Suchergebnisse

Why Japanese television now? / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Banishment of Murdoch's Sky in Japan: a tale of David and Goliath? / JungBong Choi -- "Ordinary foreigners" wanted: multinationalization of multicultural questions in a Japanese TV talk show / Koichi Iwabuchi -- The uses of routine: NHK's amateur singing contest in historical perspective / Shuhei Hosokawa -- Scaling the TV station: Fuji Television, digital development, and fictions of a global Tokyo / Stephanie DeBoer -- The dramatic consequences of playing a lover: stars and televisual culture in Japan / Eva Tsai -- Kind participation: postmodern consumption and capital with Japan's telop tv / Aaron Gerow -- Revolutionary girls: from Oscar to Utena / Noriko Aso -- Dream labor in dream factory: Japanese commercial television in the era of market fragmentation / Gabriella Lukacs -- Can't live without happiness: reflexivity and Japanese TV drama / Kelly Hu -- Becoming prodigal Japanese: portraits of Japanese Americans on Japanese television / Christine R. Yano -- Global and local materialities of anime / Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano -- Becoming Kikaida: Japanese television and generational identity in Hawaiʻi / Hirofumi Katsuno

Introduction -- From Doordarshan to Prasar Bharati: the search for autonomy in Indian television -- At home, in the world: the viewing practices of Indian television -- Between tradition and modernity: the development of an Indian community of television -- "Gandhi meet Pepsi": nationalism and electronic capitalism in Indian television -- Nikki tonight, Gandhi today: television, globalization, and national identity -- Conclusion: is there an Indian community of television?

In transcending territorial boundaries, satellite television has the potential to liberate viewers from government controls on national media. Why in the Middle East has this potential liberation yet to be fully realized? This book explores the development through the 21st century of cross-border television in the region, exploring issues at the heart of the international political economy of communication

Television truths (Argumentation of TV) -- Part I: Is TV True? (Epistemology of TV) -- The value chain of meaning -- Public address systems: time, space, and frequency -- Television and globalization -- Part II: Is TV a Polity? (Ethics/Politics of TV) -- Television, nation, and indigenous media -- A television republic? -- Reality and the Plebiscite -- Part III: Is TV Beautiful? (Aesthetics of TV) -- From a "Wandering Booby" to a Field of Cows: the television Live Event -- Shakespeare, Big Brother, and the Taming of the Self -- Sync or swim? Plebiscitary sport and synchronized voting -- Part IV: What Can TV Be? (Metaphysics of TV) -- "Laughs and Legends" or the furniture that glows? Televison as history -- Television in knowledge paradigms.