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Queer TV China: Televisual and Fannish Imaginaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Chineseness

內容簡介

內容簡介 The 2010s have seen an explosion in popularity of Chinese television featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQ-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines even as state regulations on “vulgar” and “immoral” content grow more prominent. This emerging “queer TV China” culture has generated diverse, cyber, and transcultural queer fan communities. Yet these seemingly progressive televisual productions and practices are caught between multilayered sociocultural and political-economic forces and interests.Taking “queer” as a verb, an adjective, and a noun, this volume counters the Western-centric conception of homosexuality as the only way to understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Chinese and Sinophone worlds. It proposes an analytical framework of “queer ing TV China” to explore the power of various TV genres and narratives, censorial practices, and fandoms in queer desire-voicing and subject formation within a largely heteropatriarchal society. Through examining nine cases contesting the ideals of gender, sexuality, Chineseness, and TV production and consumption, the book also reveals the generative, negotiative ways in which queerness works productively within and against mainstream, seemingly heterosexual-oriented, televisual industries and fan spaces.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Jamie J. Zhao is an assistant professor in media and cultural studies in the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong.

產品目錄

產品目錄 HKUP Spring 2023

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : Taking “queer” , counters the Western of homosexuality as the only understand nonnormative identities and same-sex desire in the Sinophone.