Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international borders. In TV Format Mogul, Albert Moran traces the history of this phenomenon through the lens of Australian producer Reg Grundy’s transnational career. Beginning in the late 1950s, Grundy bro...

Although TV distribution has undergone a massive increase in volume and value over the past fifty years, there is a systematic lack of both curiosity and knowledge on the part of both industry and scholars about this area. This book assists in the filling of this gap by studying what, in fact, occurs in global trade in TV program formats within international markets such as Cannes, Las Vegas and Singapore. The study investigates key components of this trade, thereby elucidating the crucial...

Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television show how Australia has gone from being a minor and rather parochial player t...

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand. This book is an introduction and guide to the film of Australia and New Zealand.With entries on many exceptional producers, directors, writers and actors, as well as the films indicated above and many others, this reference also presents the early pioneers, ...

Locating Migrating Media details the extent to which media productions, both televisual and cinematic, have sought out new and cheaper shot locations, creative staff, and financing around the world. The book contributes to debates about media globalization, focusing on the local impact of new sites of media production. The book's chapters also question the role that film and television industries and local and regional governments play in broader economic develop and tax incentive...

Ever since Norman Lear remade the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part into All in the Family, American remakes of British television shows have become part of the American cultural fabric. Indeed, some of the programs currently said to exemplify American tastes and attitudes, from reality programs like American Idol and What Not to Wear to the mock-documentary approach of The Office, are adaptations of successful British shows. Carlen Lavigne and H...

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatization of service, the adaptation of successful and popular TV formats from one place to another is occurring on an increasingly regular basis. Hence, the remaking of different national versions of Big Brother and Pop Idol are only part o...

Filmmakers have honed their skills and many have achieved critical and popular success at home and abroad, as have actors and other crew. American filmmakers and companies have found it cheaper to make films in Australia because wages and salaries are lower, tax rebates have been attractive and the expertise in most areas of filmmaking is comparable to that of anywhere in the world. At the same time, Australian audiences still enjoy watching Australian films, making some of them profitable...

Lo importante no es de dónde vienes, sino a dónde llegas.Facundo Morán es una novela que cuenta la vida extraordinaria de un hombre que ha aprendido a darle la vuelta al dolor.Desde su escandalosa huida del asfixiante régimen cubano en los años 80, el meteórico inicio de su carrera como artista en España y después en el mundo, mezclando el atractivo que ejerce sobre todos quienes lo conocen, la vida de Facundo, el personaje principal de esta entretenida hist...

Magnus. Aquel nombre no fue un simple susurro; resonó en la cabeza de Einar con la fuerza de un martillo sobre el yunque, desbaratando pieza a pieza los planes que con tanto cuidado había tejido para su regreso. Con las manos vacías y el peso de un legado en ruinas, Einar se ve obligado a recoger los despojos que la ambición de su rival ha dejado a su paso. Junto a una pequeña y exhausta comitiva, unida más por la necesidad de supervivencia que por la esperanza, deberá emprender un viaje h...

Desde su primera aparición, fieles al propósito de ofrecer un instrumento auxiliar para el estudio de un curso básico de Derecho Mercantil, estas Lecciones exponen los contenidos esenciales de la materia contemplada con concisión en su desarrollo, rigor en su exposición y actualidad en su contenido. El carácter sintético y esencialmente docente de la obra no excluye su interés en el mundo profesional. La precisión y la claridad de su contenido, así como la deliberada ausencia en sus página...

Mucho se ha escrito alrededor del maíz, tanto sobre su valor para la alimentación como respecto de su significado histórico y cultural; Se dice que somos los “hombres de maíz”, sustancia de la que los antiguos dioses prehispánicos formaron a los seres humanos y esto nos hace pensar que está gramínea, no sólo es base de la alimentación en México sino que en más de un sentido define nuestra identidad.