ANT322H1 Lecture Notes - 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, Culture Industry
Document Summary
Since the 1980s, popular cultural products have criss-crossed the national borders of east asian countries, enabling a discursive construction of an east. Asian popular culture" as an object of analysis. The present essay is a preliminary attempt to provide some conceptual and analytic shape to this object, delineated by its three constitutive elements of production, distribution and consumption. Each east asian location participates in different and unequal levels in each of these component processes. Consumption and thus consumers are geographically located within cultural spaces in which they are embedded. Meanings and viewing pleasures are generated within the local cultures of specific audience. Conceptually, among the several possible consumption positions, the one in which an audience watches an imported programme is most intriguing. In this viewing position, differences between the cultures of the location of consumption and that of the production location become most apparent.
