Adapting Idols: Authenticity, Identity and Performance in a Global Television Format
- Author: Bruin, Joost De
- Editor: Zwaan, Koos
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Contents
- Contents: Adapting Idols, Joost de Bruin and Koos Zwaan
- Part I Adapting the Global Idols Format: Strategic behaviour in the international exploitation of TV formats: a case study of the Idols format, Sukhpreet Singh and Martin Kretschmer
- How media system rather than culture determines national variation: Danish Idols and Australian Idol compared, Pia Majbritt Jensen
- Articulations of national, regional and ethnic identities in official Idols websites, Joost de Bruin
- The search for an Asian Idol: the performance of regional identity in reality television, Jinna Tay
- 'Accept no limitations': expressions of diasporic identity in Nigerian Idol, Tess Conner. Part II Politics of Identity in Idols Shows: An idol against his will? Ethnicity and cultural inclusion in Czech Search for a Superstar, VA!clav A tetka
- The power of imitation in Music Idol: popular music and cultural agency in post-Socialist Bulgaria, Plamena Kourtova
- Does race matter to generation Y? The politics of identity in Australian Idol, Henk Huijser
- Superstar and Middle Eastern political identities, Mary Ghattas
- Fandom, politics and the Super Girl contest in a globalized China, Jeroen de Kloet and Stefan Landsberger. Part III Producing and Consuming Idols: Can a zero become a hero? Comparing personal characteristics of audition and live show contestants of the D
- Are you a musician? The rock ideology and the construction of authenticity on Australian Idol, Nicholas Carah
- Gender performance in American Idol, Pop Idol and The X Factor, Ruth A. Deller
- Watching without voting: Norwegian child audiences questioning Idols' ethos, VebjArg Tingstad
- Our own Idols: appropriations of popular television in Dutch festivity culture, Stijn Reijnders, Gerard Rooijakkers and Liesbet van Zoonen
- Appendix
- Index.