Browsing by Subject "Transnational"

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A Case study of american-to-turkish transnational television adaptations
(2015) Erdoğan, Seza Esin
This thesis provides a close reading of Turkish television series Doktorlar (2006- 2011) and Medcezir (2013-2015) as transnational adaptations of American dramas Grey’s Anatomy (2005) and The O.C. (2003-2007). The research deals closely with adaptation studies, its theory and its appeal for audiences and producers. Additionally, aspects of globalization of the television market and format trade as catalysts in making television content transnational and transcultural are discussed in detail. Later, the relationship of Turkish television series is demonstrated showing Turkey’s presence in the format market and the global television content trade. Conclusively, Doktorlar and Grey’s Anatomy, and Medcezir and The O.C. are comparatively analyzed as transnational/transcultural television adaptations from United States to Turkey. It is concluded that both of these Turkish series derive from their source texts immensely, yet the added local flavor is emblematic of the tendencies and practices of Turkish television as themes of motherhood and morality are sustained while refraining from excessive portrayal of sexuality and avoiding themes of homosexuality altogether. Meanwhile, some recurring themes, industrial tendencies, and the emerging innovative approaches in Turkish television are also mentioned.
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Self-adaptation and transnationality in Marjane Satrapi's Poulet aux prunes (2011)
(Oxford University Press, 2015) Kennedy-Karpat, C.
Marjane Satrapi's Poulet aux prunes offers an intriguing example of self-adaptation from comics to live-action film. This essay will consider how the Franco-Iranian Satrapi, within her dual role as self-adapter and transnational filmmaker, uses intertextuality and remediation beyond her own source text in ways that pointedly expand the transnational resonance of her film. These narrative and aesthetic strategies also extend to the film's paratextual discourses, namely, the extras available on the French DVD release of the film. The book, film, and DVD paratexts related to Poulet aux prunes thus form the core of this discussion of self-adaptation and transnationality. © The Author 2014.
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Tijuana Transa: Transa as metaphor and theory on the US – Mexico border
(University of California, 2016) Reimer, J. A.
This essay explores the varied potential of “transa” as a new metaphor to describe the US–Mexico borderlands in the twenty-first century and the formal transactions used in the photo-textual essay Here Is Tijuana! (2006). Reimer identifies certain “transa techniques” in the book that connect reader-viewers to a practice of reading-viewing (both text and city) that contests North American and Mexican stereotypes depicting Tijuana (and the borderlands writ large) as a city of vice, illegality, poverty, or a cultural wasteland. What makes Here Is Tijuana! different from the many other texts produced about Tijuana (a large number of which are cited in the book itself) is the concept of transa. Reimer expands the authors’ usage of the term to offer a theoretical-aesthetic intervention into the existing discourse, not only on Tijuana itself, but also on the US–Mexico border and cultural studies in general. Transa offers an alternative approach to encountering experimental cultural productions. Through transa techniques that include textual-visual collage, pastiche, juxtaposition, and sampling, Here Is Tijuana! documents and visualizes a series of geopolitical and cultural phenomena encountered in Tijuana, such as free trade, uneven urban development, border crossings and migration, labor struggles, and urban and traditional art practices. The book forces readers into its transas to offer new ways of “reading” or “seeing” the US–Mexico border (through Tijuana) that testify to its contradictory power to transgress—and even to render obsolete—national boundaries, while also heightening the perceived power and presence of states and cohesive national identities.