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Games
in the Global Village
A 50-Nation Study of
Entertainment Television
Anne Cooper-Chen
Popular Press
Games in the Global Village compares
and contrasts television game shows in fifty countries. These
shows have a "blank-slate" quality that makes them
ideal for comparing entertainment television across borders.
Game shows can run the gamut of many subject areas or focus on
one, such as rock music (MTV's Remote Control) or football
(ESPN's NFL Trivia Game). They can spotlight dazzlingly
high IQs (the BBC's erudite Mastermind) or nude assistants
and contestants (Germany's Tutti Frutti). They can limp
along in mid-morning time slots or smash the competition in prime
time (France's La Roue de la Fortune).
This is the first comprehensive comparison of TV entertainment
content, and it gives new meaning to McLuhan's concept of the
"Global Village."
For more information
contact the UW Press at phone: 608-263-1110, email: uwiscpress@uwpress.wisc.edu
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LC: 93-073820 PN
326 pp. 6 x 9
10 b/w photos,
36 b/w figs.,
4 b/w illus., 1 b/w map
ISBN-10: 0-87972-599-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-599-0
Paper $19.95 t
(ISBN-10: 0-87972-598-2, Cloth is out of print)
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