Asian media studies : politics of subjectivities / edited by John Nguyet Erni and Siew Keng Chua. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. - ix, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: our asian media studies? - I. Moving in, moving out: transnational flows - 2. Discrepant intimacy: popular culture flows in East Asia - 3. Hook 'em young: Mcadvertising and kids in Singapore - 4. Techno-orientalization: the Asian VCD experience -- II. Moving backward, moving forward: histories and politics - 5. The struggle for press freedom and emergence of unelected media power in South Korea - 6. Forward-looking news?: Singapore's news 5 and the marginalization of the dissenting voice - 7. Beyond the fragments: reflecting on communicational culture studies in South Korea - 8. Re-advertising Hong Kong: nostalgia industry and popular history -- III. Moving between: formations of audiences and subjectivities - 9. The whole world is watching us: music television audiences in India - 10. From variety shows to body-sculpting commercials: figures of audience and the sexualization of women/girls - 11. Recuperating Malay custom/adat in female sexuality in Malaysian films - 12. The formation of a queer-imagined community in post-martial law Taiwan - Index.

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Mass media--Asia.

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