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The cultural politics of affect and emotion : a case study of Chinese reality TV / Wei Dong.
De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2 Available online
De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dong, Wei, author.
- Series:
- Critical Studies in Media and Communication Series
- Critical Studies in Media and Communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reality television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
- Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated by the material and the body - have the potential to challenge or exceed existing relations of power in the mediascape. Wei Dong shows how Chinese reality TV provides a historical and theoretical opportunity for understanding the affective structures of contemporary China in the dynamic process of fracture and integration.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 15, 2022).
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783837662849
- 3837662845
- OCLC:
- 1343104186
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