Performing fear in television production : practices of an illiberal democracy / Siao Yuong Fong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fong, Siao Yuong, author.

Series:

Asian visual cultures.

Asian visual cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television and politics--Singapore.

Television and politics.

Television and state--Singapore.

Television and state.

Authoritarianism in mass media.

Television in propaganda--Singapore.

Television in propaganda.

Authoritarianism--Singapore.

Authoritarianism.

Singapore--Politics and government.

Singapore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power. Turning to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore, I pose a series of questions that explore what it takes to perpetuate authoritarian resilience in the mass media.

Contents:

Fear and the fragility of myths

Playing games with heritage

Drama writing and audiences as affective superaddressee

Producing art, producing difference

Making reality TV : the pleasures of disciplining in a control society.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 26, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Fong, Siao Yuong Performing Fear in Television Production

ISBN:

9789048555604

9048555604

OCLC:

1347260561