Wendy Su
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3870864 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wendy Su |
| NOMBRES | Wendy |
| APELLIDO | Su |
| FIRMA | SU W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Disorienting Politics
Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation
Between April and July 2021, a buzzword and the associated trendy lifestyle surfaced in mainland China amidst the ruling Party’s month-long extravagant celebration of its 100th anniversary. This buzzword and the associated lifestyle quickly became a ‘doctrine-ism’ that was particularly phenomenal amidst the overwhelming official discourse of patriotism and national rejuvenation. This buzzword is ‘lie Flat’ (tangping), and the associated doctrine-…
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed global media industries’ practices and altered audiences’ media consumption habits. The film industries have shortened theatrical windows and expanded streaming services to cope with this reality, which has accelerated the so-called digital distribution revolution. This study focuses on the transformation of China’s film distribution and exhibition sector before and during the pandemic. Specific…
From visual pleasure to global imagination
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 neg…
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions
"This book examines cross-regional film collaboration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy and industry, market and textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geographic, political, economic, and cultural relations. Issues covered include: cultural globalization and Asian regionalization; identity, regi…
A brave new world?—Understanding U.S.-China coproductions
The unprecedented growth in U.S.-China film coproductions and Chinese companies’ high-profile investment in Hollywood studios and U.S. cinemas signal a shift in global power relationships and a reshaping of the global media structure. Combining textual and document analysis with interviews of policy makers and film professionals in China and Hollywood, this article explores the implications of U.S.-China coproduction for global communication. The…
China's Encounter with Global Hollywood
In recent years, the film industry in the People's Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world. When the Chinese government introduced a new revenue-sharing system in 1994 the nation's total movie output skyrocketed with gross box office receipts totaling billions of yuan. This newfound box office success, however, has been built on an alternately competitive and collaborative relationship between the ascenda…
From culture for the people to culture for profit
This paper seeks to explore the internal driving forces behind the emergence and prosperity of China’s cultural industries. The paper traces the Chinese Communist Party’s radical transformation from stressing the class stand and ideological nature of culture to concluding with the concept of ‘cultural industries’ so as to expand an orthodox Marxist/Leninist/Maoist notion of culture. The Chinese party-state legalizes ‘cultural industries’ by exten…
Cultural Policy and Film Industry as Negotiation of Power
This article explores the global-local interplay by analyzing the changing role of the Chinese state and its evolving cultural policy during its engagement with global Hollywood from 1994 to 2012. It further investigates the impact of the state policy on the formation of a domestic film industry. Drawing on both Englishand Chinese-language sources and combining both primary and secondary empirical data, the article examines local strategies and r…
To Be or Not To Be?—China's Cultural Policy and Counterhegemony Strategy Toward Global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000
The study critically reviews China's cultural policy and counterhegemony strategy against global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000. The central argument is that the Chinese government's strategy of using the so-called main melody propagandistic films to battle against Hollywood from 1994 to 2000 is ineffective in terms of film market recouped and quality films produced, but may be considered partially successful in terms of the technological renovation…
New strategies of China’s film industry as soft power
Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation
Between April and July 2021, a buzzword and the associated trendy lifestyle surfaced in mainland China amidst the ruling Party’s month-long extravagant celebration of its 100th anniversary. This buzzword and the associated lifestyle quickly became a ‘doctrine-ism’ that was particularly phenomenal amidst the overwhelming official discourse of patriotism and national rejuvenation. This buzzword is ‘lie Flat’ (tangping), and the associated doctrine-…
From culture for the people to culture for profit
This paper seeks to explore the internal driving forces behind the emergence and prosperity of China’s cultural industries. The paper traces the Chinese Communist Party’s radical transformation from stressing the class stand and ideological nature of culture to concluding with the concept of ‘cultural industries’ so as to expand an orthodox Marxist/Leninist/Maoist notion of culture. The Chinese party-state legalizes ‘cultural industries’ by exten…
From visual pleasure to global imagination
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 neg…
New strategies of China’s film industry as soft power
Cultural Policy and Film Industry as Negotiation of Power
This article explores the global-local interplay by analyzing the changing role of the Chinese state and its evolving cultural policy during its engagement with global Hollywood from 1994 to 2012. It further investigates the impact of the state policy on the formation of a domestic film industry. Drawing on both Englishand Chinese-language sources and combining both primary and secondary empirical data, the article examines local strategies and r…
To Be or Not To Be?—China's Cultural Policy and Counterhegemony Strategy Toward Global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000
The study critically reviews China's cultural policy and counterhegemony strategy against global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000. The central argument is that the Chinese government's strategy of using the so-called main melody propagandistic films to battle against Hollywood from 1994 to 2000 is ineffective in terms of film market recouped and quality films produced, but may be considered partially successful in terms of the technological renovation…
To Be or Not To Be?—China's Cultural Policy and Counterhegemony Strategy Toward Global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000
The study critically reviews China's cultural policy and counterhegemony strategy against global Hollywood from 1994 to 2000. The central argument is that the Chinese government's strategy of using the so-called main melody propagandistic films to battle against Hollywood from 1994 to 2000 is ineffective in terms of film market recouped and quality films produced, but may be considered partially successful in terms of the technological renovation…
New strategies of China’s film industry as soft power
From culture for the people to culture for profit
This paper seeks to explore the internal driving forces behind the emergence and prosperity of China’s cultural industries. The paper traces the Chinese Communist Party’s radical transformation from stressing the class stand and ideological nature of culture to concluding with the concept of ‘cultural industries’ so as to expand an orthodox Marxist/Leninist/Maoist notion of culture. The Chinese party-state legalizes ‘cultural industries’ by exten…
Cultural Policy and Film Industry as Negotiation of Power
This article explores the global-local interplay by analyzing the changing role of the Chinese state and its evolving cultural policy during its engagement with global Hollywood from 1994 to 2012. It further investigates the impact of the state policy on the formation of a domestic film industry. Drawing on both Englishand Chinese-language sources and combining both primary and secondary empirical data, the article examines local strategies and r…
China's Encounter with Global Hollywood
In recent years, the film industry in the People's Republic of China has found itself among the top three most prolific in the world. When the Chinese government introduced a new revenue-sharing system in 1994 the nation's total movie output skyrocketed with gross box office receipts totaling billions of yuan. This newfound box office success, however, has been built on an alternately competitive and collaborative relationship between the ascenda…
A brave new world?—Understanding U.S.-China coproductions
The unprecedented growth in U.S.-China film coproductions and Chinese companies’ high-profile investment in Hollywood studios and U.S. cinemas signal a shift in global power relationships and a reshaping of the global media structure. Combining textual and document analysis with interviews of policy makers and film professionals in China and Hollywood, this article explores the implications of U.S.-China coproduction for global communication. The…
Asia-Pacific Film Co-productions
"This book examines cross-regional film collaboration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Through a mixed methods approach of political economy and industry, market and textual analysis, the book contributes to the understanding of the global fusion of cultural products and the reconfiguration of geographic, political, economic, and cultural relations. Issues covered include: cultural globalization and Asian regionalization; identity, regi…
From visual pleasure to global imagination
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 neg…
The platformization of China’s film distribution in a pandemic era
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally transformed global media industries’ practices and altered audiences’ media consumption habits. The film industries have shortened theatrical windows and expanded streaming services to cope with this reality, which has accelerated the so-called digital distribution revolution. This study focuses on the transformation of China’s film distribution and exhibition sector before and during the pandemic. Specific…
Lie Flat”– Chinese youth subculture in the context of the pandemic and national rejuvenation
Between April and July 2021, a buzzword and the associated trendy lifestyle surfaced in mainland China amidst the ruling Party’s month-long extravagant celebration of its 100th anniversary. This buzzword and the associated lifestyle quickly became a ‘doctrine-ism’ that was particularly phenomenal amidst the overwhelming official discourse of patriotism and national rejuvenation. This buzzword is ‘lie Flat’ (tangping), and the associated doctrine-…
Disorienting Politics
Law (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · China (7 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (6 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 obras) · Hollywood (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Economy (4 obras)