ISBN:
9780822361886
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (323 p)
Series Statement:
Console-ing Passions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lewis, Tania Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
DDC:
302.2345095
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Telemodernities -- One. Lifestyle Television in Context Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows -- Two. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination -- Three. Here, There, and Everywhere Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television -- Four. Imagining Global Mobility TLC Taiwan -- Five. Gurus, Babas, and Daren Popular Experts on Indian and Chinese Advice TV -- Six. Magical Modernities Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan
Abstract:
Seven. Risky Romance Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Indian and Chinese Lifestyle TV -- Eight. A Self to Believe In Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV -- Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
