[Commlist] New Book on an ethnography of authoritarian media production

Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong is pleased to share the publication of my first 
book Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal 
Democracy (Amsterdam University Press, 2022). It is based on an 
immersive ethnography of television production in Singapore, and I use 
it to speak towards debates about authoritarian media making. You can 
find the table of contents and introduction chapter here 
<https://www.academia.edu/88822821/Performing_Fear_in_Television_Production_Practices_of_an_illiberal_democracy_TOC_and_Intro>: 


Blurb:

Performing Fear in Television Production
Practices of an Illiberal Democracy
 What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist 
democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in 
authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong 
states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the 
state and sustain myths about their absolute power.

Turning to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore, I pose a 
series of questions that explore what it takes to perpetuate 
authoritarian resilience in the mass media. How, in what terms and 
through what means, does a politically stable illiberal Asian state like 
Singapore formulate its dominant imaginary of social order? What are the 
television production practices that perform and instantiate the social 
imaginary, and who are the audiences that are conjured and performed in 
the process? What are the roles played by imagined audiences in 
sustaining authoritarian resilience in the media? If, as I will argue in 
the book, audiences function as the central problematic that engenders 
anxieties and self-policing amongst producers, can the audience become a 
surrogate for the authoritarian state?


If it is of interest to your research or teaching, or of interest to 
your University library, the links are here for hardback 
<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724579/performing-fear-in-television-production> 
and ebook 
<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555604/performing-fear-in-television-production>.

Hardback: 
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463724579/performing-fear-in-television-production 


Ebook: 
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048555604/performing-fear-in-television-production


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