Telemodernities: television and transforming lives in Asia

Introduction: telemodernities -- Lifestyle television in context : media industries, cultural economies, and genre flows -- Local versus metropolitan television in China : stratification of needs, taste, and spatial imagination -- Here, there, and everywhere : mediascapes, geographic imaginaries, an...

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Main Authors: Lewis, Tania (Author), Martin, Fran 1971- (Author), Sun, Wanning 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 2016
Series:Console-ing passions : television and cultural power
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Summary:Introduction: telemodernities -- Lifestyle television in context : media industries, cultural economies, and genre flows -- Local versus metropolitan television in China : stratification of needs, taste, and spatial imagination -- Here, there, and everywhere : mediascapes, geographic imaginaries, and indian television -- Imagining global mobility : TlC Taiwan -- Gurus, babas, and daren : popular experts on Chinese and Indian advice TV -- Magical modernities : spiritual advice TV in india and taiwan -- Risky romance : navigating late modern identities and relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV -- A self to believe in: negotiating femininities in Sinophone lifestyle advice TV -- Conclusion: negotiating modernities through lifestyle television
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 314 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780822373902
0822373904