Shuyu Kong

Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China

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Produktbeschreibung

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of Chinäs media industry and the huge growth in social media, this book explores the emotional content and public discourse of popular media in contemporary China. It examines the production and consumption of blockbuster films, television dramas, entertainment television shows, and their corresponding online audience responses, and describes the affective articulations generated by cultural and media texts, audiences and social contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780415719896
• ISBN-10: 0415719895
• Artikelnr.: 39594895

Autorenporträt

Shuyu Kong is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Aftershock: The Sentimental Construction of Family in
Post-Socialist China 2. Crying your Heart Out: Laid-off Women Workers,
Kuqingxi, and Melodramatic Sensibility in Chinese TV Drama 3. Magic Cube of
Happiness: Managing Conflicts and Feelings on Chinese Primetime Television
4. Are You the One? The Competing Public Voices of Chinäs Post-1980s
Generation 5. Undercover: Internet Media Fandom and the Sociality of
Cultural Consumption 6. Let the Bullet Fly: Film Discussions and the
Cultural Public Sphere