Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong

Name: Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book focuses on how the identity categories of Hongkongers and mainlanders have changed in the 1990s and on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. > Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies and cultural identities and explores the role of television in the process of identity formation and maintenance. > Chapter 1 Identity, culture, and the media; Chapter 2 Mediating Hong Kong identity (I); Chapter 3 Mediating Hong Kong identity (II); Chapter 4 Outsiders on television; Chapter 5 Re-imagining Hong Kong identity; Chapter 6 Public voices/private anxieties; Chapter 7 The production of television culture; Chapter 8 Rethinking tel.