Signifying the Local

Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in Mainland China in the New Millennium
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25901-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: China Studies

In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China. This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the ways in which local-language media have become a platform for the articulation of multivocal, complex, and marginal identities in post-socialist China. Viewed from the uniquely revealing perspective of local languages, the mediascape of China is no longer reducible to a unified, homogeneous, and coherent national culture, and thus renders any monolithic account of the Chinese language, Chineseness, and China impossible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, Jin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local in Twentieth-Century China
Chapter Two An Overview of Television Series Productions in the 2000s
Chapter Three Alternative Translation: Performativity in Dubbing Films in Local Languages
Chapter Four Empowering Local Community: TV News Talks Shows in Local Languages
Chapter Five Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV's Spring Festival Eve Gala
Chapter Six Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the Internet
Chapter Seven The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others
Chapter Eight Multiplicity in Mainstream Studio Films in Local Languages
Chapter Nine The Unassimilated Voice in Recent Fiction in Local Languages
Conclusion
Film, Video, and Audio Sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jin Liu, Ph.D. (Cornell, 2008), is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has published in journals including positions (forthcoming), Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese. She co-edited Chinese Under Globalization: Emerging Trends in Language Use in China (2012)