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... The conclusion summarizes some of the central themes and major findings of this book, addressing key questions raised by the case studies. How does the impact and evolution of lifestyle TV in these sites speak to changing relationships between popular media, audiences, and social, moral...

... of lifestyle programming in China Taiwan, and India, as well as the cultural economy of genres and formats in these sites. Combining policy analysis with institutional and historical snapshots, interviews with industry staffers, and mapping of television schedules and ratings, we outline the political...

... Chapter 7 moves into the territory of love and relationships. In recent years, TV audiences in both China and India have been exposed to a growing number of reality and lifestyle shows focused on dating, marriage, parenting, and love relationships. While, like spirituality, the affective...

... in the transnational Sinophone world. The Chinese example analyzed in this chapter foregrounds the normative definition of adult femininity as an identity focused on familial care work. In contrast, an alternative subcategory of women’s lifestyle television, originating in Taiwan, centers on an emergent and idealized...

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... Chapter 2 is the first of three chapters that pivot around imaginative geographies, focusing on how people’s engagements with lifestyle television involve imagining place at a range of scales, from the perceived relation between regional localities and national metropolises to the relation...

... This chapter introduces the key conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contexts underpinning the book, and shows how lifestyle TV is implicated in broader transformations of individual identity and collective sociality in the region. It maps the social, cultural, and economic contexts...

... Chapters 5 through 8 offer in-depth analyses of specific examples of life advice television across three countries, providing insights into the ways in which transforming relationships between state- and market-led regulation of culture are played out in lifestyle TV’s representations...

... Chapter 4 extends the analysis of lifestyle television’s role in shaping imaginative geographies through a study of the U.S.-owned Travel and Living Channel—available in many countries across Asia—in Taiwan. Interviews with Taiwanese viewers suggest that one of the most notable impacts...

... elements shape both the genre(s) of lifestyle advice TV and the forms of identity it projects in these countries. India Taiwan religious television enchanted modernities nonsecular modernities supernatural beliefs consumerism and religion marketised spiritualisms ...

... triggered and spread identification with consumer lifestyles across the region due to cross-border watching. Commercials helped even out the time differences that existed among countries of the region and within Europe in an experience of virtual simultaneity. Television advertising did not simply encourage...

...Genres of History This chapter focuses on a quintessential genre of popular socialist fictional television in its first two decades: the historical adventure series. The argument is centered on two popular serials that exemplify broader aesthetic, social, and media policy trends of the 1960s...