Take a Look at the Lawman: Interrogating Critical Responses to the US Version of Life on Mars
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 9y7z5
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- New Patterns in Global Television Formats
- Publisher
- Intellect
- ISBN
- 9781783207121
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This peer-reviewed chapter uses the US version of Life on Mars (ABC, 2008-2009) as a production case-study to examine the ways in which audiences become emotionally attached to characters and stories in particular televisual forms, analysing online examples of viewer responses to the show.
Hogg selected a purposive sample of online viewer comments, based on the intensity of emotional response in the language employed, connecting to the aforementioned primary objective of the chapter.
Whilst employing a single production example to anchor the analysis, Hogg’s argument can be applied to UK-to-US TV drama format ‘translations’ more broadly, as it investigates how this complex production process relates to the existing conceptual frameworks of Adaptation Studies and format research. In so doing, the chapter challenges the predominating discourses of the ‘trans-national’ and the ‘trans-cultural’ within Format Studies at the time of its publication, instead highlighting the enduring significance of notions of the national as a lens through which viewers still interpret, enjoy and connect with television drama. As such, the chapter contributes critical insights to Television Studies and to format research more specifically, considering the intersections between television formats, cross-cultural adaptation and global television markets.
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- Non-English
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