Qian Gong

Remaking Red Classics in Post-Mao China

TV Drama as Popular Media

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals how the story of revolution was reinvented to appeal and entertain a new generation and provides important clues to the understanding of transformation of class, gender and locality in contemporary China.

Produktdetails

• Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781786609250
• ISBN-10: 1786609258
• Artikelnr.: 60022215

Autorenporträt

Qian Gong is a Lecturer at Curtin University and convenor of the Chinese major program, as well as publishing regularly on Chinese media and popular culture. She was a journalist for China's national newspaper China Daily before she joined academia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Revolution and TV Drama: The Uneasy Bedfellows in the Reform
Era
Chapter 1: TV Dramas as Market Commodities, Cultural Artifacts and Social
Practices
Chapter 2: Hybridising the Red Classics in Post-Mao China: The Production
and Consumption Context
Chapter 3: From Chief to Chef: Remoulding Heroes
Chapter 4: Getting the Right Mix: Revolutionary Women and Contemporary
Femininity
Chapter 5: Living Red: Production, Consumption and Local Memory of
Revolutionary Culture in Linyi
Chapter 6 The Question of Faith in TV Drama Series
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography