Transnational co-production, multiplatform television and My Brilliant Friend

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-356
Author(s):  
Trisha Dunleavy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Cross Platform

Rai/HBO co-production L’Amica Geniale/ My Brilliant Friend (2018–) provides an illuminating example of changing strategies for transnational drama co-production in television’s burgeoning ‘multiplatform’ era. Foregrounding institutional over textual analysis, the article places My Brilliant Friend ( MBF) within the industrial, creative and cultural contexts that have facilitated it. Important to these contexts is that transnational co-productions between non-US broadcasters and US-based premium networks are not only increasing but also exhibiting a new degree of cultural diversity. The article examines MBF’s origination as a literary adaptation, its genesis as a ‘cross-platform’ co-production, and its exemplification of changing drama commissioning strategies for Rai and HBO.

scholarly journals Towards Culture-Inclusive Criminology in Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Masahiro Suzuki ◽  
Chen-Fu Pai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Us ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Asian Criminology

AbstractMainstream criminology has been mainly developed in the US and other English-speaking countries. With an expansion of criminology outside the English-speaking world, several scholars have started to cast doubts on the applicability of current mainstream criminology in their regions because it has failed to account for cultural differences. This question has led to a call for an “indigenized” criminology, in which knowledge and discourses are derived from or fixed to align with unique cultural contexts in each region. In this vein, Liu (2009, 2016, 2017a, 2017b) has proposed Asian Criminology. While it has significantly contributed to the development of criminology in Asia, we see two challenges in Liu’s Asian Criminology: lack of consideration for cultural diversity within Asia and its focus on the individualism–collectivism continuum. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to developing criminology in Asia, which we call culture-inclusive criminology. It builds on a premise that Asia consists of a variety of cultural zones, and therefore calls for a shift from the Euro-American view on culture towards an understanding of culture in its context. Its goal is to develop indigenized criminologies in each cultural zone of Asia under an umbrella of culture-inclusive criminology.

Foreign settings in the Fascist-era giallo: Italian writers’ creative explorations of criminality and cultural difference

Modern Italy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-176
Author(s):  
Brigid Maher
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Us

The 1930s saw an explosion in the publication of crime writing in Italy, but initially readers’ appetite for crime fiction was fed almost entirely by translated imports from the US, Britain and France. Even as publishers began promoting crime writing by Italians, foreign models and settings remained important, and several early Italian writers set their work in foreign countries. This article, which draws on both textual analysis and archival research, examines some foreign-set novels produced by Italian authors during the Fascist years, and seeks to identify the function and appeal of foreign settings in the depiction of criminality in that period. These books, peopled by exotic ‘Others’, comment on corruption, freedom of the press, cultural diversity, racial difference, policing, criminality, as much at home as abroad. The distant settings offered safety and freedom, as well as escapism or distraction, and the opportunity to experiment with genre.

scholarly journals Understanding Chefchaouen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letizia Dipasquale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Building Culture ◽  
The Relationship

The medina of Chefchaouen represents an architectural heritage of great value and its building culture constitutes a repertoire of knowledge to be safeguarded as an expression of cultural diversity in the relationship between society and nature. The volume presents the results of an in-depth research on the knowledge system that constitutes the local building culture of the medina, highlighting the characteristics of the construction systems, the risks to which the traditional heritage is subject, and its contribution to the development of a sustainable habitat. The book addresses the theme of the built heritage of the medina with an interdisciplinary approach, which includes architecture as part of a system that has to be studied along with the natural, social and cultural contexts.

The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Managing Cultural Diversity in the Modern Workforce

2008 ◽  
pp. 3190-3206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indrawati Nataatmadja ◽  
Laurel Evelyn Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Role Of Information

This chapter demonstrates how managers can use information and communication technology (ICT) more effectively in culturally diverse workforces. Basing our analysis on the cultural dimensions of Hofstede and Hall, we compare a range of ICTs and provide a chart summarizing their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, a framework for developing ICT is proposed, and an example of its application to a global organization is presented. The study shows that none of the existing ICT tools is perfect in all situations and all cultural contexts. Therefore, managers need to provide a variety of ICTs to their employees, and developers should build flexibility into their ICT designs.

scholarly journals ‘Oscar’

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Robert Boucaut
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cumulative Effect ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Academy Awards ◽  
Constructive Work ◽  
Massive Scale ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Different Levels

This article applies a persona studies approach to the case study of the Academy Awards. Key literature is used to situate an ‘Oscar’ persona within existing conceptualisations from the discipline. Oscar represents a composite persona that encapsulates an event, its broadcast, an Academy of individuals, and a larger discursive industry. It is a non-human persona that is coloured by distinctly human elements; it is collectively constructed on a massive scale, the process of which inviting constant contestation. Drawing from these theorisations I conduct a textual analysis to reach a persona reading of Oscar. As collective authors of the persona, members of the Academy, associated performers, and discursive contributors employ three distinct and consistent persona strategies: the Functional, the Spiritual, and the Ironic. Oscar’s taste-making function is enabled by extravagant staging and tempered by expressions of philanthropy yet performed with ironic self-effacement. The cumulative effect of these three performances allows Oscar manoeuvrability across the requirements of the different cultural contexts of each year. As well as providing a unique prism for understanding the Oscars as an institution, this work demarcates different levels of collective persona construction, challenging notions of central authority in production and performance, and accounting for the ongoing constructive work of publics.

Motivating toward organizational commitment: A cross-comparative perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Afshari
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Employee Commitment ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Cultural Contexts

This article investigates how factors that contribute to the development of organizational commitment can be adjusted to take account of cultural diversity among employees, by taking the mediating effects of motivational processes and leadership into account. Survey data were obtained from two similar organizations in two different cultural contexts—Australia and Iran. The findings showed that both intrinsic and identified motivations and leadership are critical to the development of desirable organizational commitment. The introjected form of motivation was found to be the factor that mediates variances in employee commitment between the two cultural contexts. The current study explains this mediation role by referring to the different degrees to which conformity is salient across the two contexts, thereby providing managers, who are working in culturally diverse contexts, a means of understanding how and why different motivational techniques are more or less likely to contribute to the development of organizational commitment. Furthermore, the present study contributes to the existing literature on organizational commitment by comparing and contrasting the nature and prominence of employee commitment profiles in two different cultural contexts.

The Role of Information and Communication Technology in Managing Cultural Diversity in the Modern Workforce

2011 ◽  
pp. 283-304
Author(s):  
Indrawati Nataatmadja ◽  
Laurel Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Role Of Information

This chapter demonstrates how managers can use information and communication technology (ICT) more effectively in culturally diverse workforces. Basing our analysis on the cultural dimensions of Hofstede and Hall, we compare a range of ICTs and provide a chart summarizing their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, a framework for developing ICT is proposed, and an example of its application to a global organization is presented. The study shows that none of the existing ICT tools is perfect in all situations and all cultural contexts. Therefore, managers need to provide a variety of ICTs to their employees, and developers should build flexibility into their ICT designs.

scholarly journals Trevor Noah and the contingent politics of racial joking

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Jennalee Donian ◽  
Nicholas Holm
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Potential Sources ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Clear Line

This article takes up the transnational comedy career of Trevor Noah as a way to explore how the political work of racial comedy can manifest, circulate and indeed communicate differently across different racial-political contexts. Through the close textual analysis of two key comic performances –“The Daywalker” (2009) and “Son of Patricia” (2018), produced and (initially) circulated in South Africa and the USA, respectively – this article explores the extent to which Noah’s comic treatment of race has shifted between the two contexts. In particular, attention is paid to how Noah incites, navigates and mitigates potential sources of offence surrounding racial anxieties in the two contexts, and how he evokes his own “mixed-race” status in order to open up spaces of permission that allow him to joke about otherwise taboo subjects. Rejecting the claim that the politics of Noah’s comedy is emancipatory or progressive in any straightforward way, by means of formal analyses we argue that his comic treatment of race does not enact any singular politics, but rather that the political work of his racial humour shifts relative to its wider political contexts. Thus, rather than drawing a clear line between light entertainment and politically meaningful humour, this article argues that the political valence of racial joking can be understood as contingent upon wider discourses of race that circulate in national-cultural contexts.

Religion in the Afrosphere

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Boutros
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Public Address ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
Blog Posts

The Afrosphere is a diverse field of social media marked by a willingness to engage issues of shared or collective concern for inhabitants of the “Black Atlantic” or the “Black diaspora.” By looking at blogs as a form of public address, this analysis examines instances of religion in the Afrosphere as components of strategic identification around what Stephan Palmié terms “black collective selfhood.” Considering both the technological affordances and cultural contexts of blogging, this analysis explores the intersection of race and religion in the Afrosphere as constitutive of digital counterpublic discourse. Building on textual analysis of blog posts, this analysis outlines how meaning is formed, fixed, and contested in discussions of religion in the Afrosphere. This analysis argues that the intersection of race and religion within this digital counterpublic makes particular iterations of the Black diaspora visible.

Anglican Liturgical Developments in New Contexts

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Weil
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
English History ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Book Of Common Prayer ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Common Prayer

The deep roots of Anglican liturgical prayer in English history and culture raise the question of whether that liturgical tradition can achieve authentic expression in other cultural contexts. The planting of that tradition through missionary expansion in the Anglo-Americas did not initially raise that question because of the indebtedness of both Canada and the United States to their English origins. Even as the Anglican tradition was planted in non-Anglo environments, local liturgical practice long continued in the use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer or of the substantially similar Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church. Only in the latter part of the twentieth century was Anglican liturgical evolution seriously affected by cultural diversity.

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