1st Edition
Performing Fear in Television Production Practices of an Illiberal Democracy
By Siao Yuong Fong
Copyright 2022
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power. Turning to the lived everyday of media producers in Singapore, this book... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter One: Fear and the fragility of myths, Chapter Two: Playing games with heritage, Chapter Three: Drama writing and audiences as affective super addressee, Chapter Four: Producing art, producing difference, Chapter Five: Making Reality TV, Reflections
Biography
Siao Yuong Fong joined Lancaster University as Lecturer of Global Media and Inequality in September 2021 and works at the intersections of Media and Cultural Studies, Production Studies and Asian Studies. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
