2019 - 2020

0851-9066-01
  Television and Globalization: Cultural Relationships in Exchange                                     
FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
Miriam Miri TalmonMexico - Arts213Sun1600-2000 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  4.0

Course description

This seminar level course discusses theoretical aspects of television in its global and transnational contexts of intercultural exchange and interface. Television has been inextricably bound with global processes, in which the world was compressed in time and place, spatial and cultural borders and boundaries became blurred and challenged, and intercultural interfaces became a staple of a world under globalization. The seminar discusses television texts, genres and formats in this context: telenovela and soap opera, quality television and television drama, reality TV and the sitcom, the impact of transnational and new media on identity discourse as articulated in diverse television genres. We’ll read sources and research processes of import and export of television formats and meanings: Betipul becoming In Treatment, Khatufim [Prisoners of War] becoming Homeland, Wife Swap, American Idol, The Beauty and the Geek and The Bachelor in their adaptations to different cultural contexts, The Latin telenovela Ugly Betty in its American, Israeli and more cultural variants, and the export of original Hebrew language television series such as Shtissel and  Fauda to multi-national consumers through platforms such as Netflix and Amazon.

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