Mainstream Culture Refocused : Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China / Xueping Zhong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhong, Xueping, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Press, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China, offers a wide, penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture. Mainstream Culture Refocused explores the manifestations, in dianshiju, of issues of history and tradition; the cultural and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth; and how women's emotions are represented in relation to their desire for "happiness." Song lyrics from music composed for television dramas are considered as "popular poetics" that express nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102975

ISBN:

9780824834173

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access