TV's Betty Goes Global

Janet McCabe is Honorary Research Fellow in TV Drama at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of The West Wing and Feminist Film Studies. She has co-edited collections on contemporary US television including Reading Sex and the City and Quality TV: Contemporary American TV and Beyond (2007,both I.B.Tauris). She is a co-founding editor as well as managing editor of Critical Studies in Television journal. Along with Kim Akass, she is series editor of Tauris' Reading Contemporary Television series. Kim Akass is Lecturer in Cultural and Contextual Studies (Film and TV),University of Hertfordshire. Among the books in contemporary television she has co-edited are Reading Six Feet Under (2005),and Quality TV:Contemporary American TV and Beyond 2007,both I.B.Tauris). She is the author of Telematernity: Watching Mothers on Television I.B.Tauris forthcoming).She is a co-founding editor and managing editor of Critical Studies in Television,as well as series editor,with Janet McCabe,of Reading Contemporary Television series.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: ‘Oh Betty, You’re So Beautiful’Janet McCabe The Whole World’s Unlikely Heroine: Ugly Betty as Transnational PhenomenonMichele Hilmes Our Betty: The Legacy of Yo soy Betty, la fea’s Success in ColombiaYeidy M. RiveroInterview with Jeff Ford on the purchase of Ugly Betty for Channel 4Jean Chalaby Interviews with TV Executives involved in the German Adaptation, Verliebt in BerlinAndrea EsserBetty and Lisa: Alternating Between Sameness and UniquenessBianca LippertUgly Betty, Flemish Sara: Telenovela Adaptation and Generic ExpectationsAlexander Dhoest and Manon MertensRe-Creating Betty’s World in SpainStefania CariniTowards a Cultural Economy of Chou Nu (Nv) Wu Di: The Ugly Betty franchise in the People’s Republic of ChinaCoco Xiaolu Ma and Albert MoranHow Ugly Can Betty Be in India?Divya D. McMillinUgly Betty on Turkish Television: Updating Popular CinemaLaurence RawEsti Ha'mechoeret: The Israeli Ugly BettyAmit Lavie-Dinur and Yuval KarnielThe Greek Maria The Ugly: The Never-Ending Journey of a Myth Betty KaklamanidouCzech Ugly Katka: Global Homogenization and Local Invention Irena Carpentier Reifová and Zden?k SlobodaGlamorously (Post) Soviet: Reading Yo soy Betty, la fea in RussiaElena ProkhorovaTraveling Narratives and Transitional Life Strategies: Yo soy Bea and Ugly Betty Paul Julian SmithOur Betties, OurselvesDana Heller

'This terrific and timely collection's distinct focus on the Yo soy Betty,la fea phenomenon allows for an impressively expansive inquiry into contemporary television and global popular culture.' Tasha Oren, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee