The cultural politics of affect and emotion a case study of Chinese reality TV

Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropr...

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Autor Corporativo: BMBF Fördervorhaben 16TOA002 funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Dong, Wei, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
Bielefeld : [2022]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Critical Studies in Media and Communication Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009676288506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Mass Media and Reality TV Formats in Post-socialist China
  • Chapter 3: The Turn to Affect and its Application to Reality TV
  • Chapter 4: Reality TV Analysis: From Authenticity to Affect
  • Chapter 5: Researching Affect in Reality TV Text
  • Chapter 6: Telling Stories, Swapping Lives
  • Chapter 7: Emotional Excess and Therapeutic Governance
  • Chapter 8: The Politics of Suffering and Kuqing
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion and Discussion
  • Bibliography