The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion : A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV.

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Main Author: Dong, Wei.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Critical Studies in Media and Communication Series
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Locating affect and emotion in reality TV -- 1.2 Overview of the chapters -- Chapter 2: Mass Media and Reality TV Formats in Post‐socialist China -- 2.1 Chinese economic reform and social transformation -- 2.1.1 Economic reform and the introduction of neoliberalism -- 2.1.2 "Socialism from afar" -- 2.2 The urban‐rural dual structure -- 2.3 Reform of the Chinese media system: between market and state -- 2.3.1 Marketization and transformation of the Chinese television industry -- 2.3.2 State control and ideological reconstruction -- 2.3.3 The "disjunctive media order" -- Chapter 3: The Turn to Affect and its Application to Reality TV -- 3.1 A brief history of emotions in Western and Eastern thought -- 3.1.1 Ideas of emotions in Western history -- 3.1.2 Ideas of qing (chinese情) in Chinese history -- 3.2 The different "affective turns" in the humanities and social sciences -- 3.2.1 Affect as bodily intensity -- 3.2.2 Affect as elemental state -- 3.2.3 Criticism and discussion -- 3.3 The social‐relational framework of affect and emotion -- 3.4 Understanding reality TV: relational affect as a critical optic -- Chapter 4: Reality TV Analysis: From Authenticity to Affect -- 4.1 The politics of emotional performance on reality TV -- 4.2 Negotiations of emotion display rules in (Chinese) reality TV -- 4.3 Emotional labor and affective capitalism -- 4.3.1 Affective economics as a new television marketing model -- 4.3.2 Emotional labor in late capitalism -- 4.4 The role of emotions in the audience experience -- 4.5 The affective turn in reality TV analysis -- Chapter 5: Researching Affect in Reality TV Text -- 5.1 Rethinking affect and social structure -- 5.2 Developing methods to analyze affects in reality TV. 
505 8 |a 5.2.1 Rethinking discourse analysis -- 5.2.2 Toward a multimodal textual and filmic analysis -- 5.3 Case selection and research design -- Chapter 6: Telling Stories, Swapping Lives -- 6.1 X‑Change (2006-08): "The miracle of ordinary people" -- 6.2 X‑Change (2012-15): "Strength from distant mountains" -- 6.3 X‑Change (2017-19): "Find yourself in the world of others" -- 6.4 Conclusion and discussion -- Chapter 7: Emotional Excess and Therapeutic Governance -- 7.1 Producing the money shot -- 7.2 Reprogramming with neoliberal psychotherapy -- 7.3 Moral pedagogy with Confucian family affection (qinqing) -- 7.4 Discussion and conclusion -- Chapter 8: The Politics of Suffering and Kuqing -- 8.1 Mediate suffering through positive energy and dream narratives -- 8.1.1 Articulating affect with the discourse of positive energy -- 8.1.2 The dream narrative -- 8.2 An invitation to empathy: visualizing kuqing -- 8.2.1 Ruptures in meaning‐making -- 8.2.2 The affective scenes of kuqing -- 8.3 Kuqing culture and the social pathos in a transitional China -- 8.4 The vanishing of Kuqing? -- Chapter 9: Conclusion and Discussion -- 9.1 Rethinking the cultural politics of Chinese reality TV and affect -- 9.2 From the Chinese experience to Chinese affective structure -- 9.3 Limitations and perspectives for future research -- Bibliography. 
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