Television Histories in Asia Issues and Contexts
Brand: Routledge
Description
This book presents an analysis of television histories across India China Taiwan Singapore Indonesia Japan Hong Kong the Philippines Malaysia and Bhutan. 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. | Television Histories in Asia Issues and Contexts
