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Writing Games: Continuity and Change in the Design and Development of Quiz Shows in Italy

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dc.creatorFiacco, Axel
dc.creatorScaglioni, Massimo
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T10:09:41Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T10:09:41Z
dc.date.issued2013-12-23
dc.description.abstractAs in the United States and in many countries across Europe, the quiz show was a founding genre for Italian television as far back as the 1950s: because of their broad appeal, such game shows as Lascia o raddoppia and Il musichiere contributed strongly to television’s burgeoning popularity during the subsequent decades. Since then, the quiz show has traversed different eras of television history, with partial and gradual changes to its textual features, aesthetics and narratives, as well as its production routines. Since the 1980s, with deregulation and the advent of commercial television, the Italian game-show market has become more international and more reliant on formats. In the genre’s long history, the ‘hidden profession’ of writing TV games exhibits elements of both continuity and change. The needs of format-adaptation have highlighted two main areas of “localization”: question-writing and casting. This essay explores the profession of game-show writer in Italy and how the role has evolved. It adopts a historical framework to illuminate the continuity and change in the profession, in relation to a broader history of both the genre and the television medium, while also seeking to outline both the specificity of the Italian TV context and its connections with an international environment.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2013.jethc049
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14087
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15049
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectGame-Show Writeren
dc.subjectAuthorshipen
dc.subjectItalian Televisionen
dc.subjectQuiz And Game Showen
dc.subjectCastingen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleWriting Games: Continuity and Change in the Design and Development of Quiz Shows in Italyen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:05:20
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2013.jethc049
local.source.epage123
local.source.issue4
local.source.spage112
local.source.volume2

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