Cultural Adaptation
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Cultural Adaptation explores how creative ideas are packaged and nationalised to meet local taste, maps the cultural economy of adaptation in entertainment media ranging from motion pictures to mobile phones, and even probes the role of cultural recipes and formats in mutating participatory experiences of theme parks and sporting spectacles. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book also provides insight into remaking in lifestyle and consumption cultures including fashion, food, drink, and gambling. Essential for communication, cultural, media, leisure and consumption studies scholars and students alike, this book opens up important new perspectives on how we understand global creativity.
This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
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Albert Moran is Professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University where he researches cross-border trade in TV formats; screen geographies, and Australian screen history. He has edited and authored publications include over 20 books. His most recent is New Television: Globalization and the East Asian Imagination (Hong Kong University Press 2007).
Michael Keane is a Centre Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Michael is author of Created in China: the Great New Leap Forward (2007).
