Description
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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"Telemodernities is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship.... A fascinatingly detailed comparative study of lifestyle television in China, India, and Taiwan, the book seeks to decenter the normative modernity of the West, interrogating instead the role television plays in constituting and interpreting multiple 'modernities.'" -- Tilottama Karlekar * Feminist Media Studies *
"The scope of the book is expansive, covering all three aspects of media studies: production, content, and audience analysis. The thick description helps immensely with the goal of showing how modernities are interpreted, negotiated, and confronted in nuanced ways...." -- Yang Bai * International Journal of Communication *
"[Telemodernities] provides a convincing comparative and nuanced analysis of how lifestyle TV filters conflicting ideologies. . . . This book offers groundbreaking comparative work on South Asian television." -- Daniel Keyes * Critical Studies in Television *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822362043
Author Tania Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 476g
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"Telemodernities is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship.... A fascinatingly detailed comparative study of lifestyle television in China, India, and Taiwan, the book seeks to decenter the normative modernity of the West, interrogating instead the role television plays in constituting and interpreting multiple 'modernities.'" -- Tilottama Karlekar * Feminist Media Studies *
"The scope of the book is expansive, covering all three aspects of media studies: production, content, and audience analysis. The thick description helps immensely with the goal of showing how modernities are interpreted, negotiated, and confronted in nuanced ways...." -- Yang Bai * International Journal of Communication *
"[Telemodernities] provides a convincing comparative and nuanced analysis of how lifestyle TV filters conflicting ideologies. . . . This book offers groundbreaking comparative work on South Asian television." -- Daniel Keyes * Critical Studies in Television *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822362043
Author Tania Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 324
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 476g
