MCLC: Signifying the Local

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Signifying the Local
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Here's a newly published book that list members might be interested in.

Signifying the Local: Media Productions Rendered in Local Languages in
Mainland China in the New Millennium
Brill, 2013.by Jin Liu
x, 318 pp.
ISBN13: 9789004259010
E-ISBN: 9789004259027

In Signifying the Local, Jin Liu examines contemporary cultural
productions rendered in local languages and dialects (fangyan) in the
fields of television, cinema, music, and literature in Mainland China.
This ground-breaking interdisciplinary research provides an account of the
ways in which local-language media have become a platform for the
articulation of multivocal, complex, and marginal identities in
post-socialist China. Viewed from the uniquely revealing perspective of
local languages, the mediascape of China is no longer reducible to a
unified, homogeneous, and coherent national culture, and thus renders any
monolithic account of the Chinese language, Chineseness, and China
impossible.

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter One A Historical Review of the Discourse of the Local in
Twentieth-Century China

Chapter Two An Overview of Television Series Productions in the 2000s

Chapter Three Alternative Translation: Performativity in Dubbing Films in
Local Languages

Chapter Four Empowering Local Community: TV News Talks Shows in Local
Languages

Chapter Five Ambivalent Laughter: Comic Sketches in CCTV's Spring Festival
Eve Gala

Chapter Six Popular Music and Local Youth Identity in the Age of the
Internet

Chapter Seven The Rhetoric of Local Languages as the Marginal: Chinese
Underground and Independent Films by Jia Zhangke and Others

Chapter Eight Multiplicity in Mainstream Studio Films in Local Languages

Chapter Nine The Unassimilated Voice in Recent Fiction in Local Languages

Conclusion

For further information see:

http://www.brill.com/products/book/signifying-local