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[ecrea] new book: Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia

Mon Sep 05 19:12:19 GMT 2016




*Telemodernities***

*Television and Transforming Lives in Asia***

/Tania Lewis,  Fran Martin & Wanning Sun/

"In this groundbreaking book Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun offer a highly nuanced account of television history in India, China, and Taiwan and of emerging Asian modernities, as well as a most welcome complication of the dominant theories of globalization and neoliberalism. Emphasizing the importance of location and the specifics of national and regional contexts for television, /Telemodernities/ has the potential to significantly change the conversation about media, modernity, and Asia."—Graeme Turner, author of /Re-Inventing the Media /

"Focused on the uncannily familiar-yet-strange world of Indian- and Chinese-language lifestyle television, this ambitious study asks what modernity is today, now that the engine room of global change has shifted decisively away from the West. Based on years of careful audience research, textual analysis and producer interviews, the answers are never less than eye-opening and, more often than not, mind-blowing. A revelation."—Chris Berry, King’s College London

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.

*Tania Lewis* is Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of Research in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University (Melbourne).

*Fran Martin* is Associate Professor and Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

*Wanning Sun* is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Technology Sydney.

Duke University Press

Console-ing Passions

August 2016 328pp 64 illus. 9780822362043 PB £20.99now only £16.79* when you quote CSL916TELE when you order

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