Tasha Oren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tasha Oren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Oren |
| SIGNATURE | OREN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5128-2891 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making the Season: Risk, Repetition and Return in Below Deck
This essay examines Below Deck as a case study in reality television’s industrial logic, focusing on the show’s fusion of repetition and risk as both narrative engine and production strategy. Considered within Bravo’s brand of aspirational programs, Below Deck distinguishes itself by foregrounding menial service work and the recursive rhythms that structure both television and labor. Through its liturgical charter structure, managerial spectators…
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Global Television Formats
On the Line: Format, Cooking and Competition as Television Values
Through an in-depth look at the history of US food television, this essay elucidates the extent to which contemporary television relies on the structural (and narrative) logic of the format. Focusing on contemporary food television's radical evolution with the introduction of competition programmes and formats, the essay accounts for the move away from female-centred, domestic 'How-to' cooking programmes in favour of restaurant-set competition sh…
Global television formats: Understanding television across borders
Introduction: Television Formats--A Global Framework for TV Studies Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf I. Format Theories and Global Television 1. More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance Vinicius Navarro 2. Calling Out Around the World: The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats Dana Heller 3. Television Formats and Contemporary Sports Tony Schiarto 4. A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasure Eddie Brennan 5. Interpreting Cubann…
Inventing America: Ethnic Identity and American Popular Culture
Book Review| January 01 2008 Inventing America: Ethnic Identity and American Popular Culture Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick.Alien Encounter: Popular Culture in Asian America, Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Tasha Oren Tasha Oren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (2): 91–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543333 Ci…
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture
The Belly Dancer Strategy: Israeli Educational Television and its Alternatives
By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous ‘culture bomb’ by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on …
The belly dancer strategy: Israeli educational television and its alternatives
By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous 'culture bomb' by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on …
On the Line: Format, Cooking and Competition as Television Values
Through an in-depth look at the history of US food television, this essay elucidates the extent to which contemporary television relies on the structural (and narrative) logic of the format. Focusing on contemporary food television's radical evolution with the introduction of competition programmes and formats, the essay accounts for the move away from female-centred, domestic 'How-to' cooking programmes in favour of restaurant-set competition sh…
The Belly Dancer Strategy: Israeli Educational Television and its Alternatives
By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous ‘culture bomb’ by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on …
The Belly Dancer Strategy: Israeli Educational Television and its Alternatives
By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous ‘culture bomb’ by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on …
The belly dancer strategy: Israeli educational television and its alternatives
By the 1960s, the question of instituting a television service in Israel had become the subject of a public controversy and a political debate. Hailed as a great educational tool by some and a dangerous 'culture bomb' by others, television facilitated a process of cultural self-definition as Israelis struggled to set the wouldbe service apart and shield it from the cultural influences of American television on the one hand and Arab television on …
East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture
Inventing America: Ethnic Identity and American Popular Culture
Book Review| January 01 2008 Inventing America: Ethnic Identity and American Popular Culture Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick.Alien Encounter: Popular Culture in Asian America, Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. Tasha Oren Tasha Oren Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (2): 91–96. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543333 Ci…
Global television formats: Understanding television across borders
Introduction: Television Formats--A Global Framework for TV Studies Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf I. Format Theories and Global Television 1. More than Copycat Television: Format Adaptation as Performance Vinicius Navarro 2. Calling Out Around the World: The Global Appeal of Reality Dance Formats Dana Heller 3. Television Formats and Contemporary Sports Tony Schiarto 4. A Political Economy of Formatted Pleasure Eddie Brennan 5. Interpreting Cubann…
Global Television Formats
On the Line: Format, Cooking and Competition as Television Values
Through an in-depth look at the history of US food television, this essay elucidates the extent to which contemporary television relies on the structural (and narrative) logic of the format. Focusing on contemporary food television's radical evolution with the introduction of competition programmes and formats, the essay accounts for the move away from female-centred, domestic 'How-to' cooking programmes in favour of restaurant-set competition sh…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism
Making the Season: Risk, Repetition and Return in Below Deck
This essay examines Below Deck as a case study in reality television’s industrial logic, focusing on the show’s fusion of repetition and risk as both narrative engine and production strategy. Considered within Bravo’s brand of aspirational programs, Below Deck distinguishes itself by foregrounding menial service work and the recursive rhythms that structure both television and labor. Through its liturgical charter structure, managerial spectators…
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