Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

by Michael Curtin

Book Overview

In this provocative analysis of screen industries in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Michael Curtin delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that since the 1980s have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, the escalation of democracy movements, and the emergence of an East Asian youth culture. Reaching beyond national frameworks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520251342
• ISBN13: 9780520251342
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"