Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-end Drama

IF 0.9 2区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2023-03-03 DOI:10.1177/17496020231161643

Trisha Dunleavy, E. Weissmann

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In January 2023, yielding what was described as a “landmark moment for the creative industry in Wales” (Morris, 2023) it was announced that Netflix had purchased Welsh heist drama Dal y Mellt [Catch the Lightning] (S4C, 2023-present). This acquisition has further extended the already impressive linguistic diversity of Netflix’s TV drama catalogue, will be the first long-form drama on Netflix which was filmed entirely in Cymraeg (Welsh language), and it allows this Welsh drama and Cymraeg itself to reach a multinational audience (Morris, 2023). Since this acquisition occurred within just a few months of this drama’s S4C debut in October 2022, Netflix’s purchase of Dal y Mellt suggests a pleasing level of confidence in its potential to engage this streamer’s nearglobal audience. Although an acquisition rather than a full commission or coproduction for Netflix, this decision provides further evidence of the increasing cultural diversity and specificity of the high-end TV drama that is now on offer to international audiences and of the contributions of Netflix and other multinational premium providers to this development. Entitled ‘Cultural Diversity in Internationally Coproduced High-End Drama’ this themed issue examines an increasing flow of high-end drama productions being produced outside the US, often facilitated by means of transnational coproduction deals that entail full financing or co-financing from leading US-owned premium players. While TV drama continues to be facilitated and produced in traditional ways, and national broadcasters remain the mainstay for this, the most notable recent change, in terms of sustaining this flow of transnational high-end dramas, has been the increasing commissioning activity of multinational subscription video-on-demand (or SVODs), indicatively Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, and Disney+. As the TV drama case studies that comprise this

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国际合拍高端戏剧的文化多样性

2023年1月，被称为“威尔士创意产业的里程碑式时刻”（Morris，2023），网飞宣布收购了威尔士抢劫剧《抓住闪电》（Dal y Mellt[Catch the Lightning]，S4C，2023至今）。此次收购进一步扩大了Netflix电视剧目录中本已令人印象深刻的语言多样性，这将是Netflix上第一部完全用Cymraeg（威尔士语）拍摄的长篇电视剧，并使这部威尔士电视剧和Cymreag本身能够接触到跨国观众（Morris，2023）。由于此次收购发生在该剧2022年10月S4C首播后的几个月内，网飞对Dal y Mellt的收购表明，网飞有信心吸引该流媒体近全球观众。尽管这是对Netflix的收购，而不是全额委托或联合制作，但这一决定进一步证明了目前向国际观众提供的高端电视剧的文化多样性和特殊性不断增加，以及Netflix和其他跨国优质提供商对这一发展的贡献。本期主题为“国际合拍高端戏剧中的文化多样性”，探讨了美国境外越来越多的高端戏剧制作，通常通过跨国合拍协议来促进，这些协议需要由美国领先的高端演员提供全额融资或共同融资。尽管电视剧继续以传统方式提供便利和制作，而国家广播公司仍然是这方面的支柱，但就维持跨国高端电视剧的流动而言，最近最显著的变化是跨国订阅视频点播（SVOD）的委托活动不断增加，例如Netflix、亚马逊Prime video、HBO Max，以及Disney+。作为电视剧案例研究的组成部分

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Critical Studies in Television FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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期刊介绍： Critical Studies in Television publishes articles that draw together divergent disciplines and different ways of thinking, to promote and advance television as a distinct academic discipline. It welcomes contributions on any aspect of television—production studies and institutional histories, audience and reception studies, theoretical approaches, conceptual paradigms and pedagogical questions. It continues to invite analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts, as well as contextual matters relating to both contemporary and past productions. CST also features book reviews, dossiers and debates. The journal is scholarly but accessible, dedicated to generating new knowledge and fostering a dynamic intellectual platform for television studies.