Television Amp Modern Ideal in 1pb

Using theories of visual culture, media technology, globalization and gender studies supplemented by visual images and interviews. Huike Wen explores Chinese television history in the pivotal decade of the 1980s from the cultural studies viewpoint and explains the intellectual reception of television in China during the 1980s.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: What Could You Do With a Television Set?: The Legitimization of Television
Chapter 2: Jump Starting a Learning Process: The Ownership of TV Sets and Social Status
Chapter 3: Documenting Nature: TV and the Representation of Nature in 1980s China
Chapter 4: TV and the Other Modern Mass Media
Chapter 5: Providing More Choices?: Domenstic and Imported TV Dreamas and Gender Confusion
Epilogue: Continuity, Importation, Creation and the Chinese TV Industry

About the author

By Huike Wen

Product details

• Authors: Huike Wen
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781498525237
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2523-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Communication Studies, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Media studies: TV and society