LEADER 03960nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910815309603321 005 20240313031518.0 010 $a1-283-59946-5 010 $a9786613911919 010 $a0-7391-4674-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241733 035 $a(EBL)1021894 035 $a(OCoLC)855502130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000710981 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12315786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000710981 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10682514 035 $a(PQKB)10673344 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1021894 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1021894 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602216 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL391191 035 $a(PPN)193965631 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241733 100 $a20101015d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aAmerican remakes of British television $etransformations and mistranslations /$fedited by Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7391-4672-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Methods and Mechanics; 1 British Television in the American Marketplace; 2 No Contest: American Idol and the Culture of Competition; 3 Americanization, Hollywoodization, or English-Language Market Variation? Comparing British and American Versions of Cracker; 4 A Hollywood Gamble: Blackpool, Viva Laughlin, and the Failed Mechanics of Americanization; II: Personal and Political; 5 Public Education: What Not To Wear in the United Kingdom and the United States 327 $a6 "Making Do" vs. "Making Anew": What Not to Wear in Britain and America7 "There's nowt as Queer as Folk": British and American Televisual Approaches to the Politics of Homosexuality; 8 Friend, Boss, and Entertainer? The Embattled Self as a Guiding Theme in the British and American Productions of The Office; III: Text and Context; 9 Memory and the 1996 American Remake of Doctor Who; 10 Memories of Mars: Life on Mars and the Discursive Practices of Memory; 11 Translating the Hyperreal (Or How the The Office Came to America, Made Us Laugh, and Tricked Us into Accepting Hegemonic Bureaucracy) 327 $a12 Come On Over! The African Americanization of Steptoe and SonIndex; About the Contributors 330 $aAmerican Remakes of British Television: Transformations and Mistranslations, edited by Carlen Lavigne and Heather Marcovitch, is an international, multidisciplinary collection exploring a specific set of television remakes (including The Office, Life on Mars, Sanford and Son, What Not to Wear, and others) through the lenses of communications studies, English, history, psychology and cultural studies. What does it mean to remake a television program? What does the process of 'Americanization' entail? What might the success or failure of a remade series tell us about the differences between Amer 606 $aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aTelevision programs$zGreat Britain 606 $aTelevision remakes$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects 615 0$aTelevision programs 615 0$aTelevision remakes$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a791.45/75 701 $aLavigne$b Carlen$f1976-$01651290 701 $aMarcovitch$b Heather$f1969-$01624907 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815309603321 996 $aAmerican remakes of British television$94001147 997 $aUNINA