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

Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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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