Telemodernities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Telemodernities write by Tania Lewis. This book was released on 2016-09-09. Telemodernities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time-pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty-first-century media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, Telemodernities uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.
Dreams of Flight
Dreams of Flight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dreams of Flight write by Fran Martin. This book was released on 2021-11-08. Dreams of Flight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.
Capture Japan
Capture Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capture Japan write by Marco Bohr. This book was released on 2022-12-01. Capture Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Capture Japan investigates the formation of visual tropes and how these have contributed to perceptions of Japan in the global imagination. The book proposes that images are not incidental in the formation of such perceptions, but central to notions about identity, history and memory. From a tentative western ally in 1952 to a 'soft power' superpower with a huge global influence in the 21st century, the book locates questions about Japan in the global imagination to the country's transforming geopolitical position. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach, with a multiplicity of perspectives from around the world, Capture Japan goes beyond binarisms to uncover how images can also produce discourses that challenge, subvert or even contradict each other. The word 'capture' in the title of the book recognises both the deeply problematic role that images have played in relation to colonialism, as well as the potential dominance that visual spectacles can wield in a contemporary context. Diverse essays from a wide range of perspectives investigate the institutional framework that has allowed certain types of images of Japan to be promoted, while others have been suppressed. In doing so, the book points to a vast network of images that have shaped the perception of Japan both from within and from outside, revealing how these images are inextricably linked to wider ideological, political, cultural or economic agendas.
From Media Systems to Media Cultures
From Media Systems to Media Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Media Systems to Media Cultures write by Sabina Mihelj. This book was released on 2018-08-23. From Media Systems to Media Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proposes an original framework for comparative media research, and uses it to provide fascinating insights into television under communist rule.
Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China
Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China write by Qian Gong. This book was released on 2021-03-22. Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama adaptations. They have since remained a permanent feature of TV repertoire well into the 2010s. Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China looks at the how the revolutionary experience is represented and consumed in the reform era. It examines the adaptation of Red Classics as a result of the dynamic interplay between television stations, media censorship and social sentiment of the populace. How the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender, locality and faith in contemporary China.
