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

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

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780824834173
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Popular Culture in Art

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction Mainstream Culture Refocused: Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama
  4. Chapter One Looking through the Negatives: Filmic-Televisual Intertextuality and Ideological Renegotiations
  5. Chapter Two Re-collecting "History" on Television: "Emperor Dramas," National Identity, and the Question of Historical Consciousness
  6. Chapter Three In Whose Name?: "Anticorruption Dramas" and Their Ideological Implications
  7. Chapter Four Beyond Romance: "Youth Drama," Social Change, and the Postrevolution Search for Idealism
  8. Chapter Five Also beyond Romance: Women, Desire, and the Ideology of Happiness in "Family-Marriage Drama"
  9. Chapter Six Listening to Popular Poetics: Watching Songs Composed for Television Dramas
  10. Epilogue Intellectuals, Mainstream Culture, and Social Transformation
  11. Notes
  12. Glossary
  13. Filmography
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index