ISBN:
9781137514707
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 227 p)
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
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Ethnology Asia
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Communication
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Motion pictures and television
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Motion pictures Asia
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Motion pictures History
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Arts
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Ethnology—Asia.
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Motion pictures—Asia.
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Arts.
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Motion pictures—History.
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Motion pictures and television.
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Communication.
Abstract:
This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese TV and film culture after 1989.
Abstract:
This unique book investigates the tug-of-war between the free market economy and authoritative state regulation in Chinese culture after 1989. Contextualizing close textual readings of cinematic and television texts, both officially sanctioned and independently made, Wing Shan Ho illuminates the complex process in which cultural producers and consumers negotiate with both the state and the market in articulating new forms of subjectivity. Ho examines the types of Chinese subjects that the state applauds and aggrandizes in contrast to those that it condemns and attempts to eliminate. Her focus on the socialist spirit exposes inherent contradictions in the current Chinese project of nation-building. This comparative study shines a harsh light on these cultural products and on much more: the confluence between commerce and politics and popular culture, the interaction between state and individuals in popular culture, and the complexity of governmentality in an era of globalization. Wing Shan Ho is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Montclair State University, USA. She recently published articles in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media and Studies in the Humanities.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation and Romanization; Introduction: How Far Can We Go in Controlling and Negotiating Cultural Production and Consumption; Contesting the Chinese "Popular" Culture; Looking at the Political Economy of Film and TV to Understand Post-1989 China; The June Fourth Event and the Spiritual Turn; Zhuxuanlü, Censorship, and the Socialist Spirit; How Far Can We Go?: Cultural Policy as Reproductive Power and Screen Products as a Site of Institutional and Ideological Contestation; Structure of the Book
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I Screening the Economic Subject in Films1 Selfless Party Officials and the Socialist Legacy; Ren Changxia-Reinvigorating Selflessness in Officialdom; Screening a Self-Sacrificing Economic Subject in Ren Changxia; Gendered Workers and Genderless Performance; Conclusion: The State as Savior from Evils of Capitalism; 2 Insulting Portrayals of the Present Era?: Selling One's Son, Murder, and Human Trafficking; Two Versions of Lost in Beijing and the Limits of the State's Tolerance; The Disposable and (Re-)Productive Body as a Source of Income; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Screening the Sexual Subject on the Television3 Golden Marriage: An Exemplary Marriage and a Harmonious Society; Golden Marriage: Zhuxuanlü TV Drama Portraying Model Sexual Subjects; Familial Harmony and Social Harmony; Conclusion: Zhuxuanlü TV Drama and Social Harmony; 4 Narrow Dwelling: Extra-marital Sex and the City; Narrow Dwelling and Excessive Sexual Desire; Reconfigurations of Sex, Gender, and Marriage; Reacting to Narrow Dwelling; From Sex to Politics; Conclusion; Part III Screening the Political Subject in Films
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Selling Party Patriotism to Intellectuals in the Chinese Blockbuster HeroHero: A Zhuxuanlü Blockbuster; Staging Political Subjectivity; Confucian Ideas and the Socialist Spirit; From a Local Hero to a Global Hero; Reactions to a Sacrificing Political Subjectivity; 6 (Dis)Associating Political Dissent and Non-heteronormative Sexual Desire; Lan Yu: Integration of Nonconforming Sexual and Political Subjectivity; Reminiscence as Political Protest; Butterfly: Affirming a Regional Identity; Confirming Lesbian Identity: From Self-Repression to Self-Acceptance; Conclusion: From Allegory to Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: How Far Have We GoneLocating Film and TV Drama Along the Spectrum of the Popular; Socialist Spirit as Pale Centripetal Force and Censorship as Detector of Negative Sentiments; Areas for Further Research; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1057/9781137514707
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