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Telenovelas
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood (2010), ix, 144 pp.
"Branching off from radionovelas, the telenovela was exported from pre-Castro Cuba during the 1950s. The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television's impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking t
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The Business and Cultural Functions of Global Television Fairs
In: Handbuch Unterhaltungsproduktion: Beschaffung und Produktion Von Fernsehunterhaltung
Katja Lantzsch, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen, Andreas Will (eds.)
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), pp. 195-208
"While the technical capacity for worldwide television broadcasting has existed at least since 1967, when the live program Our World was beamed to thirty-one countries (Parks, 2003), the cultural challenges facing transnational television exchanges have proved more formidable. Even within a single n
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Handbuch Unterhaltungsproduktion: Beschaffung und Produktion von Fernsehunterhaltung
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), 365 pp.
"Dieser Band behandelt in sechs Abschnitten Grundlagen, Probleme, Ursachen und Folgen von Markt- und Unternehmensstrukturen in der Unterhaltungsindustrie. Wissenschaftler und Praktiker aus Großbritannien, Schweden, der Schweiz und Deutschland beschäftigen sich mit dem Produktionssektor in Großbri
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Ugly Betty Goes Global: Global Networks of Localized Content in the Telenovela Industry
Global Media and Communication, volume 6, issue 2 (2010), pp. 177-197
"Betty la Fea, the phenomenally popular Colombian telenovela, has been exported as both canned (e.g. either dubbed or unaltered) programming and format to approximately 70 countries, including the recent US prime-time hit Ugly Betty. Guided by an examination of the extended global success of this Co
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Telenovelas und kulturelle Zäsur: Intermediale Gattungspassagen in Lateinamerika
Top Insights
Bielefeld: transcript (2010), 400 pp.
"Jenseits von Kulturkritik und Rechtfertigungsrhetorik untersucht Joachim Michael die Telenovela als Ergebnis des medialen Umbruchs der lateinamerikanischen Kulturen. Er zeigt, dass die Telenovela mehr als nur ein Format ist – sie markiert eine spezifische Kultur, deren eigentümliche Faszination
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Becoming Extra-Ordinary: Negotiation of Media Power in the Case of 'Super Girls’ Voice' in China
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (2010), pp. 256-272
"This article aims at understanding the popularity and cultural and social significance of the highly prominent Chinese television show Super Girls’ Voice (the 2005 season), a talent contest largely modeled upon “reality shows” such as American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the Uni
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Cómo recuperar un viejo amor: Dramatizados en la radio
Key Guidance
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2009), 78 pp.
"En este manual vamos a dar pistas para reencontrarnos con el drama y tal vez… surja de entre las cenizas aquel viejo amor. Queremos seducirte para que entres al mundo del drama en la radio y te hagas de herramientas compartiendo elementos claves y procedimientos sencillos que te pueden ayudar a a
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La risa en la radio popular
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2009), 51 pp.
Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2009), 17 pp.
"This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and
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Melodrama, subjetividad e historia en el cine y televisión chilenos de los 90
Santiago de Chile: Facultad de Comunicaciones Universidad Católica de Chile (2009), 304 pp.
Mercados globales, historias nacionales
Barcelona: Gedisa (2009), 203 pp.
Evolución de la ficción en la televisión abierta chilena
Cuadernos de Informacion, issue 24 (2009), pp. 87-101
"Este artículo presenta los resultados para el año 2008 del capítulo chileno del tercer informe Obitel (Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Ficción televisiva). Estos informes buscan dar cuenta de la producción y exhibición de ficción en la televisión abierta en un formato que permita comparar
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Global TV: Exporting Television and Culture in the World Market
New York: New York University Press (2008), xv, 259 pp.
"A reporter for the Los Angeles Times once noted that “I Love Lucy is said to be on the air somewhere in the world 24 hours a day.” That Lucy’s madcap antics can be watched anywhere at any time is thanks to television syndication, a booming global marketplace that imports and exports TV shows.
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Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2008), xxii, 177 pp.
Telenovela: Um olhar do cinema
São Paulo: Summus Editorial (2008), 151 pp.
"Neste livro, José Roberto Sadek mostra que as telenovelas são uma maneira moderna de contar histórias. O autor baseia-se em estudos consagrados sobre as narrativas do cinema clássico e os aplica às telenovelas, mostrando ângulos pouco conhecidos. Na primeira parte do livro, traça um breve hi
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Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
Austin: University of Texas Press (2008), x, 245 pp.
"In this first comprehensive analysis of telenovelas and narco-dramas, Hugo Benavides assesses the dynamic role of melodrama in creating meaningful cultural images to explain why these genres have become so successful while more elite cultural productions are declining in popularity. Benavides offer
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TV-Serien: Schreiben fürs Fernsehen
Andrea von Struve; Petra Post (Übs.)
Frankfurt am Main: Zweitausendeins (2008), 240 pp.
Hitlers nützliche Idole: Wie Medienstars sich in den Dienst der NS-Propaganda stellten
Mario Sporn (red.)
München: Goldmann (2008), 331 pp.
"Heinz Rühmann, Hans Albers, Marika Rökk, Max Schmeling, Heinrich George und Leni Riefenstahl – die Schauspieler, die Regisseurin und der Jahrhundertboxer –, sie gehörten zu den großen Stars der NS-Zeit. Warum konnten oder wollten sie sich der Instrumentalisierung durch die braunen Machthabe
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Russian Television Today: Primetime Drama and Comedy
London: Routledge (2008), 244 pp.
"Examining the role of dramatized narratives in Russian television, this book stresses the ways in which the Russian government under Putin use primetime television to express a new understanding of what it means to be Russian, answering key questions of national identity for modern Russians in deal
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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) (2008), 45 pp.
"What are the effects of television, and of role models portrayed in TV programs, on individual behavior? We focus on fertility choices in Brazil, a country where soap operas (novelas) portray families that are much smaller than in reality. We exploit differences in the timing of entry into differen
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