Feeling Asian modernities
Subtitle: transnational consumption of Japanese TV dramas
By: edited by Koichi Iwabuchi.
Contributors: Iwabuchi, Kōichi, 1960-
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Television plays, Japanese; Foreign language television programs -- East Asia; Foreign language television programs -- Southeast Asia; Television -- Social aspects -- East Asia; Television -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia
Description: The recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedented, and not simply in terms of the range and scale of diffusion, but also of the intense sympathy many young Asians feel toward the characters in Japanese dramas, so that they cope with their own modern lives by emulating the lives on screen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Representation of femininity in Japanese television dramas of the 1990s -- Ito Mamoru; title: Empowering love : the intertextual author of ren'ai dorama -- Eva Tsai; title: Producing (post- ) trendy Japanese TV dramas -- Ōta Tōru; title: Ganbaru and its transcultural audience : imaginary and reality of Japanese TV dramas in Hong Kong -- Lisa Yuk-ming Leung; title: Desired form : Japanese idol dramas in Taiwan -- Yu-fen Ko; title: Traveling with Japanese TV dramas : cross-cultural orientation and flowing identification of contemporary Taiwanese youth -- Ming-tsung Lee; title: Defining Asian femininity : Chinese viewers of Japanese TV dramas in Singapore -- Elizabeth MacLachlan & Geok-lian Chua; title: Popular culture and youth consumption : modernity, identity and social transformation -- Ubonrat Siriyuvasak; title: Chinese re-makings of pirated VCDs of Japanese TV dramas -- Kelly Hu; title: VCD as programmatic technology : Japanese television drama in Hong Kong -- Darrell William Davis & Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh; title: Cultural contact with Japanese TV dramas : modes of reception and narrative transparency -- Dong-Hoo Lee; title: Korean American youths' consumption of Korean and Japanese TV dramas and its implications -- Jung-Sun Park -- Afterword,; title: Cultural intimacy of TV drama-- Ien Ang.