Mainstream culture refocused : television drama, society, and the production of meaning in reform-era China /
Zhong, Xueping, 1956-
Mainstream culture refocused : television drama, society, and the production of meaning in reform-era China / Zhong Xueping. - 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Mainstream culture refocused: toward an understanding of Chinese television drama -- Looking through the negative filmic-televisual intertextuality and ideological renegotiations -- Re-collecting "history" on television: "emperor dramas," national identity, and the question of historical consciousness -- In whose name? "Anticorruption dramas" and their ideological implications -- Boyond romance: "youth drama," social change, and the postrevolution search for idealism -- Also beyond romance: women, desire, and the ideology of happiness in "family-marriage drama" -- Listening to popular poetics: watching songs composed for television dramas -- Epilogue: intellectuals, mainstream culture, and social transformation.
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Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture.Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju's most important subgenres. "Emperor dramas" highlight the link between popular culture's obsession with emperors and modern Chinese intellectuals' preoccupation with issues of history and tradition and how they relate to modernity. In her exploration of the "anti-corruption" subgenre, Zhong considers three representative dramas, exploring their diverse plots and emphases. "Youth dramas'" rich array of representations reveal the numerous social, economic, cultural, and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth and its changing meanings. The chapter on the "family-marriage" subgenre analyzes the ways in which 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." Their sentiments range between nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era. The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China's post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation.Provocative and insightful, Mainstream Culture Refocused will appeal to scholars and students in studies of modern China generally and of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture specifically.
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Popular culture--China.
Television--Social aspects--China.
Television plays, Chinese--History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Popular culture.
Television plays, Chinese.
Television--Social aspects.
Fernsehspiel
Fernsehserie
Massenkultur
Meinungsbildung
Soziokultureller Wandel
Fernsehspiel--China.
Fernsehen--Gesellschaft--China.
Medien--China.
Fernsehen.
Drama.
Chinesisch.
Gesellschaft.
Massenkultur.
Tv-teater--historia--Kina.
Populärkultur--Kina.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Fernsehspiel
Fernsehserie
Massenkultur
Meinungsbildung
Soziokultureller Wandel
Fernsehspiel--China.
Fernsehen--Gesellschaft--China.
Medien--China.
Fernsehen.
Drama.
Chinesisch.
Gesellschaft.
Massenkultur.
Tv-teater--historia--Kina.
Populärkultur--Kina.
China.
China
China.
China
China.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PL2368.T44 / Z46 2010
791.45/70951
Mainstream culture refocused : television drama, society, and the production of meaning in reform-era China / Zhong Xueping. - 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.
Mainstream culture refocused: toward an understanding of Chinese television drama -- Looking through the negative filmic-televisual intertextuality and ideological renegotiations -- Re-collecting "history" on television: "emperor dramas," national identity, and the question of historical consciousness -- In whose name? "Anticorruption dramas" and their ideological implications -- Boyond romance: "youth drama," social change, and the postrevolution search for idealism -- Also beyond romance: women, desire, and the ideology of happiness in "family-marriage drama" -- Listening to popular poetics: watching songs composed for television dramas -- Epilogue: intellectuals, mainstream culture, and social transformation.
Use copy Open Access
Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping's timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although scholars tend to focus their attention on elite cultural trends and avant garde movements in literature and film, Zhong argues for recognizing the complexity of dianshiju's melodramatic mode and its various subgenres, in effect "refocusing" mainstream Chinese culture.Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju's most important subgenres. "Emperor dramas" highlight the link between popular culture's obsession with emperors and modern Chinese intellectuals' preoccupation with issues of history and tradition and how they relate to modernity. In her exploration of the "anti-corruption" subgenre, Zhong considers three representative dramas, exploring their diverse plots and emphases. "Youth dramas'" rich array of representations reveal the numerous social, economic, cultural, and ideological issues surrounding the notion of youth and its changing meanings. The chapter on the "family-marriage" subgenre analyzes the ways in which 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." Their sentiments range between nostalgia and uncertainty, mirroring the social contradictions of the reform era. The Epilogue returns to the relationship between intellectuals and the production of mainstream cultural meaning in the context of China's post-revolutionary social, economic, and cultural transformation.Provocative and insightful, Mainstream Culture Refocused will appeal to scholars and students in studies of modern China generally and of contemporary Chinese media and popular culture specifically.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2011.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780824860660 0824860667 0824834178 9780824834173 0824834690 9780824834692 9780824870010 0824870018
40018199531
22573/ctt62nk1q JSTOR 102975 Knowledge Unlatched
Popular culture--China.
Television--Social aspects--China.
Television plays, Chinese--History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Popular culture.
Television plays, Chinese.
Television--Social aspects.
Fernsehspiel
Fernsehserie
Massenkultur
Meinungsbildung
Soziokultureller Wandel
Fernsehspiel--China.
Fernsehen--Gesellschaft--China.
Medien--China.
Fernsehen.
Drama.
Chinesisch.
Gesellschaft.
Massenkultur.
Tv-teater--historia--Kina.
Populärkultur--Kina.
PERFORMING ARTS--Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
Fernsehspiel
Fernsehserie
Massenkultur
Meinungsbildung
Soziokultureller Wandel
Fernsehspiel--China.
Fernsehen--Gesellschaft--China.
Medien--China.
Fernsehen.
Drama.
Chinesisch.
Gesellschaft.
Massenkultur.
Tv-teater--historia--Kina.
Populärkultur--Kina.
China.
China
China.
China
China.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PL2368.T44 / Z46 2010
791.45/70951