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Zhao, Jing (2020) The Chinese queer glocalisation of TV formats in the new millennium. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This thesis examines the concurrent arrival of a burgeoning queer televisual culture during the post-2000 boom in Chinese TV format adaptation and innovation. It focuses on contemporary Chinese provincial station-produced variety shows that are originally based on global TV formats. Drawing on global TV studies, global queering theory, Chinese feminist theories and media and cultural globalisation research, I develop a ‘queer-glocalisation’ framework to doubly debunk the static polarity prevalent in global queer and TV studies. My theoretical approach works to explore the complex ways in which multiple forces and factors associated with the ideologies and power struggles of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality and class, at both global and local levels, are intertwined and co-constitutive in this process. I present a critical analysis of the Chinese glocalisation of TV formats in three often queerly connotated variety genres: talk shows, reality TV and impersonation shows. Using specific case studies from each genre, I ask why and how certain formatted programmes have become a queer female ‘runway’, so to speak, yet sometimes also a worrying and ambivalent one. In addition, the paradoxes and promises of contemporary Chinese lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) culture in its conversations and contestations with local normative ideologies and global flows of TV and queer knowledge are also interrogated. By so doing, I construct a comprehensive thesis for understanding the ways in which queer meanings emerge, reside in, contribute to and flow through predominantly heteronormative, patriarchal public culture and mainstream spaces. Ultimately, my research in this thesis reveals a dual process of contemporary Chinese queer-glocalist TV culture that has been enacted by and is continually negotiating with both the dominant industrial, technological and social-political forces of mainstream Chinese society and the nonnormatively gendered and sexualised desires and tactics of TV producers, performers, celebrities and audiences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Television and gays -- China, Homosexuality on television, Lesbianism on television, Homosexuality and television -- China, Television programs for gays -- China, Queer theory -- China, Gender identity -- China | ||||
| Official Date: | June 2020 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Film and Television Studies | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Moseley, Rachel ; Schoonover, Karl | ||||
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| Extent: | viii, 377 leaves : illustrations | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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