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

*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

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