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Culture will never be a category on what ever (ezine) directory. It is just too wide a subject. And it doesn’t solve anything. In fact it is only causing problems. YET. it is so interesting…
Culture is difficult to describe, because there are so some parts and details that describe the culture of a group or nation. But if you detect and watch you will learn a lot.
For example look at the global soccer league. This is an global culture that is one of the most open cultures that is available in the world. The main trademark of this soccer culture is the TRANSFER. This “transfer” is in fact the symbol of the openness of the global soccer culture. Transfer is all in regards to going from team A to team B; going to a new contract to Real Madrid and purchased from Barcelona.
So a Catalan team may and will (according to the international soccer profession) contract players from Brazil, the Netherlands, Cameroon and of course Spain itself. This is not dissimilar for any other Spanish team (like Real Madrid, Sevilla or Valencia).
Then there is the local culture. For example, players in the Barcelona team are obliged to learn and (be capable to) speak Catalan, which is the language that is spoken in the Catalan community in Spain. This (local) rule — protects (conserves) the local culture by compelling foreigners to learn the local language — shows very much the divergence with the global soccer league culture (and rules).
Another way in which cultural deviations become clear is when we observe national soccer teams.
If we compare the international (soccer) culture with local National cultures we may likewise observe national rules — concentered on openness. This is for example apparent if we take the Italian or the Spanish national teams and we compare them to the Dutch or the French and even the German teams (From the World Cup 2006).
The Italian and Spanish teams had only local Spanish players, whereas in the French, Dutch and even the German teams, the influence from other culture was present and visible.
This is only one single element in culture; the way in which a group of people are open and used to cooperate with others, call them “Third parties”.
This is only with regards to awareness. A next step could be with regards to international or global trends.
© 2006 Hans Bool
Rules Game Shows American Culture
Critically examines the quiz show genre in American culture from the 1930s to the present.
From the Back CoverFrom The $64,000 Question and Twenty-One to Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, quiz shows have permeated American culture ever since their beginnings in early radio. In Rules of the Game, Olaf Hoerschelmann gravely examines the quiz show genre in American culture, drawing on a big body of radio and television programs and on archival materials relating to the broadcast industry, program sponsors, promotion agencies, and person producers. Hoerschelmann relates quiz shows to the more spectacular social and industrial structures from which they originate and examines the connection of quiz shows to the production of noesis in American society. He likewise provides a rethinking of media genre theory, supplying a elaborated analysis of the text-audience relationships on quiz shows and their significance for the exercise of broadcasting.
“As the firstborn in-depth, book-length investigation of quiz shows, Rules of the Game stands out through it is historic scope, theoretical depth, and exhaustive research. It adds an primary new perspective by linking the popularity and transformations of the genre over the years to the ever-changing surrounding ideological formations. The book challenges current media scholarship and establishes Hoerschelmann as one of the leading expert
“With magnificent exploration and intriguing readings of the programs, Hoerschelmann examines a lot of very indispensable issues, including a neglected but major broadcast genre, the deviations in audience relations to television from cinema, and the political economy of the genre. More than just a ordinary history of quiz and game shows, the book raises more prominent questions within television studies.” — Sean Griffin, coauthor of Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America
About the AuthorOlaf Hoerschelmann is Associate Professor of Media Theory and Criticism at Eastern Illinois University.
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