Remaking Red Classics in post-Mao China : TV drama as popular media /
"In the 1990s, China's economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high Socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama ada...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2021]
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| Series: | Media, culture and communication in Asia-Pacific societies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: revolution and TV drama: the uneasy bedfellows in the Reform Era
- TV dramas as market commodities, cultural artifacts and social practices
- Hybridising the Red Classics in post-Mao China: the production and consumption context
- From chief to chef: remoulding heroes
- Getting the right mix: revolutionary women and contemporary feminity
- Living Red: production, consumptin and local memory of Revolutionary culture in Linyi
- The questions of faity in TV drama series
- Conclusion.