Telemodernities : television and transforming lives in Asia / Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Tania, author.

Martin, Fran, 1971- author.

Sun, Wanning, 1963- author.

Series:

Console-ing passions

Console-ing passions : television and cultural power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality television programs--China.

Reality television programs.

Reality television programs--India.

Reality television programs--Taiwan.

China.

India.

Taiwan.

Physical Description:

viii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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 Warming 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lewis, Tania, author. Telemodernities.

ISBN:

9780822361886

0822361884

9780822362043

082236204X

OCLC:

925498120