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It’s a Sin: Cross-Platform Coproduction, Cultural Specificity, and Conflicting Cultures
This chapter examines cultural specificity in the context of a ‘cross-platform’ approach to transnational coproduction. The case study is British...
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Polish Culture? World on Fire, Transnational Coproduction and the Inscription of Cultural Specificity
This chapter studies the BBC/PBS coproduction World on Fire (2019–present) as an example of new high-end transnational television drama that...
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Cultural Metaphor and Cultural Metonymy in Taiwanese Mandarin
This chapter analyzes the four-character eulogistic idioms used for scholars and martyrs at public funerals in Taiwan based on the framework of...
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Cultural Linguistics: Some Disciplinary and Terminological Considerations
Without a doubt, not only through numerous landmark publications (e.g., Sharifian 2003, 2011, 2015, 2017a, b), Farzad Sharifian has shaped the field...
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Cultural Metaphors of Animals in Persian Culture, Literature, and Myths
Animals and expressions using animals play an important part in colloquialisms and cultural references. The analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics...
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Cultural Categorizations of Men in a Notorious Online Community
This chapter applies Cultural-Linguistic theory in the study of the language and underlying conceptualizations within an online community of some...
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Introduction: Understanding Comedy as a Cultural Industry
This opening chapter will discuss the importance of understanding comedy as a cultural industry, as well as outlining some of the debates around...
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Digital Visuality Is the Mirror of Cultural Milieu
2018–2019 saw the creation and propagation of new memes in online discourse with the growing use of digital modes of communication. Globally, new...
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The Cultural Heritage of Dance and Research Practice
In this chapter, the current official understanding of intangible cultural heritage and cultural practices will be presented as an introduction to...
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Performative Doing as a Living Archive of Cultural Practices
Within the context of the preceding terminological and conceptional framing of the definitions of an intangible cultural heritage, as well as of the...
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Community Management of Local Cultural Assets: Implications for Inequality and Publicness
Rex offers a much-needed examination of the application of the community asset transfer (CAT) process to cultural infrastructure in England. CAT is...
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Japanese Approach and Practice for Cultural Heritage in Post-disaster Situations
This paper is an overview of the institutional positioning and history of implementation of disaster countermeasures for cultural properties in...
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Atiye/The Gift: Narrating Cultural Diversities as Spiritual Fantasy in an Authoritarian Climate
This chapter examines Netflix Turkey serial The Gift (2019–21) with the objective of shedding light onto the ways in which it addresses international...
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Whose Lost Bullet? Netflix, Cultural Politics and the Branding of French Action Cinema
The recent appearance of French-language action films on Netflix should be seen as an extension of industrial reforms of the 1990s and 2000s, when...
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CODA: Transmedia Cultural History, Convergence Culture, and the Future of Adaptation Studies
Adaptation studies, whether situated in literary or media studies, lacks a coherent model that illustrates how many adaptations of the same story...
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Multiplatform TV, the Cultural Diversification of High-End Drama, and New Coproduction Strategies
This chapter examines key elements of the institutional, economic, and industrial contexts that are fuelling the cultural diversification of...
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Conformity and Contestation in Cultural Production
For China’s cultural sectors, maintaining ideological unity at home and improving national image abroad are now key objectives of recomposing...
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Counter-Cultural-Memory: Performative Strategies of Arts Management and Cultural Policy for the Caribbean
Taking the last decade of visual arts practices within the Caribbean, this chapter looks at the inter-connected articulation and synergies within...
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Introduction: The Unwritten Rules of Cultural Production in China
This chapter introduces the key lines of inquiry to be discussed in the book. Since 2014, President ** has envisioned a cultural approach...
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‘Policies Aren’t Pieces of Paper’: Tussles and Tactics in Action-Oriented and Agile Cultural Policy Research
Too often policies are thought of decrees, immovable objects, binding forces, and something that is delivered and received rather than made and...