Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market

ISBN-13: 9780367584559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 164 str.

Giang Nguyen-Thu

Opis

This book explores television in the post-Reform era, especially the relationship between television and national imagination. It locates Vietnamese television in everyday life, examines new post-Reform views of socialism, discusses differing views of nationality and how these are being brought together.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.