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The Commercialization of Da'wah: Understanding Indonesian Sinetron and Their Portrayal of Islam
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 4-5 (2014), pp. 340-359
"The impact of media industrialization on mediated religious expression all over the world has been substantial, and this study tries to understand the Indonesian case by looking at the intersections between commerce and Islamic expression. Focusing on Indonesian Islamic sinetron (soap operas), we s
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How Structure Shapes Content, or Why the 'Hindi Turn' of Star Plus Became the 'Hindu Turn'
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 4 (2014), pp. 473-490
"Why was there in the year 2000 a significant shift in the representation of families on Indian soap operas, from middle-class nuclear families with independent working women to upper-class joint families with only homemakers; and from milieus in which the religion of the characters was incidental,
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2014: Transmedia Production Strategies in Television Fiction
Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2014), 536 pp.
"The structure of this Yearbook is divided in three parts. The first part is an introduction chapter that makes a comparative synthesis of fiction in Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows us to observe fiction development in each countr
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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.
"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop
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"Ganz Brasilien glotzt Globo": Telenovelas in Brasilien. Ein Vergleich mit Mexiko
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), ix, 800 pp.
Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women's Marital Intentions
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 2 (2013), pp. 308-330
"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption
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Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory Obitel 2013: Social Memory and Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries
Porto Alegre: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2013), 523 pp.
"The first part, “Fiction in the Ibero-American Space”, presents a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative perspective that allows to observe the development of fiction in each country, highlighting their main producti
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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
Top Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp.
"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has sin
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Nonfiction-Formate für TV, Online und Transmedia: Entwickeln, präsentieren, verkaufen
Konstanz; München: UVK (2013), 147 pp.
"Der Bedarf an non-fiktionalen Unterhaltungsformaten ist groß: Er beschränkt sich nicht mehr nur auf das klassische »On Air«-Fernsehen, sondern erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zusätzliche, onlinefähige Medienkanäle, die über Computer, Smartphones oder Tablets abgerufen werden können. Das erste
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Nationalism and Preferences for Domestic and Foreign Animation Programmes in China
International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 2 (2013), pp. 225-245
"Since China implemented animation control policies in 2004, foreign animation programmes have almost disappeared from Chinese television. At the same time, the Chinese government has invested enormous amounts of money in developing the animation industry as a creative industry. A questionnaire surv
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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1
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Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
New York; London: Routledge (2013), xi, 301 pp.
"In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines: paradigms of gl
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.
Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women’s Marital Intentions
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 1-2 (2013), 23 pp.
"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption
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The Korean Wave: Korean Media Go Global
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xvi, 233 pp.
"Since the late 1990s South Korea has emerged as a new center for the production of transnational popular culture – the first instance of a major global circulation of Korean popular culture in history. Why popular (or not)? Why now? What does it mean socially, culturally and politically in a glob
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Ibero-American Observatory on Television Fiction Obitel 2012: Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries
São Paulo: Sulina;Globo Comunicação e Participações (2012), 618 pp.
The general analysis of this Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introductory chapter that contains a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view that makes it possible to observe the developmen
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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.
"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy
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Telenovelas / culebrones / novelas (das oito) / suds/sudsers — téléromans / feuilletons télévisés — teleromanzi / romanzi sceneggiati: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie der Sekundärliteratur
Medienwissenschaft (Hamburg), volume 143 (2012), 577 pp.
"Die nachstehende Bibliographie versammelt Sekundarliteratur zur 'Telenovela' als einem seriellen melodramatischen Fernsehformat, sowohl dem Begriff als auch dem blosen Wort nach. Das bedeutet: es findet sich auch Literatur verzeichnet, deren Gegenstande von unterschiedlichen Experten nicht oder nur
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Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium
New Delhi et al.: Penguin (2012), xix, 353 pp.
