Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
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Author(s): Lewis, Tania
Sun, Wanning
ISBN No.: 9780822361886
Pages: 324
Year: 201609
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 159.52
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting time pressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining "feng shui" with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In "Telemodernities" Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyle-oriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twenty-first-century media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, "Telemodernities" uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.


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