ABSTRACT
This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories.
Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book first offers an overview of the industrial, policy and cultural context for the renaissance of European television drama over the past decade, based on original comparative research. This research is then supported by case study chapters from the key contexts within which quality European television is being produced, offering a complex and complete picture of the industry’s strengths and limitations, its traditions and trends, its constraints and future perspectives.
A European Television Fiction Renaissance is a must-read book for TV scholars working across Europe and beyond in the areas of media studies, international communications and television studies, media industries studies, production studies, European studies, and media policy studies as well as for those with an interest in television drama, Netflix, globalisation, pay TV and on demand.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|57 pages
Researching European fiction
chapter 2|20 pages
The grounds for a renaissance in European fiction
chapter 3|23 pages
Mapping European premium-scripted TV
chapter 4|12 pages
Transnational circulation of European TV series
part 2|32 pages
United Kingdom
chapter 6|15 pages
“The biggest drama commission in British television history”
part 3|41 pages
France
chapter 7|15 pages
Video on demand platforms, editorial strategies, and logics of production
part 4|32 pages
Italy
chapter 10|20 pages
Towards a new model for Italian TV fiction
part 5|36 pages
Germany
part 6|30 pages
Spain
chapter 14|14 pages
The origins of premium television fiction in Spain
part 7|54 pages
Central and Eastern Europe