Convergent Chinese Television Industries

This book provides a rich description of the shifting production cultures in convergent Chinese television industries, through the examination of daily production practices, showing how they embody a new set of opportunities and tensions across strategic, programming and individual levels. Lin argues that the current Chinese television landscape is an ideological, cultural and financial paradox in which China's one-party ideological control clashes with consumer-orientated capitalism and technological advancement. These tensions are finely poised between new opportunities for innovation and creative autonomy, and anxiety over political interference marked by censorship and state surveillance. Through its in depth study of ethnographic data across Chinese broadcast and digital streaming sectors (including CCTV, Hunan Broadcasting System, and Tencent Video), this book illuminates how Chinese producers have placed their aspirations for creative freedoms within technological advancements and rhetorical strategies, both demonstrating compliance with ideological control, and leaving room for resistance and resilience to one-party state ideology. Nuanced and timely, Convergent Chinese Television Industries unveils a complex picture of an industry undergoing dramatic transformations.

Provides a cutting edge portrayal of the shifting landscape of Chinese television industries Examines the paradoxical fears and creative freedoms manifesting through daily production practices Based on first-hand data in Chinese broadcast television and digital streaming services

Auteur

Dr Lisa Lin is a documentary producer and media scholar in the UK, Singapore and China. Her documentary credits include I Wouldn't Go in There WW2 Specials (National Geographic, 2015), G-Force (Hummingbird Music, 2016), Last Breath (One World Media, 2017) and Frontline Medics Dairies (Channel 4, 2020). Dr. Lin is a Research Fellow in Documentary Practice at Anglia Ruskin University. She holds a PhD in Media and Communications and MA in International Broadcasting from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Résumé

"Convergent Chinese Television Industries cuts into an ambitious topic with micro-level analysis, focusing on the production practices and strategies of producers at different levels of Chinese media institutions. ... Lin's book is a significant contribution to the literature about Chinese television production culture in the digital age. ... this book is excellent reading for students of Chinese media studies and production culture, particularly in terms of its research design, writing conventions and abundant empirical material." (Yajie Li, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 19 (1), 2024)

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Production Ecology in Chinese Television Industries.- Chapter 3. Convergent Production Strategies: CCTV and HBS.- Chapter 4. Digital Fiefdoms: The Rise of Chinese Internet-distributed Television.- Chapter 5. Production Cultures and Convergent Screen Forms: CCTV and HBS.- Chapter 6. Streaming Screen Forms and Aesthetics: Tencent Video.- Chapter 7. Walking a Tightrope? Producers' Fears and Precarity in China.- Chapter 8. Creative Freedoms and Autonomy in Convergent Chinese Television.- Chapter 9. Playing Edge Ball in the Grey Area.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Towards Technologically-Empowered Creative Freedoms in Convergent Chinese Television.

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