Elke Weissmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elke Weissmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elke |
| FAMILY NAME | Weissmann |
| SIGNATURE | WEISSMANN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6957-1395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dossier: Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value
In the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate as a ‘site struggle’ – pulled between complex negotiations of capital and culture. If in the 20th century, scholars were interested in teasing out the value(s) of television to argue for its potential contribution to socio-cultural transformation, in the 21st century, questions of televis…
Local Television, Public Service Broadcasting and Local Community Climate Action
The media have been struggling to represent climate change, particularly in ways that inspire more people to do more. At the same time as reliable information and education about this topic is becoming more important, public service broadcasters find themselves under renewed threat. This article examines whether local television, if it was reimagined as community-led and operating within a public service context, could provide a solution for both…
From traditional regionalism to national distinction: German television co-productions through time
This article offers a historical perspective on co-productions of high-end television drama in Germany. It argues that such co-productions have seen three distinct phases that although overlapping, are described by industry insiders and critics as distinct periods where one form of co-production is dominant at a particular time but then becomes residual as other forms take over. These three forms are, first, public broadcaster-led co-productions,…
TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era: Transnational Coproduction and Cultural Specificity
This book examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era
Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama
Whose nostalgia? Differentiation in German television’s audience address
Nostalgia is often examined as an element of the text. In this contribution, I argue that texts offer a number of spectator positions that can be perceived as nostalgic if the viewer has accumulated certain life experiences that render them so. Examining Babylon Berlin , I argue that the programme offers a spectator position that can look at its Weimar of 1929 anxiously and nostalgically. This is a spectator position that assumes a viewer who is …
Imagining the Welsh nation in a post-patriarchal, post-national world: Y Gwyll/Hinterlandand the re-construction of trans/national masculinity
Television drama has been a key site to investigate masculinities. This article examines Hinterland/Y Gwyll (S4C, BBC, 2013–2016) in order to understand the interrelationship between critiques of masculinities and the construction of post-national imaginations of the nation. It draws largely on Saskia Sassen’s work [1996, Losing control? Sovereignty in an age of globalization. The 1995 Columbia University Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures…
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Provocation, II: Not another article on the Wire: How hierarchies of gender undermine TV scholarship and lead to abuse
Not another article on the Wire: How hierarchies of gender undermine TV scholarship and lead to abuse
European Television Crime Drama and Beyond
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Watching CSI: A study of British audiences watching Channel 5 and 5 USA
Despite consumption patterns gradually changing, the notion of flow remains a key concept drawn on by scholars to understand television. As a concept, 'flow' is connected to an understanding of the difference of television from other media as far as the viewing experience is concerned: rather than a single film, audiences encounter a number of small units that are combined in the process of audiences' sense making. In this understanding, ephemera…
Ephemeral TV - Special edition
Ephemeral TV – Special edition
Women, soap opera and new generations of feminists
At a time when television (TV) studies was still an emerging subject, the soap opera attracted a number of high-profile studies, largely conducted by feminists, that also set the agenda for TV studies as a whole. While the soap opera no longer finds the same level of attention, the scholarship of that time remains important to the work of feminist TV researchers of different generations. In this dossier, five researchers, three of them emerging a…
Reflection ii: The Format Trade and Transnational Knowledge Cultures
Drawing on research of online discourses of drama formats, this short reflection highlights how an increasing number of television viewers use their 'transnational knowledge' of TV programmes to discuss and evaluate adaptations. Moreover, it is argued that such discourses also reveal the appeal of 'the other local', something that provides variety and difference. This second understanding of the local: one which is specific, different and, crucia…
Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and UK
This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the
Conventionally beautiful: Contemplative images in the personal reflective narratives of Who Do You Think You Are?, The Monastery and The Convent
This article examines the hybrid documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, The Monastery and The Convent in relation to their ability to update the documentary format. It asks if new forms of engagement with documentary subjects are enabled by the impact of light entertainment and reality television genres. It argues that although the generic mix contributes to the situation of truth in the tension between the public and the private, it is a …
Paying for Fewer Imports: The BBC License Fee 1975—1981 and Attitudes toward American Imports
This article investigates the impact of the BBC license fee negotiations between 1975 and 1981 on the relationship between the broadcaster and American programming. It highlights the increasing dependence of the BBC on imported programming and on the export of content to America due to a series of below-inflation increases that left the BBC financially weakened. The article’s main concern, however, is with the management of attitudes toward Ameri…
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Global Television: Co-Producing Culture (Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative Series)
an explanation of the methodological and historiographical significance of the earlier works, and an evaluation of how the newer essays utilize or challenge their lessons, would have helped to exemplify the intricate and essential relationship between histories and historical methods
Cultural Difference? Not So Different after All
In this article the authors discuss a study on the importation of U.S. television programs in Great Britain and the acquisition of British drama for screening on U.S. television. It notes that the study aims to investigate the impact of the acquisition of U.S. and British television on the debates around the traditions and ideologies of television dramas. It contends that to properly understand transnational television, relationships between nati…
Negotiating American Quality: The NBC Brand in Britain
Ideas of 'quality' have always been important to the US network NBC and its brand identity. This article examines what happens to the core values of 'quality' when NBC-related programming is imported to Britain, and charts how broadcasting publicity in two distinct periods talks about and thus defines quality. Whilst early definitions revolve around ideas of public service and adult address, quality becomes increasingly defined as self-evident, a…
Women, soap opera and new generations of feminists
At a time when television (TV) studies was still an emerging subject, the soap opera attracted a number of high-profile studies, largely conducted by feminists, that also set the agenda for TV studies as a whole. While the soap opera no longer finds the same level of attention, the scholarship of that time remains important to the work of feminist TV researchers of different generations. In this dossier, five researchers, three of them emerging a…
Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Ephemeral TV - Special edition
Ephemeral TV – Special edition
Reflection ii: The Format Trade and Transnational Knowledge Cultures
Drawing on research of online discourses of drama formats, this short reflection highlights how an increasing number of television viewers use their 'transnational knowledge' of TV programmes to discuss and evaluate adaptations. Moreover, it is argued that such discourses also reveal the appeal of 'the other local', something that provides variety and difference. This second understanding of the local: one which is specific, different and, crucia…
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Negotiating American Quality: The NBC Brand in Britain
Ideas of 'quality' have always been important to the US network NBC and its brand identity. This article examines what happens to the core values of 'quality' when NBC-related programming is imported to Britain, and charts how broadcasting publicity in two distinct periods talks about and thus defines quality. Whilst early definitions revolve around ideas of public service and adult address, quality becomes increasingly defined as self-evident, a…
Cultural Difference? Not So Different after All
In this article the authors discuss a study on the importation of U.S. television programs in Great Britain and the acquisition of British drama for screening on U.S. television. It notes that the study aims to investigate the impact of the acquisition of U.S. and British television on the debates around the traditions and ideologies of television dramas. It contends that to properly understand transnational television, relationships between nati…
Negotiating American Quality: The NBC Brand in Britain
Ideas of 'quality' have always been important to the US network NBC and its brand identity. This article examines what happens to the core values of 'quality' when NBC-related programming is imported to Britain, and charts how broadcasting publicity in two distinct periods talks about and thus defines quality. Whilst early definitions revolve around ideas of public service and adult address, quality becomes increasingly defined as self-evident, a…
Paying for Fewer Imports: The BBC License Fee 1975—1981 and Attitudes toward American Imports
This article investigates the impact of the BBC license fee negotiations between 1975 and 1981 on the relationship between the broadcaster and American programming. It highlights the increasing dependence of the BBC on imported programming and on the export of content to America due to a series of below-inflation increases that left the BBC financially weakened. The article’s main concern, however, is with the management of attitudes toward Ameri…
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Global Television: Co-Producing Culture (Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative Series)
an explanation of the methodological and historiographical significance of the earlier works, and an evaluation of how the newer essays utilize or challenge their lessons, would have helped to exemplify the intricate and essential relationship between histories and historical methods
Conventionally beautiful: Contemplative images in the personal reflective narratives of Who Do You Think You Are?, The Monastery and The Convent
This article examines the hybrid documentary series Who Do You Think You Are?, The Monastery and The Convent in relation to their ability to update the documentary format. It asks if new forms of engagement with documentary subjects are enabled by the impact of light entertainment and reality television genres. It argues that although the generic mix contributes to the situation of truth in the tension between the public and the private, it is a …
Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and UK
This history of British and American television drama since 1970 charts the increased transnationalisation of the two production systems. From The Forsyte Saga to Roots to Episodes , it highlights the
Reflection ii: The Format Trade and Transnational Knowledge Cultures
Drawing on research of online discourses of drama formats, this short reflection highlights how an increasing number of television viewers use their 'transnational knowledge' of TV programmes to discuss and evaluate adaptations. Moreover, it is argued that such discourses also reveal the appeal of 'the other local', something that provides variety and difference. This second understanding of the local: one which is specific, different and, crucia…
Women, soap opera and new generations of feminists
At a time when television (TV) studies was still an emerging subject, the soap opera attracted a number of high-profile studies, largely conducted by feminists, that also set the agenda for TV studies as a whole. While the soap opera no longer finds the same level of attention, the scholarship of that time remains important to the work of feminist TV researchers of different generations. In this dossier, five researchers, three of them emerging a…
Watching CSI: A study of British audiences watching Channel 5 and 5 USA
Despite consumption patterns gradually changing, the notion of flow remains a key concept drawn on by scholars to understand television. As a concept, 'flow' is connected to an understanding of the difference of television from other media as far as the viewing experience is concerned: rather than a single film, audiences encounter a number of small units that are combined in the process of audiences' sense making. In this understanding, ephemera…
Ephemeral TV - Special edition
Ephemeral TV – Special edition
European Television Crime Drama and Beyond
European cultures of production
European cultures of production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Transnational European Cultures of Production
Provocation, II: Not another article on the Wire: How hierarchies of gender undermine TV scholarship and lead to abuse
Not another article on the Wire: How hierarchies of gender undermine TV scholarship and lead to abuse
Whose nostalgia? Differentiation in German television’s audience address
Nostalgia is often examined as an element of the text. In this contribution, I argue that texts offer a number of spectator positions that can be perceived as nostalgic if the viewer has accumulated certain life experiences that render them so. Examining Babylon Berlin , I argue that the programme offers a spectator position that can look at its Weimar of 1929 anxiously and nostalgically. This is a spectator position that assumes a viewer who is …
Imagining the Welsh nation in a post-patriarchal, post-national world: Y Gwyll/Hinterlandand the re-construction of trans/national masculinity
Television drama has been a key site to investigate masculinities. This article examines Hinterland/Y Gwyll (S4C, BBC, 2013–2016) in order to understand the interrelationship between critiques of masculinities and the construction of post-national imaginations of the nation. It draws largely on Saskia Sassen’s work [1996, Losing control? Sovereignty in an age of globalization. The 1995 Columbia University Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures…
TV Drama in the Multiplatform Era: Transnational Coproduction and Cultural Specificity
This book examines a new phase in the creation of transnational high-end drama in television’s current multiplatform era
Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama
From traditional regionalism to national distinction: German television co-productions through time
This article offers a historical perspective on co-productions of high-end television drama in Germany. It argues that such co-productions have seen three distinct phases that although overlapping, are described by industry insiders and critics as distinct periods where one form of co-production is dominant at a particular time but then becomes residual as other forms take over. These three forms are, first, public broadcaster-led co-productions,…
Local Television, Public Service Broadcasting and Local Community Climate Action
The media have been struggling to represent climate change, particularly in ways that inspire more people to do more. At the same time as reliable information and education about this topic is becoming more important, public service broadcasters find themselves under renewed threat. This article examines whether local television, if it was reimagined as community-led and operating within a public service context, could provide a solution for both…
Dossier: Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value
In the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate as a ‘site struggle’ – pulled between complex negotiations of capital and culture. If in the 20th century, scholars were interested in teasing out the value(s) of television to argue for its potential contribution to socio-cultural transformation, in the 21st century, questions of televis…
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