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001 2013040187
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008 131120s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780415719896 (hardback)
020 $z9781315867243 (e-book)
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050 00 $aP92.C5$bK66 2014
082 00 $a302.23/0951$223
084 $aSOC008000$aSOC022000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKong, Shuyu.
245 10 $aPopular media, social emotion and public discourse in contemporary China /$cShuyu Kong.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $axiii, 154 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge contemporary China series ;$v117
520 $a"Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of entertainment culture and the extensive penetration of new media into the everyday lives of Chinese people. Against the backdrop of the rapid development of China's media industry and the huge growth in social media, this book explores the emotional content and public discourse of popular media in contemporary China. It examines the production and consumption of blockbuster films, television dramas, entertainment television shows, and their corresponding online audience responses, and describes the affective articulations generated by cultural and media texts, audiences and social contexts. Crucially, this book focuses on the agency of audiences in consuming these media products, and the affective communications taking place in this process in order to address how and why popular culture and entertainment programs exert so much power over mass audiences in China. Indeed, Shuyu Kong shows how Chinese people have sought to make sense of the dramatic historical changes of the past three decades through their engagement with popular media, and how this process is embodied in the "affective articulations" of popular culture products. Based on case studies that range from television drama to blockbuster films, and reality television programmes to social media sites, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society, media and communication studies, film studies and television studies. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aMass media$zChina.
650 0 $aMass media and culture$zChina.
650 0 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$zChina.
650 0 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zChina.
650 0 $aCommunication$zChina.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.$2bisacsh