{"product_id":"telemodernities-9780822362043","title":"Telemodernities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun analyze the complex social and cultural significance of lifestyle television programming in China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, showing how it adds insight into late Asian modernity, media cultures, and broad shifts in the nature of private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTelemodernities\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable addition to a growing body of scholarship.... A fascinatingly detailed comparative study of lifestyle television in China, India, and Taiwan, the book seeks to decenter the normative modernity of the West, interrogating instead the role television plays in constituting and interpreting multiple 'modernities.'\" -- Tilottama Karlekar * Feminist Media Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"The scope of the book is expansive, covering all three aspects of media studies: production, content, and audience analysis. The thick  description helps immensely with the goal of showing how modernities are interpreted, negotiated, and confronted in nuanced ways....\" -- Yang Bai * International Journal of Communication *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eTelemodernities\u003c\/i\u003e] provides a convincing comparative and nuanced analysis of how lifestyle TV filters conflicting ideologies. . . . This book offers groundbreaking comparative work on South Asian television.\" -- Daniel Keyes * Critical Studies in Television *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Telemodernities  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lifestyle Television in Context: Media Industries, Cultural Economies, and Genre Flows  25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Local versus Metropolitan Television in China: Stratification of Needs, Taste, and Spatial Imagination  52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Here, There, and Everywhere: Mediascapes, Geographic Imaginaries, and Indian Television  82\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Imagining Global Mobility: TLC Taiwan  106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gurus, Babas, and Daren: Popular Experts on Chinese and Indian Advice TV  126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Magical Modernities: Spiritual Advice TV in India and Taiwan  157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Risky Romance: Navigating Late Modern Identities and Relationships on Chinese and Indian Lifestyle TV  196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. A Self to Believe In: Negotiating Femininities in Sinophone Lifestyle Advice TV  222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Negotiating Modernities through Lifestyle Television  254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406097654103,"sku":"9780822362043","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822362043.jpg?v=1730494517","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/telemodernities-9780822362043","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}