Mainstream Culture Refocused Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping’s timely new work draws attention...

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Autor principal: Zhong, Xueping, 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press 2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Mainstream Culture Refocused: Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama
  • Chapter One. Looking through the Negatives: Filmic-Televisual Intertextuality and Ideological Renegotiations
  • Chapter Two. Re-collecting “History” on Television: “Emperor Dramas,” National Identity, and the Question of Historical Consciousness
  • Chapter Three. In Whose Name? “Anticorruption Dramas” and Their Ideological Implications
  • Chapter Four. Beyond Romance: “Youth Drama,” Social Change, and the Postrevolution Search for Idealism
  • Chapter Five. Also beyond Romance: Women, Desire, and the Ideology of Happiness in “Family-Marriage Drama”
  • Chapter Six. Listening to Popular Poetics: Watching Songs Composed for Television Dramas
  • Epilogue: Intellectuals, Mainstream Culture, and Social Transformation
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index