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Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
New York: New York University Press (2015), x, 390 pp.
"Complex TV offers a sustained analysis of the poetics of television narrative, focusing on how storytelling has changed in recent years and how viewers make sense of these innovations. Through close analyses of key programs, including The Wire, Lost, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars, Curb
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Writing and Producing Radio Dramas
Key Guides
New Delhi et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2015), xix, 293 pp.
"In many—if not most—countries of the modern world, radio is thought of as a provider of music, news, weather reports and traffic situations, but very little else. Yet in parts of the developing world, radio is still extremely important and valuable as a medium for encouraging and teaching life
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Hallyu: Der Boom der südkoreanischen Populärkultur in Asien
"Tatsächlich erfreuen sich koreanische Fernsehserien und Filme sowie die koreanische Popmusik (K-pop) im Ausland, insbesondere in Ost- und Südostasien, ganz unerwartet großer Beliebtheit. In Südkorea selbst ist man stolz darauf, es - zumindest in der eigenen Wahrnehmung - endlich geschafft zu ha
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Entertainment Media Use in Qatar: Survey Results
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 15 pp.
"This publication covers attitudes toward, and behavior pertaining to, entertainment media among residents in Qatar [...] These results suggest notable differences among the nationalities living in Qatar with regard to their attitudes, preferences and behaviors related to entertainment media. In man
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Fernsehen: Jetzt auch als Buch! Das Beste aus der Glotze
München: Knaur (2014), 208 pp.
"Fernsehen ist toll! Es bietet den Zuschauern sieben Tage die Woche, 24 Stunden am Tag ein informatives und unterhaltendes Programm, sagen die einen. Der Satiriker Philipp Walulis aber fragt sich: Wie hoch ist die Einfaltquote?, und zeigt, warum Fernsehen blöd macht und wir es trotzdem lieben. Mit
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Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar Es Salaam
Köln: Köppe (2014), 286 pp.
"In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse a
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Bestiario de la televisión colombiana: Episodios insólitos en 60 años de historia
Bogotá: Aguliar (2014), 221 pp.
Escribiendo series de televisión
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Manantial (2014), 213 pp.
The “politicization” of Turkish Television Dramas
International Journal of Communication, volume 8 (2014), pp. 2462-2483
"Turkish television has undergone a distinctive transformation since the early 2000s in which new regulations, rapid market growth, and political pressures have interacted with and transformed each other. As Turkey set new records in 2013 for the highest number of journalists arrested worldwide, tel
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2014: Transmedia Production Strategies in Television Fiction
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2014), 536 pp.
"The structure of this Yearbook is divided in three parts. The first part is an introduction chapter that makes a comparative synthesis of fiction in Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows us to observe fiction development in each countr
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The Commercialization of Da'wah: Understanding Indonesian Sinetron and Their Portrayal of Islam
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 340-359
"The impact of media industrialization on mediated religious expression all over the world has been substantial, and this study tries to understand the Indonesian case by looking at the intersections between commerce and Islamic expression. Focusing on Indonesian Islamic sinetron (soap operas), we s
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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.
"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop
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How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental,
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"Ganz Brasilien glotzt Globo": Telenovelas in Brasilien. Ein Vergleich mit Mexiko
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), ix, 800 pp.
Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1
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Nonfiction-Formate für TV, Online und Transmedia: Entwickeln, präsentieren, verkaufen
Konstanz; München: UVK (2013), 147 pp.
"Der Bedarf an non-fiktionalen Unterhaltungsformaten ist groß: Er beschränkt sich nicht mehr nur auf das klassische »On Air«-Fernsehen, sondern erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zusätzliche, onlinefähige Medienkanäle, die über Computer, Smartphones oder Tablets abgerufen werden können. Das erste
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Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
New York; London: Routledge (2013), xi, 301 pp.
"In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines: paradigms of gl
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The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 233 pp.
"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture – the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a glob
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