Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence between the US and UK

by Elke Weissmann

Overview

This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the close relationship that drives innovation and quality on both sides of the Atlantic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349334124
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	225
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ELKE WEISSMANN is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Edge Hill University, UK. She is vice-chair of the television studies section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). The research presented here culminates work conducted during her employment as research fellow at the University of Reading for the AHRC-funded project 'British Television Drama and Acquired US Programmes, 1970-2000'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction American and British Television 1970 to 2010 National Specificities and Transnational Success and Failure Transnational Aesthetic Influences and Performance The Development of a New Genre Making Sense of a Transnational Genre: Forensic Science Drama International Co-Productions and their National Location Transnational Origins and National Quality: 'American Quality Drama' Conclusions and Outlook Notes Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'Perhaps one of the strongest points of this excellent book is the realization that despite many creative, industrial and socialcultural entwinements between the UK and US production cultures their output is, still, perceived, critiqued and marketed as a result of an outdated conception of producing entertainment from within and for a singular national culture.' - Kai Hanno Schwind, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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