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Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike,
programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Legacy
demonstrate widespread fascination with Danish style, aesthetics
and culture as seen through television narratives. This book uses
familiar, alongside lesser known, case studies of drama series to
demonstrate how the particular features of Danish production - from
work cultures, to storytelling techniques and trans-national
cooperation - have enhanced contemporary Danish drama's appeal both
at home and abroad. The era of globalisation has blurred national
and international television cultures and promoted regular
cross-fertilisation between film and television industries.
Important questions have emerged from this context surrounding, for
example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign television formats, the
meaning and practice behind the term 'quality television', and the
purpose and efficacy of public service broadcasting. Beyond the
Bridge tackles these issues in relation to Danish television, by
examining the so-called 'scaffolded production processes' behind
the making of quality serials and their thought-provoking content.
Drawing on popular motifs from these celebrated dramas such as
foreign politics, organised crime, global warming, and the impact
of multinational corporations, this timely book provides crucial
insight into the Danish dramas at the forefront of sophisticated,
forward-thinking, fictional television.
Sometimes, basic questions must be raised, and this is what this
book does: What do we understand by a "medium"? How do we observe
"communication"? What does it mean to say that communication is
mediated? How should we interpret the idea of immediacy? The
background for raising these questions is this important book which
was published by Jay Bolter and Richard Grusin in 1999. Although it
was published only a few years ago, revisions -- or, at least,
reconsiderations -- already seem to be needed. The chapters
represent a wide spectrum of different cases and media -- from
television to computer, film and mobile phone. The main effort of
the book is to put concepts like hypermediacy, immediacy,
remediation, communication and the desire for the real into debate
and practice. In nine articles, the last one written by Bolter
himself, the writers are discussing and reconsidering these
fundamental concepts.
Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike,
programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Legacy
demonstrate widespread fascination with Danish style, aesthetics
and culture as seen through television narratives. This book uses
familiar, alongside lesser known, case studies of drama series to
demonstrate how the particular features of Danish production - from
work cultures, to storytelling techniques and trans-national
cooperation - have enhanced contemporary Danish drama's appeal both
at home and abroad. The era of globalisation has blurred national
and international television cultures and promoted regular
cross-fertilisation between film and television industries.
Important questions have emerged from this context surrounding, for
example, the 'Americanisation' of foreign television formats, the
meaning and practice behind the term 'quality television', and the
purpose and efficacy of public service broadcasting. Beyond the
Bridge tackles these issues in relation to Danish television, by
examining the so-called 'scaffolded production processes' behind
the making of quality serials and their thought-provoking content.
Drawing on popular motifs from these celebrated dramas such as
foreign politics, organised crime, global warming, and the impact
of multinational corporations, this timely book provides crucial
insight into the Danish dramas at the forefront of sophisticated,
forward-thinking, fictional television.
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