Watching Si Doel: Television, Language and Identity in Contemporary Indonesia - Couverture souple

Loven, Klarijn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9067182796 ISBN 13 : 9789067182799

Editeur : K.I.T.L.V., 2008

Synopsis

While television in today's world increasingly displays a global character, national television systems are still firmly rooted in a specific locality. But in what ways does this locality actually shape the content and performance of national television? What is the significance of local cultures and local languages in these processes of mediation? And how do the local, the national, and the global intersect in discourses of and discourse on television?
Taking a critical discourse analysis perspective, Watching Si Doel investigates these and related questions in the context of contemporary Indonesia. Starting from the nationwide popularity of the local television serial Si Doel Anak Sekolahan ("Educated Doel"), it examines the various ways in which the national government, Indonesian television producers, and local audiences shape, interpret, and struggle over the meaning of the phrase 'national television'. In doing so, the book explores what Indonesian television at the turn of the century sounds and looks like--and, significantly, ought to sound and look like--according to those who create and control television and those who watch and interpret it.
While providing insight into the production, nature, and reception of television discourse in general, this book particularly seeks to clarify the relationship between television, language, and power in late New Order and post-Soeharto Indonesia.
The dvd contains video excerpts from the sitcom Si Doel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Klarijn Loven (1972) studied Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania at Leiden University in the Netherlands and Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. After obtaining her PhD in December 2003, Loven lectured in Television Studies at the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam until she relocated to the United Kingdom in 2007. Her research interests include Asia, media, identity, and discourse. This book is a revised edition of her doctoral thesis (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: K.I.T.L.V.
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9067182796
• ISBN 13: 9789067182799
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible