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Global television : co-producing culture

Explores the ways international co-productions such as Highlander: The Series and The Odyssey are changing television into a transnational commodity. Barbara Selnick examines the particular processes by which the international circulation of culture takes place, while addressing larger cultural issues such as identity formation
Print Book, English, 2008
Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2008
xi, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
9781592135035, 9781592135042, 159213503X, 1592135048
183392734
Introduction : McTelevision in the global village
History without nation : global fiction
Clear, strong brands : British television as a marketing tool
The three C's : children, citizenship and co-production
Global truths : documentaries for the world
Conclusion : tranculturation or the expansion of modern capitalism