This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audiences and the creative community. It demonstrates that the diversity of national cultures is a challenge for European TV drama but also a potential richness and source of creative variation. Based on data on the production, distribution and reception of recent TV drama from several European countries, the book presents a new picture of the transnational European television culture. The authors analyse main tendencies in television policy and challenges for national broadcasters coming from new global streaming services. Comparing cases of historical, contemporary and crime drama from several countries, this study shows the importance of creative co-production and transnational mediated cultural encounters between national cultures of Europe.

This book deals with the role of television drama in Europe as enabler of transnational, cultural encounters for audiences and the creative community. It demonstrates that the diversity of national cultures is a challenge for European TV drama but also a potential richness and source of creative variation. Based on data on the production, distribution and reception of recent TV drama from several European countries, the book presents a new picture of the transnational European television culture. The authors analyse main tendencies in television policy and challenges for national broadcasters coming from new global streaming services. Comparing cases of historical, contemporary and crime drama from several countries, this study shows the importance of creative co-production and transnational mediated cultural encounters between national cultures of Europe.

This fourth volume in the Northern Lights series brings into focus central aspects of recent developments in European film and media culture. Through studies of both film and television the question of national identity, European integration and globalization is analyzed in a both Eastern and Western European context. European Film and Media Culture offers case studies of the more historical and institutional context of European film, studies of European television drama, childrens television, television entertainment formats, and comparative studies of European art cinema / art television and American films and television serials. -- Northern Lights is an annual publication dedicated to studies of film and media. Each yearbook is devoted to a specific theme, covering the full range of mediafrom film and television, the press and radio, to the internet and other computer media. Northern Lights reflects the research activities of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the Univers