Mainstream culture refocused : television drama, society, and the production of meaning in reform-era China /
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 atte...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.