Peter C Pugsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 2287133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter C Pugsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pugsley |
| SIGNATURE | PUGSLEY P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7633-8575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Publics of interest and the death of the critic on Australian TV
This article charts a turning point in recent Australian broadcast television history, where enduring institutions of media criticism in popular formats rapidly disappeared from screens. We firstly situate media criticism and the roles of the 'television critic' within theoretical paradigms of Bourdieusian taste-making and publics of interest, before undertaking a close analysis of three case studies circa 2015. Examining Good Game, The Book Club…
Japanese High School Films
Looks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture Includes illustrated examples from dozens of films to show how they present a distinct style that draws intertextual references from Japanese manga, anime, TV and other forms of popular entertainment Uncovers the aesthetic markers of youth cultures found in the visual imagery and narrative drives of high school films Demonstrates how Japanese high school f…
Progressive moralities
Tamil film songs allow filmmakers a site beyond the regular narrative structure of their films to interrogate the cultural aspects of Tamil society. From the early 1970s, Tamil film songs began to address morality in gendered ways that provided relevant and contemporary cultural meanings for audiences. By the 1990s, these songs were established, opening up discussions around sexual promiscuity and, where necessary, side-stepping issues of censors…
The vulnerable nation in Japanese cinema
Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan) is a 2007 mockumentary that veers wildly across multiple forms of realism to incorporate full-blown farce. This paper examines the final scenes of the film to show how comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto’s debut film shifts through mockumentary and CGI kaigu (giant monster) genres to employ a tokusatsu (live-action special effects) coda that highlights Japan’s subservience to foreign powers and the very real threat of a regio…
Genre conventions in K-pop
This article analyses the 2015 music video for the song ‘Dope’ by South Korean ‘K-pop’ boy-band BTS, which had attracted over 200 million YouTube views by mid-2017. We contend that such K-pop music videos draw on established genre conventions to facilitate the global commercialization of their artists. These videos act as a platform to promote, legitimize, authenticate, and consolidate the artists’ place within the K-pop music industry, while fac…
Constructing the Hero
This article explores how, in times of crisis, Chinese journalism is still heavily influenced by the Maoist era in which the news media served as the mouthpiece for government propaganda. From the seasonal flooding of China’s great rivers to international controversies such as the 2001 US Spy-Plane incident, China’s state-controlled media has called upon a complex interweaving of Chinese ‘values’ incorporating them into a patriotic narrative of n…
Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema
From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, cinematic texts from the nations of Asia are increasingly capturing audiences beyond their national boundaries. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema explores the rise of popular Asian cinema and provides an understanding of the aesthetic elements that mark these films as 'Asian …
Tamil talk shows
The popular Indian television talk show, Neeya? Naana? ( You? or Me?), offers a public platform for open discussion of important issues facing citizens in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Through its inclusive nature and open discussion format, the programme demonstrates the gendered involvement of citizens from all sections of society, including the socially disadvantaged castes and classes. While this suggests that Indian television provides a…
The female protagonist and tobacco imagery in Spinning Gasing
This article examines images of smoking by female stars in Teck Tan's film, Spinning Gasing. It contends that the on-screen actions of female screen idols creates an aesthetic that reflects broader social, cultural and economic changes in Asia. In the light of a series of studies that indicate an alarming rise in the number of young Asian women becoming smokers, this article therefore draws attention to an area under-explored in media and film st…
Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world
Yash Raj Films is one of India's most successful film production studios with a massive global market. The influence of a powerful Indian diaspora provides film directors from the Bollywood stable of Yash Chopra (Yash Raj Films) with a wealth of international settings. These settings in turn provide a site for an assertive Indian nationalism based upon the adoption of cosmopolitan lifestyles. This paper examines three recent films, Khabi Kushi Kh…
The Rise of A 'Me Culture' in Postsocialist China
China’s ‘Generation Y’ are the first to grow up with computer technology and the Internet. More affluent and better educated than their parents, and often the only child in the family, they consider individuality a highly sought-after quality, which has given rise to a ‘me culture’ primarily concerned with self-expression and identity exhibition. Drawing from a combined content and discourse analysis in conjunction with personal interviews with C…
Singapore FHM
Transnational magazines have enjoyed enormous success with readers in Singapore in recent years. But what hurdles are faced by these syndicated magazines as they attempt to enter global markets? This article explores the difficulties of meeting audience demands while obeying strictly monitored rules set down by the state. Drawing from initial research into women's lifestyle magazines, this article turns to men's syndicated lifestyle magazines, in…
Postsocialist modernity
Jason McGrath, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, 320 pp., US$60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8047-5874-1 This timely book looks at a number of lesser-known Chinese cultural texts that emerged
Transglobal Economies and Cultures
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience
Utilizing Satire in Post-Deng Chinese Politics
Although China's institutional campaign against the Falun Gong has been closely observed and analyzed, researchers have failed to take note of the subversive power of satire utilized in the comic theatrical skits ( xiaopin) of popular comedian Zhao Benshan to ridicule the Falun Gong. This exemplifies the Chinese Communist Party's long-established political practice of "educating the masses." Based on an analysis of what are now commonly referred …
Emerging Powers of Influence
The focus of this study is the perceived influence of TV `anchors' (presenters) on Chinese television in the past 10 years or so, including the approaches and/or various institutional guidelines and disciplinary measures imposed by government departments and media institutions. Through the case of China Central Television (CCTV) and based on a theoretical framework that draws on the discourse of `news culture', the study explores the different ty…
Cultural Studies in China . Tao Dongfeng , Jin Yuanpu
Literary text as cross-cultural exchange
[T]he processes of cultural import and export have always been important. They can be interpreted generally as the spread of art and ideas, but there are often significant sociological variables in
Manufacturing the canon
Published as a chapter in: Construction work / Richard Nile, editor, with Denise Tallis, pp.89-103
The Rise of A 'Me Culture' in Postsocialist China
China’s ‘Generation Y’ are the first to grow up with computer technology and the Internet. More affluent and better educated than their parents, and often the only child in the family, they consider individuality a highly sought-after quality, which has given rise to a ‘me culture’ primarily concerned with self-expression and identity exhibition. Drawing from a combined content and discourse analysis in conjunction with personal interviews with C…
Genre conventions in K-pop
This article analyses the 2015 music video for the song ‘Dope’ by South Korean ‘K-pop’ boy-band BTS, which had attracted over 200 million YouTube views by mid-2017. We contend that such K-pop music videos draw on established genre conventions to facilitate the global commercialization of their artists. These videos act as a platform to promote, legitimize, authenticate, and consolidate the artists’ place within the K-pop music industry, while fac…
Constructing the Hero
This article explores how, in times of crisis, Chinese journalism is still heavily influenced by the Maoist era in which the news media served as the mouthpiece for government propaganda. From the seasonal flooding of China’s great rivers to international controversies such as the 2001 US Spy-Plane incident, China’s state-controlled media has called upon a complex interweaving of Chinese ‘values’ incorporating them into a patriotic narrative of n…
Singapore FHM
Transnational magazines have enjoyed enormous success with readers in Singapore in recent years. But what hurdles are faced by these syndicated magazines as they attempt to enter global markets? This article explores the difficulties of meeting audience demands while obeying strictly monitored rules set down by the state. Drawing from initial research into women's lifestyle magazines, this article turns to men's syndicated lifestyle magazines, in…
Utilizing Satire in Post-Deng Chinese Politics
Although China's institutional campaign against the Falun Gong has been closely observed and analyzed, researchers have failed to take note of the subversive power of satire utilized in the comic theatrical skits ( xiaopin) of popular comedian Zhao Benshan to ridicule the Falun Gong. This exemplifies the Chinese Communist Party's long-established political practice of "educating the masses." Based on an analysis of what are now commonly referred …
Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world
Yash Raj Films is one of India's most successful film production studios with a massive global market. The influence of a powerful Indian diaspora provides film directors from the Bollywood stable of Yash Chopra (Yash Raj Films) with a wealth of international settings. These settings in turn provide a site for an assertive Indian nationalism based upon the adoption of cosmopolitan lifestyles. This paper examines three recent films, Khabi Kushi Kh…
Emerging Powers of Influence
The focus of this study is the perceived influence of TV `anchors' (presenters) on Chinese television in the past 10 years or so, including the approaches and/or various institutional guidelines and disciplinary measures imposed by government departments and media institutions. Through the case of China Central Television (CCTV) and based on a theoretical framework that draws on the discourse of `news culture', the study explores the different ty…
Tamil talk shows
The popular Indian television talk show, Neeya? Naana? ( You? or Me?), offers a public platform for open discussion of important issues facing citizens in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Through its inclusive nature and open discussion format, the programme demonstrates the gendered involvement of citizens from all sections of society, including the socially disadvantaged castes and classes. While this suggests that Indian television provides a…
Postsocialist modernity
Jason McGrath, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, 320 pp., US$60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8047-5874-1 This timely book looks at a number of lesser-known Chinese cultural texts that emerged
Manufacturing the canon
Published as a chapter in: Construction work / Richard Nile, editor, with Denise Tallis, pp.89-103
Literary text as cross-cultural exchange
[T]he processes of cultural import and export have always been important. They can be interpreted generally as the spread of art and ideas, but there are often significant sociological variables in
Cultural Studies in China . Tao Dongfeng , Jin Yuanpu
Emerging Powers of Influence
The focus of this study is the perceived influence of TV `anchors' (presenters) on Chinese television in the past 10 years or so, including the approaches and/or various institutional guidelines and disciplinary measures imposed by government departments and media institutions. Through the case of China Central Television (CCTV) and based on a theoretical framework that draws on the discourse of `news culture', the study explores the different ty…
Transglobal Economies and Cultures
Playing to the World's Biggest Audience
Utilizing Satire in Post-Deng Chinese Politics
Although China's institutional campaign against the Falun Gong has been closely observed and analyzed, researchers have failed to take note of the subversive power of satire utilized in the comic theatrical skits ( xiaopin) of popular comedian Zhao Benshan to ridicule the Falun Gong. This exemplifies the Chinese Communist Party's long-established political practice of "educating the masses." Based on an analysis of what are now commonly referred …
The Rise of A 'Me Culture' in Postsocialist China
China’s ‘Generation Y’ are the first to grow up with computer technology and the Internet. More affluent and better educated than their parents, and often the only child in the family, they consider individuality a highly sought-after quality, which has given rise to a ‘me culture’ primarily concerned with self-expression and identity exhibition. Drawing from a combined content and discourse analysis in conjunction with personal interviews with C…
Singapore FHM
Transnational magazines have enjoyed enormous success with readers in Singapore in recent years. But what hurdles are faced by these syndicated magazines as they attempt to enter global markets? This article explores the difficulties of meeting audience demands while obeying strictly monitored rules set down by the state. Drawing from initial research into women's lifestyle magazines, this article turns to men's syndicated lifestyle magazines, in…
Postsocialist modernity
Jason McGrath, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2008, 320 pp., US$60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8047-5874-1 This timely book looks at a number of lesser-known Chinese cultural texts that emerged
Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world
Yash Raj Films is one of India's most successful film production studios with a massive global market. The influence of a powerful Indian diaspora provides film directors from the Bollywood stable of Yash Chopra (Yash Raj Films) with a wealth of international settings. These settings in turn provide a site for an assertive Indian nationalism based upon the adoption of cosmopolitan lifestyles. This paper examines three recent films, Khabi Kushi Kh…
The female protagonist and tobacco imagery in Spinning Gasing
This article examines images of smoking by female stars in Teck Tan's film, Spinning Gasing. It contends that the on-screen actions of female screen idols creates an aesthetic that reflects broader social, cultural and economic changes in Asia. In the light of a series of studies that indicate an alarming rise in the number of young Asian women becoming smokers, this article therefore draws attention to an area under-explored in media and film st…
Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema
From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, cinematic texts from the nations of Asia are increasingly capturing audiences beyond their national boundaries. Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema explores the rise of popular Asian cinema and provides an understanding of the aesthetic elements that mark these films as 'Asian …
Tamil talk shows
The popular Indian television talk show, Neeya? Naana? ( You? or Me?), offers a public platform for open discussion of important issues facing citizens in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Through its inclusive nature and open discussion format, the programme demonstrates the gendered involvement of citizens from all sections of society, including the socially disadvantaged castes and classes. While this suggests that Indian television provides a…
Constructing the Hero
This article explores how, in times of crisis, Chinese journalism is still heavily influenced by the Maoist era in which the news media served as the mouthpiece for government propaganda. From the seasonal flooding of China’s great rivers to international controversies such as the 2001 US Spy-Plane incident, China’s state-controlled media has called upon a complex interweaving of Chinese ‘values’ incorporating them into a patriotic narrative of n…
Genre conventions in K-pop
This article analyses the 2015 music video for the song ‘Dope’ by South Korean ‘K-pop’ boy-band BTS, which had attracted over 200 million YouTube views by mid-2017. We contend that such K-pop music videos draw on established genre conventions to facilitate the global commercialization of their artists. These videos act as a platform to promote, legitimize, authenticate, and consolidate the artists’ place within the K-pop music industry, while fac…
Progressive moralities
Tamil film songs allow filmmakers a site beyond the regular narrative structure of their films to interrogate the cultural aspects of Tamil society. From the early 1970s, Tamil film songs began to address morality in gendered ways that provided relevant and contemporary cultural meanings for audiences. By the 1990s, these songs were established, opening up discussions around sexual promiscuity and, where necessary, side-stepping issues of censors…
The vulnerable nation in Japanese cinema
Dai Nipponjin (Big Man Japan) is a 2007 mockumentary that veers wildly across multiple forms of realism to incorporate full-blown farce. This paper examines the final scenes of the film to show how comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto’s debut film shifts through mockumentary and CGI kaigu (giant monster) genres to employ a tokusatsu (live-action special effects) coda that highlights Japan’s subservience to foreign powers and the very real threat of a regio…
Japanese High School Films
Looks exclusively at high school films as valuable markers of contemporary Japanese culture Includes illustrated examples from dozens of films to show how they present a distinct style that draws intertextual references from Japanese manga, anime, TV and other forms of popular entertainment Uncovers the aesthetic markers of youth cultures found in the visual imagery and narrative drives of high school films Demonstrates how Japanese high school f…
Publics of interest and the death of the critic on Australian TV
This article charts a turning point in recent Australian broadcast television history, where enduring institutions of media criticism in popular formats rapidly disappeared from screens. We firstly situate media criticism and the roles of the 'television critic' within theoretical paradigms of Bourdieusian taste-making and publics of interest, before undertaking a close analysis of three case studies circa 2015. Examining Good Game, The Book Club…
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