Asian Media Studies (eBook)

Politics of Subjectivities

John Nguyet Erni, Siew Keng Chua (Herausgeber)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
272 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-4328-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This groundbreaking collection of original essays provides new perspectives in Asian media studies. The volume covers a diverse range of topics from media policy to globalization, using lively examples from various countries and media.

Autor

John Nguyet Erni is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. He is author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS (1994); editor of a special issue entitled "Becoming (Postcolonial) Hong Kong" for Cultural Studies (2001); and co-editor, with Ackbar Abbas, of Internationalizing Cultural Studies (Blackwell 2004). Siew Keng Chua is Professor of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology. Her work in the fields of Asian media, gender studies, and cultural studies has been published in The Journal of International Communication, Jump Cut, and Cinemaya.

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Our Asian Media Studies? (John Nguyet Erni,
City University of Hong Kong and Siew Keng Chua, Nanyang
Technological University).

Part I: Moving In, Moving Out: Transnational Flows.

2. Discrepant Intimacy: Popular Culture Flows In East Asia
(Koichi Iwabuchi, International Christian University).

3. Hook 'em Young: Mcadvertising And Kids In Singapore (Siew
Keng Chua, Nanyang Technological University and Afshan Junaid,
Nanyang Technological University).

4. Techno-Orientalization: The Asian VCD Experience (Kelly Hu,
National Chung Cheng University).

Part II: Moving Backward, Moving Forward: Histories And
Politics.

5. The Struggle For Press Freedom And Emergence Of "Un-Elected"
Media Power (Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University).

6. "Forward-Looking" News?: Singapore's News 5 and the
Marginalization of the Dissenting Voice (Sue Abel, University Of
Auckland).

7. Beyond the Fragments: Reflecting On "Communicational"
Cultural Studies in South Korea (Keehyeung Lee, Yonsei
University).

8. Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular
History (Eric Kit-Wai Ma, Chinese University Of Hong Kong).

Part III: Moving Between: Formations Of Audiences And
Subjectivities.

9. The Whole World is Watching Us: Music Television Audiences in
India (Vamsee Juluri, University Of San Francisco).

10. From Variety Show To Body-Sculpting Commercials: Figures Of
Audience and the Sexualization of Women/Girls (Irene Fang-Chih
Yang, National Dong Hwa University).

11. Recuperating Malay Custom/Adat In Female Sexuality in
Malaysian Films (Gaik Cheng Khoo, Asia Research Institute).

12. The Formation of a Queer Imagined Community in Post-Martial
Law Taiwan (John Nguyet Erni and Anthony Spires, Yale
University).

Index.

Rezensionen

"With the publication of this volume, cultural studies begins to
speak with a multiplicity of Asian accents, marking an excellent
step towards meaningful and contrapuntal dialogues with those who
have Anglo-American accents in the era of globalization."

--Chin-Chuan Lee, City University of Hong Kong

"This book represents a coming of age of critical media studies
in Asia, and about Asia. Written by Asian authors who are attuned
to the hegemonic power of both Western media and Western paradigms
of media studies, this collection of essays outlays the complex
landscape of Asian media scholarship in one of the most dynamic
regions in the world today. What we find is that there are many
Asias, shaped by the intersections of power and subordination,
pessimism and optimism, hope and despair."

--Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney

"The mediascapes of Asia are among the most dynamic and exciting
in the world right now, and the most politically vital. This
absorbing collection does much more than explore the profound
changes occurring in the region as transnational media flows
intensify, different modes of historical and political
consciousness form, and new subjective realities take shape. In
doing all this with acuity and flair, it revitalizes media
studies."

--Meaghan Morris, Lingnan University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Communication & Media Studies • Cultural Studies • Kommunikation u. Medienforschung • Kulturwissenschaften • Media Studies • Medienforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-4328-2 / 1405143282
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-4328-8 / 9781405143288