Description: Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia, Hardcover by Lewis, Tania; Martin, Fran; Sun, Wanning, ISBN 0822361884, ISBN-13 9780822361886, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Publication Name: Telemodernities : Television and Transforming Lives in Asia
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Television / History & Criticism, Television / General, Popular Culture, Asia / China
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.6 Oz
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Wanning Sun, Tania Lewis, Fran Martin
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Console-Ing Passions Ser.
Format: Hardcover
