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Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series

Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series

Paperback

TelevisionTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9004221484
ISBN13: 9789004221482
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 14 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series has been granted the EastAsiaNet 2014 Award!

In Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series, Florian Schneider analyses political discourses in Chinese TV dramas, the most popular entertainment format in China today. Schneider shows that despite their often nationalistic stories of glorious emperors and courageous officials, such programmes should not be mistaken for official propaganda. Instead, the highly didactical messages of such series are the outcome of complex cultural governance practices, which are influenced by diffuse political interests, commercial considerations, viewing habits, and ideological assumptions. Schneider argues that these interlinking factors lead to a highly restrictive creative environment and to conservative entertainment content that ultimately risks creating precisely the kind of passive masses that Chinese media workers and government officials are trying so hard to emancipate.

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