"The Perfect Bride" notes

1. The other two formats were broadcast on the private channel La7, a minor channel that has often been presented as the "alternative" to the duopolistic diatribe between RAI and Mediaset. [return to page 1 of essay]

2. For more on the decline of public service media, see: Tracey, 1998; Dahlgren, 1995; Holtz-Bacha and Norris, 2001.

3. For instance, the purpose of the program is summarized as follows: “To show 'Bride vs. Mother-in-Law' competition to the millions, which theme has not been mentioned in any competition program until today, and to witness a great competition by disclosing the war full of intrigues lasting for centuries in every detail.”

4. An in-depth study of the concept of "medialect" can be found in Hjarvard’s article, “The Globalization of Language: How the Media Contribute to the Spread of English and the Emergence of Medialects.” (2004).

5. For more on Turkey-EU relations, see: Kubicek, 2005.

6. This section has been adapted from my previously published research on Italian television: Ardizzoni, 2007, chapter 5. [return to page 2 of essay]

7. In 2001, during the second Berlusconi government, three RAI journalists (Enzo Biagi, Michele Santoro, and Daniele Luttazzi) were criticized and, eventually, fired for having used public television to express their left-wing ideas. For more details on this, see:
http://www.globaljournalist.org/magazine/2006-1/evil.html

Andrejevic, Mark (2002) “The kinder, gentler gaze of Big Brother: Reality TV in the era of digital capitalism” New Media and Society 4 (2): 251-271.

Ardizzoni, Michela (2007) North/South, East/West: Mapping Italianness on Television. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Aspesi, Natalia (2007) “E l’Italia precipito` nel paese delle suocere” La Repubblica April 6.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Burch, Elizabeth (2002). Media Literacy, Cultural Proximity and TV Aesthetics: Why Indian Soap Operas Work in Nepal and the Hindu Diaspora” Media, Culture and Society 24(4): 571-579.

Collins, R. (1989) “The language of advantage: satellite television in Western Europe”, Media, Culture and Society, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 351-371.

Cornero, Loredana, Ed. (2001). Una, Nessuna … A Quando Centomila? VQPT. Vol 184. Rome: RAI Eri.

Giddens, Anthony (1984). The Constitution of Society. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Hall, Stuart. (1979) “Culture, the media, and the "ideological effect’.” In J. Curran, M. Gurevitch, and J. Woollacott (Eds.), Mass Communication and Society (pp. 315-348). Beverly Hills: Sage Publications.

Hall, Stuart. (1990) “The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media.” In The Media Reader, edited by Manuel Alvarado and John O. Thompson. London: BFI Publishing.

Hjarvard, Stig. “The Globalization of Language. How the Media Contribute to the Spread of English and the Emergence of Medialects” in Nordicom Review, no. 1-2, 2004, pp. 75-97 Nordicom: Gothenburg University.

Holtz-Bacha, Christina and Pippa Norris (2001). “To Entertain, Inform and Educate: Still the Role of Public Television.” Political Communication 18(2): 123-140.

Kraszewski, Jon (2004). “Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Liberalism on MTV’s The Real World” in: Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. S. Murray and L. Ouellette, eds. New York: New York University Press, pp. 179-196.

Kubicek, Paul (2005) “The European Union and Grassroots Democratization in Turkey” Turkish Studies 6(3): 361-377.

La Pastina, Antonio and Joseph Straubhaar. (2005) “Multiple Proximities between Television Genres and Audiences” Gazette 67(3): 271-288.

Manacorda, Marco and Enrico Moretti. (2005) “Why do Most Italian Young Men Live with Their Parents? Intergenerational Transfers and Household Structure” June. CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5116. Available at SSRN:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=781247

Moran, Albert and Michael Keane. “Cultural Power in International TV Format Markets” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 71–86

Murray, Susan (2004). “’I Think We Need a New Name for It" The Meeting of Documentary and Reality TV” in: Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. S. Murray and L. Ouellette, eds. New York: New York University Press, pp. 40-56.

Murray, Susan and Laurie Ouellette (2004). Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. New York: New York University Press.

Peck, Janice (1995). “TV Talk Shows as Therapeutic Discourse: The Ideological Labor of the Televised Talking Cure” Communication Theory 5(1): 58-81.

Pomroy, Robin (2007). “Perfect Bride? Let Mama Decide” The Globe and Mail April 7, page A2.

Straubhaar, Joseph (1991). “Beyond Media Imperialism: Asymmetrical Interdependence and Cultural Proximity.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 8: 39-59.

Tracey, Michael (1998). The Decline and Fall of Public Television. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Trepte, Sabine (2003). “The Intercultural Perspective: Cultural Proximity as a Key Factor in Television Success” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA, June 23-27.

Waisbord, Silvio (2004). “McTV: Understanding the Global Popularity of Television Formats” Television and New Media 5(4): 359-383.

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