Cultural Specificity in Transnational Television Drama - Welsh and German High-End TV

This book examines two European television industries: those of Germany and Wales. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers in contemporary television landscape, literary and film studies, modern languages, philosophy and economics.

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. The Transnational Realm of High-End TV Drama Production
3. The National TV Industries in Germany and Wales
4. Auditory Diversity through Language in TV Drama
5. Aesthetic Transnationalisation as National Realignment
6. The Youngification of German Television
7. Making Wales Visible
8. Conclusions
Index

About the author

Elke Weissmann is Reader in Television and Film at Edge Hill University, UK. She leads the Television Studies Research Group there and is ECREA editor for Critical Studies in Television. She has published widely on television and her research has been funded by the British Academy for whom she also peer reviews.

Product details

• Authors: Elke (Edge Hill University Weissmann, Weissmann Elke
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032827285
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3282728-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, The arts, Humanities, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Media, Information & Communication Industries