Transnational Television Remakes
About this ebook
What happens when a series is remade from one national television system to another? How is cultural translation handled across series and seasons of differing length and scope? What are the narrative and dramaturgical proximities and differences between local and other versions? How does the ready availability of original, foreign series shape an audience’s reception of a local remake? How does the rhetoric of ‘Quality TV’ impact on how these remakes are understood and valued? In answering these and other questions, this volume at once acknowledges both the historical antecedents to transnational trade in broadcast culture, and the global explosion in, and cultural significance of, transnational television remakes since the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum.
About the author
Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of American Smart Cinema (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming Indie Reframed: Women Filmmakers and Contemporary American Independent Cinema.
Constantine Verevis
is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Film Remakes (2006) and co-editor of the forthcoming Transnational Film Remakes.
