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Telemodernities

Autor Tania Lewis
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 sep 2016
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780822361886
ISBN-10: 0822361884
Pagini: 324
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction: Telemodernities  1

1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows  25

2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination  52

3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television  82

4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan  106

5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV  126

6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan  157

7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV  196

8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV  222

Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television  254

Notes  271

Works Cited  281

Index  305