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"This article deals with entertainment in the neo-liberal age. The key aim is to describe the emerging brokering practices of certain entrepreneurs within the entertainment industry in Ghana, and to explore the effects of these practices. On the one hand these entrepreneurs receive sponsorship from ... more
"A través de un estudio sistemático basado en el monitoreo de las producciones de ficción televisiva, este anuario presenta y analiza datos de producción, circulación, distribución y consumo de programas de ficción exhibidos en el 2010 y presenta una síntesis comparativa de lo que fue el añ ... more
"This article aims at understanding the popularity and cultural and social significance of the highly prominent Chinese television show Super Girls’ Voice (the 2005 season), a talent contest largely modeled upon “reality shows” such as American Idol in the United States and Pop Idol in the Uni ... more
"El presente texto es una aproximación básica a distintas cuestiones de la producción de radio que son necesarias para comenzar. No aspira a ser un manual de uso, de esos que tienen pasos a seguir para lograr el éxito, sino todo lo contrario: aspira a ser un texto de guía basado en conocimiento ... more
"Jenseits von Kulturkritik und Rechtfertigungsrhetorik untersucht Joachim Michael die Telenovela als Ergebnis des medialen Umbruchs der lateinamerikanischen Kulturen. Er zeigt, dass die Telenovela mehr als nur ein Format ist – sie markiert eine spezifische Kultur, deren eigentümliche Faszination ... more
"Dieser Band behandelt in sechs Abschnitten Grundlagen, Probleme, Ursachen und Folgen von Markt- und Unternehmensstrukturen in der Unterhaltungsindustrie. Wissenschaftler und Praktiker aus Großbritannien, Schweden, der Schweiz und Deutschland beschäftigen sich mit dem Produktionssektor in Großbri ... more

Telenovelas

Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood (2010), ix, 144 pp.
"Branching off from radionovelas, the telenovela was exported from pre-Castro Cuba during the 1950s. The essays found in Telenovelas covers a broad view of the genre, television's impact in Latino culture, as well as more in-depth discussions of specific telenovelas throughout the Spanish-speaking t ... more

The Business and Cultural Functions of Global Television Fairs

In: Handbuch Unterhaltungsproduktion: Beschaffung und Produktion Von Fernsehunterhaltung
Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2010), pp. 195-208
"While the technical capacity for worldwide television broadcasting has existed at least since 1967, when the live program Our World was beamed to thirty-one countries (Parks, 2003), the cultural challenges facing transnational television exchanges have proved more formidable. Even within a single n ... more
"This article focuses on events surrounding the third season of 'Indian Idol' in order to assess the changing relationship between television, everyday life, and public political discourse in contemporary India. In the summer of 2007, media coverage of Indian Idol focused on how people in Northeast ... more
"Based on a wealth of primary data collected during five years, Reality Television and Arab Politics analyzes how reality television stirred an explosive mix of religion, politics, and sexuality, fueling heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the ... more
"Betty la Fea, the phenomenally popular Colombian telenovela, has been exported as both canned (e.g. either dubbed or unaltered) programming and format to approximately 70 countries, including the recent US prime-time hit Ugly Betty. Guided by an examination of the extended global success of this Co ... more
"The book gives lively and engaging insights into how and why socially sensitive story lines were taken up by different TV programmes from the late 1980s to the 2000s. Drawing on a series of case studies of medicine, health, illness and social problems including breast cancer, mental distress, sexua ... more
"Este artículo presenta los resultados para el año 2008 del capítulo chileno del tercer informe Obitel (Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Ficción televisiva). Estos informes buscan dar cuenta de la producción y exhibición de ficción en la televisión abierta en un formato que permita comparar ... more
"En este manual vamos a dar pistas para reencontrarnos con el drama y tal vez… surja de entre las cenizas aquel viejo amor. Queremos seducirte para que entres al mundo del drama en la radio y te hagas de herramientas compartiendo elementos claves y procedimientos sencillos que te pueden ayudar a a ... more
"This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and ... more