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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459668003321

Titolo

Feeling Asian modernities [[electronic resource] ] : transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas / / edited by Koichi Iwabuchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-70419-2

9786612704192

988-220-130-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IwabuchiKōichi <1960->

Disciplina

791.4570952

Soggetti

Television plays, Japanese

Foreign language television programs - East Asia

Foreign language television programs - Southeast Asia

Television - Social aspects - East Asia

Television - Social aspects - Southeast Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Note on Japanese Names; Introduction: Cultural Globalization and Asian Media Connections; 1 The Representation of Femininity in Japanese Television Dramas of the 1990s; 2 Empowering Love: The Intertextual Author of Ren'ai Dorama; 3 Producing (Post-)Trendy Japanese TV Dramas; 4 Ganbaru and Its Transcultural Audience: Imaginary and Reality of Japanese TV Dramas in Hong Kong; 5 The Desired Form: Japanese Idol Dramasin Taiwan; 6 Traveling With JapaneseTV Dramas: Cross-cultural Orientation and Flowing Identification of Contemporary Taiwanese Youth

7 Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese Viewers of Japanese TV Dramas in Singapore8 Popular Culture andYouth Consumption: Modernity, Identity and Social Transformation; 9 Chinese Re-makings of Pirated VCDs of Japanese TV Dramas; 10 VCD as ProgrammaticTechnology:Japanese Television Drama in Hong Kong; 11 Cultural Contact With Japanese TV Dramas: Modes of Reception and Narrative Transparency; 12 Korean American Youths' Consumption of Korean and Japanese TV Drama and



Its Implications; The Cultural Intimacy of TV Drama; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they cope with their own modern lives by emulating the lives on screen.