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Ghanaian Entertainment Brokers: Urban Change, and Afro-Cosmopolitanism, with Neo-Liberal Reform
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 227-240
"This article deals with entertainment in the neo-liberal age. The key aim is to describe the emerging brokering practices of certain entrepreneurs within the entertainment industry in Ghana, and to explore the effects of these practices. On the one hand these entrepreneurs receive sponsorship from
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Re-Visiting Latin American Cultural and Media Studies
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-172
"This new issue of Westminster Papers of Communication and Culture is dedicated for the first time to Latin America, and by re-visiting the cultural and communication standpoints undertaken in the region, it will help to address the ongoing questions on globalisation, and cultural hybridisation from
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Religion and Celebrity
Australian Religion Studies Review, volume 24, issue 3 (2011), pp. 227-360
"This issue of Australian Religion Studies Review examines the intersection of religion and celebrity, both major discourses in the modern world. The six articles examine the imbrication of celebrity with: three traditional religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism; the new religion of Candomblé;
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"Ugly Betty" and the Emergence of the Latina/o Producers as Cultural Translators
Communication Theory, volume 21, issue 4 (2011), pp. 392-412
"A critical examination of Betty's adaptation process sheds light on the disjuncture between global television distribution trends and national television markets' business cultures. The process of bringing the "ugly duckling" format to the English-language mainstream media market can be better unde
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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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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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The Business and Cultural Functions of Global Television Fairs
In: Handbuch Unterhaltungsproduktion: Beschaffung und Produktion Von Fernsehunterhaltung
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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Bleiben Sie dran! Dramaturgie von TV-Serien
Konstanz: UVK (2010), 256 pp.
El radiodrama en la comunicación de mensajes sociales: Apuntes teórico-prácticos para la producción integral
Key Guides
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne; Centro de Producciones Radiofónicas (2010), 166 pp.
"El presente texto es una aproximación básica a distintas cuestiones de la producción de radio que son necesarias para comenzar. No aspira a ser un manual de uso, de esos que tienen pasos a seguir para lograr el éxito, sino todo lo contrario: aspira a ser un texto de guía basado en conocimiento
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Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2010), xvi, 252 pp.
"Based on a wealth of primary data collected during five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fueling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the
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Reality TV and Participatory Culture in India
Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (2010), pp. 241-255
"This article focuses on events surrounding the third season of 'Indian Idol' in order to assess the changing relationship between television, everyday life, and public political discourse in contemporary India. In the summer of 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol focused on how people in Northeast
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Telenovelas und kulturelle Zäsur: Intermediale Gattungspassagen in Lateinamerika
Deep Insights
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (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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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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Animación: La magia en movimiento
Santiago de Chile: Pehuén Editores (2010), 201 pp.
Social Issues in Television Fiction
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2010), vi, 200 pp.
"The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexua
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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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Mercados globales, historias nacionales
Barcelona: Gedisa (2009), 203 pp.
Melodrama, subjetividad e historia en el cine y televisión chilenos de los 90
Santiago de Chile: Universidad Católica de Chile, Facultad de Comunicaciones (2009), 304 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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