Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China
Dazzling the Eyes
Seiten
2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2523-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2523-7 (ISBN)
Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews. Huike Wen explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the 1980s.
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during this time. While the Chinese media has often been a topic within studies of globalization and the global political economy, scholarly attention to the history of Chinese television requires a more extensive and critical view of the interaction between television and culture. Using theories of media technology, globalization, and gender studies supplemented by Chinese periodicals including Life Out of 8 Hours, Popular TV, Popular Cinema, Modern Family, and Chinese Advertising, as well as oral history interviews, this book re-examines how Western technology was introduced to and embedded into Chinese culture. Wen compares and analyzes television dramas produced in China and imported from other nations while examining the interaction between various ideologies of Chinese society and those of the international media. Moreover, she explores how the hybridity between Western television culture and Chinese traditions were represented in popular Chinese visual media, specifically the confusions and ambitions of modernization and the negotiation between tradition and modernity, nationalism and internationalism, in the intellectual reception of television in China.
Television and the Modernization Ideal in 1980s China: Dazzling the Eyes explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during this time. While the Chinese media has often been a topic within studies of globalization and the global political economy, scholarly attention to the history of Chinese television requires a more extensive and critical view of the interaction between television and culture. Using theories of media technology, globalization, and gender studies supplemented by Chinese periodicals including Life Out of 8 Hours, Popular TV, Popular Cinema, Modern Family, and Chinese Advertising, as well as oral history interviews, this book re-examines how Western technology was introduced to and embedded into Chinese culture. Wen compares and analyzes television dramas produced in China and imported from other nations while examining the interaction between various ideologies of Chinese society and those of the international media. Moreover, she explores how the hybridity between Western television culture and Chinese traditions were represented in popular Chinese visual media, specifically the confusions and ambitions of modernization and the negotiation between tradition and modernity, nationalism and internationalism, in the intellectual reception of television in China.
Huike Wen is assistant professor at Willamette University.
Introduction
Chapter 1: What Could You Do With a Television Set?: The Legitimization of Television
Chapter 2: Jump Starting a Learning Process: The Ownership of TV Sets and Social Status
Chapter 3: Documenting Nature: TV and the Representation of Nature in 1980s China
Chapter 4: TV and the Other Modern Mass Media
Chapter 5: Providing More Choices?: Domenstic and Imported TV Dreamas and Gender Confusion
Epilogue: Continuity, Importation, Creation and the Chinese TV Industry
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 151 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4985-2523-7 / 1498525237 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-2523-7 / 9781498525237 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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