market variation? comparing British and American versions of Cracker / Albert Moran; title: A Hollywood gamble : Blackpool, Viva Laughlin, and the failed mechanics of Americanization / Carlen Lavigne; title: Personal and political. Public education : What not to wear in the United Kingdom and the United States / Jennifer Andrews and Priscilla L. Walton; title: "Making do" vs. "making anew" : What not to wear in Britain and America / Lisa Emmerton; title: "There's nowt as Queer as Folk" : British and American televisual approaches to the politics of homosexuality / Silvia Barlaam; title: Friend, boss, and entertainer? the embattled self as a guiding theme in the British and American productions of The office / Janet J. Boseovski and Stuart Marcovitch; title: Text and context. Memory and the 1996 American remake of Doctor Who / Karen Hellekson; title: Memories of Mars : Life on Mars and the discursive practices of memory / Heather Marcovitch; title: Translating the hyperreal (or how The office came to America, made us laugh, and tricked us into accepting hegemonic bureaucracy) / Paul Booth and Brian Ekdale; title: Come on over! : the African-Americanization of Steptoe and son / James W. Martens.