Television Histories In Asia: Issues And Contexts (Media, Culture And Social Change In Asia) - 9780415855365

This book presents an analysis of television histories across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, India and Sri Lanka. It offers a set of standard data on the history of television's cultural, industrial and political structures in each specific national context, allowing for cross-regional comparative analysis. Each chapter presents a case study on a salient aspect of contemporary television culture of the nation in question, such as analyses of ideology in television content in Japan and Singapore, and transformations of industry structure vis-à-vis state versus market control in China and Taiwan. The book provides a comprehensive overview of TV histories in Asia as well as a survey of current issues and concerns in Asian television cultures and their social and political impact.

• | Author: Jinna Tay, Graeme Turner
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jul 21, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415855365
• | ISBN-13: 9780415855365