1st Edition
Television in Post-Reform Vietnam Nation, Media, Market
By Giang Nguyen-Thu
Copyright 2019
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores Vietnamese popular television in the post-Reform era, that is, from 1986, focussing on the relationship between television and national imagination. It locates Vietnamese television in the experiences of everyday life and the prevailing network of power relations resulting from marketization and globalization, and, as such, moves beyond the clichéd assumption of Vietnamese... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
A note on diacritics and names
Introduction: Nation, television, and cultural government
1 Television dramas and the return of normalcy
2 Nostalgia for the new oldness
3 From socialist moralism to market ethics
4 Personal wealth, national pride
5 Collective wound, private healing
Conclusion: Fraternity without uniformity
References
Index
Biography
Giang Nguyen-Thu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is also an on-leave lecturer at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
