CMNS 443 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissimilation, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Film Commission
22 Jun 2018
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CMNS 443 Oct 19
Proposal- will be returned 3 weeks
Midterm- all material all up to this week!
6-8 questions
3things:
long essay
3 components: definition of the concept, examples (3 major examples), explanation and then
your own opinion of the topic/idea/trend
Popular culture and the east Asian region
Overview: reviews theories of regional formation
Proposes a new way of looking at the east African that underscores the growing fragmentation
between urban and rural areas
Examines the specific role that popular culture plays in drawing east asia’s cities
Regionalism vs. regionalization
Regionialism: a conscious policy of states or sub-states regions to coordinate activities and
arranagements in the greater region
Regionalization:
An undirected, driven by market forces, that increases proximity among markets and
communities in three or more geographically proximate economies
Develops from the bottom up as a result of social processes
Characteristics of east Asian regionalization
1. Market driven and involves little formal institutionalization
a. Even though intra-east Asian trade has been growing rapidly, the level of
institutionali
b. Regionalization is centered on traslocal relations between cities and middle-class
consumers, rather than between nation states
The making of region
Cities
Cities are connected to other cities to an extent and at a unprecedented in history
Middle class
Their demand and support fuel the circulation of popular culture
Consumerism
Formulating economic, social and cultural values
Developments that have stimulated the transfer and consumption of cultural commodities
1. Most economies are becoming active partcipants in the regional economy of east asia
2. The rise of affluent middle class consumers
3. Sufficient dissemination of technological means of reproducing, accessing, and
consuming cultural content
4. Relaxation of political control over the flow and consumption of popular culture
(censorship)
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The asymmetry
Economic growth from 1956-1996 enhanced the living standard of people
The four developments have encouraged the transnational distribution of cultural products,
however
American influences
America culture are spread all over the world
They are consumed whenever the local income rise to a point when people can afford them
American music
Hollywood movies
Asian music
Chinese pop music (Mandarin and Cantonese)
Taiwan became the regional hub for mandarin popular music
Mandarin singers are supported
HK’s film productions and CEPA
The 1990s, HK films that involves kongfu (?) that attracted many Chinese viewers was
widespread though East Asia region
HK = third largest film industry in the world
CEPA= closer economic partnership arranagement – an agreement with HK and Mainland
China that was signed on December 13, 2011 and implemented from 2012
Japanese Music and Animation
Regional media alliance
Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon
Involved actors and staff all over East Asia from SK, China, HK, Japan, Thailand
Star TV- plays a mixture of popular shows from all over the world but in Asian languages
Piracy
Dissimilation of cheap reproduction and consumption device
Dvd, vcds, cds
Hard to restrict
This resulted in many unsupervised popular cultural commodities to flow in the market
The birth of east asia
Changing attitudes
To complete with cultural products from Hollywood, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanse and Korean
cultural industries produced a few cross cultural hits since the late 1990s
Tv remains primarily a national phenomenon in east asia and domestic
Take advantages of the joint consumption cost structure
Attributes attracting a wider audience and global viewers
They reduced imports and expanded exports into neighbouring regions in Latin America
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Document Summary
Midterm- all material all up to this week! 3 components: definition of the concept, examples (3 major examples), explanation and then your own opinion of the topic/idea/trend. Proposes a new way of looking at the east african that underscores the growing fragmentation between urban and rural areas. Examines the specific role that popular culture plays in drawing east asia"s cities. Regionialism: a conscious policy of states or sub-states regions to coordinate activities and arranagements in the greater region. An undirected, driven by market forces, that increases proximity among markets and communities in three or more geographically proximate economies. Develops from the bottom up as a result of social processes. Cities are connected to other cities to an extent and at a unprecedented in history. Their demand and support fuel the circulation of popular culture. Economic growth from 1956-1996 enhanced the living standard of people. The four developments have encouraged the transnational distribution of cultural products, however.
