Television in Post-Reform Vietnam

Nation, Media, Market

Bibliographic Data

ID19915401
AuthorsGiang Nguyen-Thu (0000-0002-0067-9223, corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-10-12
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTelevision in Post-Reform Vietnam (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315157382
OpenAlexW4246348774
Open LibraryOL39602943M
ISBN9781315157382
LanguageEN
Citations received5

This book explores Vietnamese popular television in the post-Reform era, that is, from 1986, focussing on the relationship between television and national imagination. It locates Vietnamese television in the experiences of everyday life and the prevailing network of power relations resulting from marketization and globalization, and, as such, moves beyond the clichéd assumption of Vietnamese media as a mere propagandist instrument of the party state. With examples from a wide range of television genres, the book demonstrates how Vietnamese television enables novel conditions of cultural oppression as well as political engagement in the name of the nation. In sharp contrast to the previous image of Vietnam as a war-torn land, post-Reform television conjures into being a new sense of national belonging based on an implicit rejection of the socialist past, hopes for peace and prosperity, and anxieties about a globalized future. This book highlights the richness of Vietnam’s current culture and identity, characterized, the book argues, by ‘fraternity without uniformity’

Political science · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Émissions télévisées · Ethnic Studies · General · History and criticism · Literature · Performing Arts · Reference · Social life and customs · Social Science · Television and state · Television programs · Vietnam

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