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Author Hughes, Bronwen, author

Title Investigating format : the transferral and translation of televised productions in Italy and England / by Bronwen Hughes
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

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Contents Table of Contents; Foreword; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography
Summary This volume focuses on the transferral of a televised format from the country in which it was originally produced into a wholly different cultural and linguistic ambit. It specifically examines the British police procedural. The Bill which became La Squadra when the format was licensed to be aired on Italian screens. Focusing on one specific institutional field, that of the formal police interview, the book explores the characteristic features and constituent parts of such institutional speech events: namely, the differential distribution of knowledge and rights to knowledge; the asymmetrical and adversarial strategies employed by the dyadic pair made up of interviewer and interviewee; the sequential and interactional features of answers; the legislative framework which governs investigative interviewing in the two countries in which the format was aired; and the place of the interview room scenes in the overall narrative structure of the televised episodes. What emerges from the study is not only an interesting comparison between two languages, cultures and institutions; findings also point to a different perception of reality and authenticity in the two formats being investigated. As such, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics and media studies. The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural analyses presented here serve to illustrate that the global phenomenon of international format transferral is becoming increasingly local, rooted in the culture, language and worldview of the country of arrival
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2017)
SUBJECT Bill (television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014046459
Bill (television program) fast
Subject Television -- Production and direction -- Cross-cultural studies
Television cop shows -- History and criticism -- Cross-cultural studies
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Television cop shows
Television -- Production and direction
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443862752
1443862754