Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia

by Yeoh Seng Guan (Editor)

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this book focuses on the ways in which different media forms have constituted cultural practices and power relations amongst particular audiences and publics. It also examines the ways in which technologies of varying scales and range have been appropriated for various subaltern purposes and counter-hegemonic agendas. Drawing upon recent case studies on the deployment of different media – including mainstream and independent films, television programming, black metal music, community rituals, political advertising, the internet, and artistic visual installations – it provides valuable insights into the complex, vibrant ways in which these different media forms have negotiated with the dominant cultural representations of Malaysian society. The book makes an important contribution to the emergent disciplines of media studies and cultural studies in Malaysia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135169275
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/2010
Series:	Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Yeoh Seng Guan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia. He has recently published book chapters in The Other Global City and Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities (both published by Routledge). He is lead editor of Penang and its Region: The Story of an Asian Entrepot.

Table of Contents

1. Consumers, Citizens and Copycat TV in Malaysia 2. Packaging the PM: The Art and Ideology of Political Advertising 3. The Dayak Festival as a Media Ritual of Nation Building 4. Civil Society use of Media and ICT: A Case Study of SOS Selangor Campaign 5. Running Cyburbia: Internet and Local Governance in Subang Jaya 6. Shame and the Fourth Wall: Some thoughts on an Anthropology of the Cinema 7. Through our own Eyes: Independent Dcumentary Flm-making in Malaysia 8. Reclaiming Hstory: The Plitics of Memory and Trauma in the Films of Amir Muhammad 9. Facing the Music: Music Subculture and ‘Morality’ in Malaysia 10. Malaysiatropia: The Art of Simryn Gill, Liew Kungyu and Wong Hoy Cheong