From visual pleasure to global imagination

Chinese youth’s reception of Hollywood films

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7529271
AutoresWendy Su (Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen31
Número6
Páginas520-535
Fecha de publicación2021-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAsian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0129-2986 • E-ISSN: 1742-0911
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01292986.2021.1970202
OpenAlexW3215268642
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas22

Employing empirical focus group research and drawing on transnational audience studies, this article investigates the consumption and reception of American films by Chinese college students. The article argues that Hollywood films satisfy the Chinese audience’s need for entertainment, visual pleasure, and escape from the restraints and hardships of daily life. In addition, Chinese audiences’ reception of Hollywood films functions as a site of negotiation of different political and cultural values. Hollywood films evoke Chinese youth’s global imagination, trigger their reflection on and debate over their own culture and society, and inspire a collective desire for alternative modernities and an alternative way of life. Chinese audiences engage in a process of civic participation by actively debating and contemplating a functional and ideal society and value system, bringing in agency that is crucial to audience studies

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Entertainment · Hollywood · Media studies · Negotiation · Pleasure · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology