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Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China - Tv Drama As Popular Media

English · Hardback

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This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

List of contents










Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revolution and TV Drama: The Uneasy Bedfellows in the Reform Era
Chapter 1: TV Dramas as Market Commodities, Cultural Artifacts and Social Practices
Chapter 2: Hybridising the Red Classics in Post-Mao China: The Production and Consumption Context
Chapter 3: From Chief to Chef: Remoulding Heroes
Chapter 4: Getting the Right Mix: Revolutionary Women and Contemporary Femininity
Chapter 5: Living Red: Production, Consumption and Local Memory of Revolutionary Culture in Linyi
Chapter 6 The Question of Faith in TV Drama Series
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography


About the author










Qian Gong is a Lecturer at Curtin University and convenor of the Chinese major program, as well as publishing regularly on Chinese media and popular culture. She was a journalist for China's national newspaper China Daily before she joined academia.


Summary

This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

Product details

Authors Qian Gong
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.11.2020
 
EAN 9781786609250
ISBN 978-1-78660-925-0
No. of pages 206
Series Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies
Media, Culture and Communicati
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries

Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

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