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Author Curtin, Michael.

Title Playing to the world's biggest audience : the globalization of Chinese film and TV / Michael Curtin.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-323) and index.
Contents The Pan-Chinese studio system and capitalist paternalism -- Independent studios and the golden age of Hong Kong cinema -- Hyperproduction erodes overseas circulation -- Hollywood takes charge in Taiwan -- The globalization of Hong Kong television -- Strange bedfellows in cross-strait drama production -- Market niches and expanding aspirations in Taiwan -- Singapore : from state paternalism to regional media hub -- Reterritorializing star TV in the PRC -- Global satellites pursuing local audiences and panregional efficiencies -- The promise of broadband and the problem of content -- From movies to multimedia : connecting infrastructure and content.
Summary Delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, and the escalation of democracy movements. This book examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience.
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Subject Motion pictures -- China.
Motion pictures.
China.
Motion picture industry -- China.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures -- Taiwan.
Taiwan.
Motion picture industry -- Taiwan.
Television broadcasting -- China.
Television broadcasting.
Television broadcasting -- Taiwan.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Curtin, Michael. Playing to the world's biggest audience. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520251335 0520251334 (DLC) 2007004610 (OCoLC)82367899
ISBN 9780520940734 (electronic book)
0520940733 (electronic book)
0520251334 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520251335 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0520251342 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780520251342 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9781429494588 (electronic book)
1429494581 (electronic book)
9780520251335 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520251342 (paperback ; alkaline paper)