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The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion: A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV
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Abstract Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of "X-Change" (2006-2019), the author investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appro... view more
Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of "X-Change" (2006-2019), the author investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case primarily kuqing (bitter emotions) communicated by the material and the body - have the potential to challenge or exceed existing relations of power in the mediascape. The author shows how Chinese reality TV provides a historical and theoretical opportunity for understanding the affective structures of contemporary China in the dynamic process of fracture and integration.... view less
Keywords
system; media policy; post-socialist country; reality tv; sociology of communication; mass culture; television; affect tv; emotionality; China; media
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Broadcasting, Telecommunication
Free Keywords
Affect; Popular Culture; Society; Culture; Sociology of Media; Media Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
234 p.
Series
Critical Studies in Media and Communication, 28
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839462843
ISSN
2747-3937
ISBN
978-3-8394-6284-3
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed