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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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State Actor Policy and Regulation Across the Platform-SVOD Divide
There are rapidly growing concerns worldwide about the impact of content aggregation and distribution through digital platforms on traditional media...
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SVOD: A Place for (Outer) Space?
At the National Space Society’s International Space Development Conference on 26 May 2018, Amazon’s then-CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he had “saved”...
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TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era Transnational Coproduction and Cultural Specificity
This edited collection examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era. Fuelled by the...
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Regulating Discoverability in Subscription Video-on-Demand Services
In recent years, the growing popularity of services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ has raised complex challenges for media policy....
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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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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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Moving across Platforms and Cultures: From BBC to Syfy to Amazon Prime: The Adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle
This chapter details the complex history behind the commissioning and production of an adaptation of Dick’s The Man in the High Castle by Amazon...
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Les de l’Hoquei/The Hockey Girls: From a Catalan Bachelor’s Degree Project to Netflix
Les de l’Hoquei/The Hockey Girls (TV3/Netflix, 2019–present) is a Catalan feminist television drama series that revolves around a women’s roller...
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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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Gender and the Youthification of German Television: Zeit der Geheimnisse/Holiday Secrets and Generational Change in High-End TV Drama
The production of high-end television drama is booming in Germany. What is noticeable in these dramas are the representational changes as far as...
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El Robo del Siglo/The Great Heist: Perpetuating False Territorial Dichotomies in Colombia?
This chapter examines El Robo del Siglo/The Great Heist (2020), a Colombian high-end limited serial that was commissioned by Netflix. This drama...
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Magnífica 70: HBO’s Portrayal of the Brazilian Boca do Lixo Cinema
This chapter analyzes the Brazilian drama series Magnífica 70 (HBO, 2015–18) as one that introduces an essential chapter of Brazil’s cinema history...
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Cultural Production, Indigeneity and Globalisation
Having looked at how ownership configuration affects content, this chapter provides a broader analysis of the economic and socio-cultural...
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Conclusions and Implications for Policy
This chapter offers a cohesive concluding analysis of the study’s findings about configuration, strategy, performance, content decision-making and...
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International Trends
In this chapter, we examine key trends and issues affecting the historic and contemporary development of television production as an international...
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Introduction
The Introduction lays out the background and context for later chapters of this book. It defines what is meant by television production and by...
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Business Performance and Advantages of Takeover
In this chapter, we introduce our case studies and approach to the measurement of business performance. The focus of analysis is on the relationship...
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New Directive, Old Principles: EU Film Policy, Small National Cinemas and the Case of Portugal
In November 2020, at the end of what has most likely been one of the worst years for the film and audiovisual sector across the world due to the...
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SVOD Production in East-Central Europe: Understanding the ‘Streamer Imaginaries’ of Independent Producers
Transnational SVOD services have been redefining and, in many ways, reinforcing centre-periphery hierarchies in the global screen media industries...