Public medium, private talk: Gossip about a TV show as ‘quotidian hermeneutics’

This chapter examines Hollywood’s great rival, television, in a study of how television adapted the Broadway musical. Rather than looking at conventional stage-to-small-screen adaptations, however, the chapter focuses on how Carol Burnett’s TV show provided adaptations of another kind, that is, parodies of famous musicals. For example, the chapter explains how ‘Hold Me, Hamlet’ can be read as a parody/adaptation of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate, even retaining the doubling of the onstage/backstage musical format of the latter. Meanwhile, The Wiz is the clearest referent for ‘Cinderella Gets it On.’ These Burnett shows approach poesis because they take the form of the musical, and they often do comment upon it, but they are also genuine expressions of the form and the creators’ deep love and understanding of it.

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Our World: united via satellite [multi-national TV show]

Engineering & Technology ◽

10.1049/et.2017.0703 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 42-44

Author(s):

J. Hayes

Keyword(s):

Tv Show

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Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction

Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques ◽

10.1515/asia-2019-0053 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 497-520

Author(s):

Nicola Pozza

Keyword(s):

Effective Means ◽

The Novel ◽

Cultural Products ◽

Slumdog Millionaire ◽

Interactive Nature ◽

Tv Show ◽

Shed Light ◽

The Way

AbstractNumerous studies have dealt with the process of globalization and its various cultural products. Three such cultural products illustrate this process: Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A (2005), the TV quiz show Kaun banega crorepati? (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?), and Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The novel, the TV show and the film have so far been studied separately. Juxtaposing and comparing Q and A, Kaun banega crorepati, and Slumdog Millionaire provides an effective means to shed light on the dialogic and interactive nature of the process of globalization. It is argued through this case study that an analysis of their place of production, language and content, helps clarify the derivative concepts of “glocalization” and “grobalization” with regard to the way(s) contemporary cultural products respond to globalization.

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