Asian Media Studies Politics of Subjectivities

John Nguyet Erni is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Communication, City University of Hong Kong. He is author of Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of “Curing” AIDS (1994); editor of a special issue entitled “Becoming (Postcolonial) Hong Kong” for Cultural Studies (2001); and co-editor, with Ackbar Abbas, of Internationalizing Cultural Studies (Blackwell 2004).

Siew Keng Chua is Professor of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology. Her work in the fields of Asian media, gender studies, and cultural studies has been published in The Journal of International Communication, Jump Cut, and Cinemaya.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: Our Asian Media Studies? (John Nguyet Erni, City University of Hong Kong and Siew Keng Chua, Nanyang Technological University).

Part I: Moving In, Moving Out: Transnational Flows.

2. Discrepant Intimacy: Popular Culture Flows In East Asia (Koichi Iwabuchi, International Christian University).

3. Hook 'em Young: Mcadvertising And Kids In Singapore (Siew Keng Chua, Nanyang Technological University and Afshan Junaid, Nanyang Technological University).

4. Techno-Orientalization: The Asian VCD Experience (Kelly Hu, National Chung Cheng University).

Part II: Moving Backward, Moving Forward: Histories And Politics.

5. The Struggle For Press Freedom And Emergence Of "Un-Elected" Media Power (Myungkoo Kang, Seoul National University).

6. "Forward-Looking" News?: Singapore's News 5 and the Marginalization of the Dissenting Voice (Sue Abel, University Of Auckland).

7. Beyond the Fragments: Reflecting On "Communicational" Cultural Studies in South Korea (Keehyeung Lee, Yonsei University).

8. Re-Advertising Hong Kong: Nostalgia Industry and Popular History (Eric Kit-Wai Ma, Chinese University Of Hong Kong).

Part III: Moving Between: Formations Of Audiences And Subjectivities.

9. The Whole World is Watching Us: Music Television Audiences in India (Vamsee Juluri, University Of San Francisco).

10. From Variety Show To Body-Sculpting Commercials: Figures Of Audience and the Sexualization of Women/Girls (Irene Fang-Chih Yang, National Dong Hwa University).

11. Recuperating Malay Custom/Adat In Female Sexuality in Malaysian Films (Gaik Cheng Khoo, Asia Research Institute).

12. The Formation of a Queer Imagined Community in Post-Martial Law Taiwan (John Nguyet Erni and Anthony Spires, Yale University).

Index.