Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China 9780824860660

Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past t

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Mainstream Culture Refocused: Toward an Understanding of Chinese Television Drama
Chapter One. Looking through the Negatives: Filmic-Televisual Intertextuality and Ideological Renegotiations
Chapter Two. Re-collecting “History” on Television: “Emperor Dramas,” National Identity, and the Question of Historical Consciousness
Chapter Three. In Whose Name? “Anticorruption Dramas” and Their Ideological Implications
Chapter Four. Beyond Romance: “Youth Drama,” Social Change, and the Postrevolution Search for Idealism
Chapter Five. Also beyond Romance: Women, Desire, and the Ideology of Happiness in “Family-Marriage Drama”
Chapter Six. Listening to Popular Poetics: Watching Songs Composed for Television Dramas
Epilogue: Intellectuals, Mainstream Culture, and Social Transformation
Notes
Glossary
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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